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The Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day: Shoot, Kill, Pray
Filmmaker Troy Duffy certainly makes an easy target—at least his former friends thought so when they made the…
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Cirque du Freak: The Vampires Assistant: The Movie, Yes, Is in Need of Assistance
The vampire trend continues, but the only authentic bloodsuckers in Cirque du Freak are its producers and studio…
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Loren Cass: Like a Teenage Bukowski in Florida
Chris Fuller’s powerfully unsettling debut—written in 1997 when the director was just 15—is a starkly lyrical portrait of…
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The Burning Plain: Charlize Theron Is Lost in a Jigsaw Puzzle
Oregon restaurant manager Charlize Theron, prone to submissive promiscuity and self-inflicted violence, sits naked in bed next to…
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PICK Herb & Dorothy: You Dont Have to Be Fancy to Collect Good Art
Chuck Close calls them the mascots of the art world. Christo and Jeanne-Claude once offered them a drawing…
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PICK Lake Tahoe: Deadpan Doings in Mexico
Coming down from the Saturday sugar rush of his 2006 comedy Duck Season, Mexican auteur Fernando Eimbcke’s lovely,…
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Management: Oh, Jennifer Aniston, We Tried to Warn You
Each new superfluous Jennifer Aniston rom-com is already met with low expectations, but add some overcooked, middlebrow Indiewood…
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Objectified: Yes, Design Is a Product
Gary Hustwit name-checks his stylish 2007 typography doc Helvetica in this second film of a proposed nerd-porn trilogy,…
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Sleep Dealer: Welcome to El Matrix
Science fiction easily lends itself to allegory, but while the dystopian near-future of co-writer/director Alex Rivera’s feature debut…
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In a Dream: Obscure Artist Gets Lost in Process
“I’m fascinated by giganticness,” reveals Santa-bearded mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar, whose compulsive, nearly half-century-long mission to create candy-colored…
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The Cake Eaters: An Awkward Family Homecoming
There’s no kind of wonderful in Mary Stuart Masterson’s directorial debut, yet however slight her ensemble drama—about two…
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Last Chance Harvey: Emma Thompson Can Do No Wrong
Can a heartwarming meet-cute as unambitious and overtly sentimental as Last Chance Harvey be simply too nice to…
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Late Bloomer: A Different Kind of Serial Killer
“People who grin all the time, you never know what they’re up to,” says a friend of beer-guzzling,…
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My Name Is Bruce: B-Movie Icon Lampoons Himself
If your ears perk up at the mere mention of a fourth Evil Dead movie, or you tune…
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PICK Fear(s) of the Dark: All Cartoons, All Scary
While some may snicker at “graphic novel” as a term for comic books that take themselves too seriously,…
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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: The Welcome Return of Wayne Wang to His Indie Roots
As an escape from the Hollywood machine that hired him for products like Maid in Manhattan and Last…
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The Human Condition: Part I: War Is Hell, Over and Over and Over Again
The three-part, fuming, World War II bummer The Human Condition (1959-61)—considered the magnum opus of socially critical Japanese…
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PICK I Served the King of England: Making a Mockery of European Fascism
Septuagenarian Czech filmmaker Jirí Menzel’s latest boasts the same darkly sarcastic and lyrically absurdist trademarks that fellow Czech…
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Hell Ride: Enough With the B-movie Homages Already!
In the post–Pulp Fiction ’90s, one could throw a rock at random and hit a two-bit Quentin Tarantino…
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Kicking It: Homeless Athletes on the Soccer Pitch
Vagrants apparently don’t need a home address to feel a patriotic duty to their homeland, or so attests…