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  SIFF Week 2: 20 New Picks & Pans

  By Seattle Weekly Critics

  WEDNESDAY, MAY 23 Unforgivable/6:30 p.m., Harvard Exit Unforgivable? Interminable is more like it. Veteran writer/director André... More >>

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  First Position: The Ardors of Dance

  By Nick Schager

  The nonfiction formula pioneered by Spellbound leads to frustrating superficiality in this glossy documentary about a multicultural collection of... More >>

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  Headhunters: Art Theft and Murder in Norway

  By Michael Atkinson

  Arguably the strangest of the many recent Scandinavian movies to rifle through modern American-indie tropes and then cash in by getting bought up... More >>

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  Hit So Hard: Meet Hole (and Heroin) Survivor Patty Schemel

  By Camille Dodero

  In the drug-addicted annals of monster-rock band Hole's lady legacy, there's the one who died (bassist Kristen Pfaff), the one whose husband died... More >>

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  Post Mortem: A Harrowing Drama of Pinochet-Era Chile

  By Melissa Anderson

  "Nobody can escape the wheel of history," a physician says in Pablo Larraín's devastating follow-up to Tony Manero (2008). That film, a... More >>

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  SIFF: Innocence and Experience

  By Brian Miller

  You'll find two main varieties of SIFFgoers at the Seattle International Film Festival, now in its 38th year. First are the savvy veterans,... More >>

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  SIFF: A Q&A With Lynn Shelton

  By Brian Miller

  It's quite the honor to be selected as SIFF's opening-night feature, particularly when Lynn Shelton's Your Sister's Sister is the first genuinely... More >>

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  SIFF: Rick Stevenson's 10-Year Documentary

  By Sean Axmaker

  If the documentary The 5,000 Days Project: Two Brothers, which follows its subjects over the span of 10 years, makes you think of the British... More >>

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  SIFF: Week 1 Picks & Pans

  By Seattle Weekly Critics

  THURSDAY, MAY 17 [PICK] Your Sister's Sister/7 p.m., McCaw Hall For decades, it seems, Seattle's tiny film community has been waiting for The... More >>

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  Battleship: Liam Neeson Versus the Aliens

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Every once in a while, a movie comes along that's so utterly shameless, it achieves a certain grandeur. Peter Berg's Battleship, which I swear to... More >>

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  Bernie: Jack Black in a True-Life Texas Crime Story

  By Nick Pinkerton

  The script for Bernie was in part dictated from the stand: In a 1997 murder trial in Carthage, Texas, Bernhardt "Bernie" Tiede, a closeted... More >>

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  The Dictator: Sacha Baron Cohen Attempts Scripted Comedy

  By Karina Longworth

  Admiral General Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen), dictator of the fictional North African nation Wadiya, travels to New York to defend Wadiya's... More >>

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  Mansome: Morgan Spurlock's Shallow Grooming Doc

  By Nick Pinkerton

  "I think that men are having an identity crisis, but they don't really know it." So says "biological anthropologist" Helen Fisher, speaking in... More >>

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  What to Expect When You're Expecting: Cameron Diaz (and Others) Get Knocked Up

  By Eric Hynes

  Heidi Murkoff's mega-bestselling mommy manual actually makes perfect sense as a vehicle for a contemporary Hollywood ensemble comedy. For an... More >>

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  The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: Brits out of Water

  By Nick Pinkerton

  The British have practically cornered the multiplex's senior demo (think Waking Ned Devine and Calendar Girls) and look to be continuing the run... More >>

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