Oregon restaurant manager Charlize Theron, prone to submissive promiscuity and self-inflicted violence, sits naked in bed next to her lover….
Chuck Close calls them the mascots of the art world. Christo and Jeanne-Claude once offered them a drawing in exchange…
Coming down from the Saturday sugar rush of his 2006 comedy Duck Season, Mexican auteur Fernando Eimbcke’s lovely, Yucatán-set dramedy…
Each new superfluous Jennifer Aniston rom-com is already met with low expectations, but add some overcooked, middlebrow Indiewood quirk (skydiving…
Gary Hustwit name-checks his stylish 2007 typography doc Helvetica in this second film of a proposed nerd-porn trilogy, a slickly…
Science fiction easily lends itself to allegory, but while the dystopian near-future of co-writer/director Alex Rivera’s feature debut focuses, admirably,…
“I’m fascinated by giganticness,” reveals Santa-bearded mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar, whose compulsive, nearly half-century-long mission to create candy-colored mazes of…
There’s no kind of wonderful in Mary Stuart Masterson’s directorial debut, yet however slight her ensemble drama—about two distressed families…
Can a heartwarming meet-cute as unambitious and overtly sentimental as Last Chance Harvey be simply too nice to get beat…
“People who grin all the time, you never know what they’re up to,” says a friend of beer-guzzling, porn-watching, hardcore-show-attending,…
If your ears perk up at the mere mention of a fourth Evil Dead movie, or you tune in to…
While some may snicker at “graphic novel” as a term for comic books that take themselves too seriously, the French…
As an escape from the Hollywood machine that hired him for products like Maid in Manhattan and Last Holiday, filmmaker…
The three-part, fuming, World War II bummer The Human Condition (1959-61)—considered the magnum opus of socially critical Japanese filmmaker Masaki…
Septuagenarian Czech filmmaker Jirí Menzel’s latest boasts the same darkly sarcastic and lyrically absurdist trademarks that fellow Czech New Wavers…
In the post–Pulp Fiction ’90s, one could throw a rock at random and hit a two-bit Quentin Tarantino knockoff—all chatty…
Vagrants apparently don’t need a home address to feel a patriotic duty to their homeland, or so attests Susan Koch’s…
At 76, Japanese writer-director Yoji Yamada is still best known in his homeland for a one-time Guinness Book record-holding series…
Impassioned lefties John Cusack, cult novelist Mark Leyner, and Bulworth scribe Jeremy Pikser co-wrote this ineffectual Iraq War farce, which…
“My name is Tracey Berkowitz. Fifteen. Just a normal girl who hates herself.” Again leading as a deadpan, snarky,…
