Autobiographical drama “Infinitely Polar Bear” tells a family story with some sweetness and warmth. But when the film’s bookending, it’s-all-good voiceovers and sporadically nostalgic tone are held in ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

We veer close to the edge of Precious, Indie-Hipster Clich– every so often in “Infinitely Polar Bear,” but thanks to a gifted filmmaker and two brilliant lead performances, the voice-over narration ...

Some movies are worth watching for what they attempt, not necessarily what they accomplish. Infinitely Polar Bear is filled with good intentions. This thoughtful story — of a emotionally challenged ...

Patt Morrison and KPCC film critics Lael Loewenstein, Andy Klein, and Charles Solomon review this week’s new releases including “Inside Out,” “Dope,” “Infinitely Polar Bear,” and more. TGI-Filmweek!

Whenever I watch a movie or TV show where one or more of the characters is “afflicted” with mental illness, I do so with both caution and cynicism. I brace myself for what often seems like an ...

In 1978, when writer-director Maya Forbes was 10 years old, her mother went away to graduate school, leaving Forbes and her little sister in the care of their mentally ill dad. The girls, and even ...

Cam Stuart (Mark Ruffalo) would be good company if he could just dial himself down. But he can’t. So when he offers a neighbor help with carrying her groceries, she can’t close her door in his face ...

Zoe Saldana to Join Mark Ruffalo in Infinitely Polar BearWe’re also hearing rumblings that she’s clearing her schedule for another ‘Star Trek’ right after this marital drama.

Set in the late 1970s, Maya Forbes' new movie stars Mark Ruffalo as a bipolar Boston dad who takes dubious custody of his two young daughters while their mom, played by Zoe Saldana, gets her MBA in ...

Mark Ruffalo is the kind of actor who doesn't typically disappear into a role, and you wouldn't want him to either. Most people first became aware of him in Kenneth Lonergan's You Can Count On Me, in ...