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On Demand picks

September 1, 2011

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I.Q. (Max on Comcast) An improbably endearing romantic fairy tale about Albert Einstein playing matchmaker, hitching his brainy niece (Meg Ryan) to the garage mechanic (Tim Robbins) who loves her. The leads, especially Walter Matthau’s Einstein, are winning, and director Fred Schepisi’s ability to bring the same sweetness that he brought to “Roxanne’’ makes it work. (PG; runs through Sept. 15)

M*A*S*H (Max on Comcast) Robert Altman’s 1970 film isn’t nearly as nice as the hit TV series it spawned. Altman’s episodic look at an unruly army medical unit in Korea is black comedy, more sadistic than placating as Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Sally Kellerman, Robert Duvall et al. take the service comedy into new frontiers of cruel hilarity and tough existential farce. (PG; runs through Sept. 15)

THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK (Max on Comcast) Lots of thump, lurch, and wham in what seems not a sequel but a DNA replicant of Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster, with more and better dinosaurs and even less plot and character. The dinosaurs are the stars, of course, and the visual sequences involving them are spectacular. (PG-13; runs through Sept. 15)

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