Of the 40,000 thoroughbreds foaled in the United States annually, only 20 make the regal two-minute run that is the…
Fitzcarraldo hoisted a steamboat over a Peruvian mountain so that a tiny village could experience opera. Not literally as high-reaching…
A nonjudgmental re-creation of 25-year-old Mark David Chapman’s 1980 assassination of the peacenik pop star—from three months prior to the…
Living alone in the dilapidated Hesbjerg Castle he purchased more than 40 years ago, octogenarian bachelor Jørgen Lauersen Vig…
The three deepest profundities plowed by Mark Obenhaus’ blandly beautiful, inarticulate extreme-skiing doc are: (1) Alaskan snow feels unusually…
Tyler Perry is going to wind up with a monopoly on mainstream adult dramas marketed to African-American audiences if quality…
As cinema progresses past some of the awareness-raising limitations of conventional journalism, we’re watching more docs on genocide, abortion, global…
While her friends play cops and robbers, broodingly precocious 9-year-old Anna (Nina Kervel) is asked by younger brother François to…
Inland Empire‘s Justin Theroux pops his directorial cherry with this obnoxious Sundance throwaway, a by-the-numbers romantic comedy that mistakenly believes…
After the deathly dull, faux-hipster muddle that was Ethan Hawke’s directorial debut, Chelsea Walls, expectations aren’t exactly high for the…
If you only see one gushy, poppy rock-doc about an influential singer-songwriter—renowned as much for his music as for his…
Brenda Blethyn’s trademark histrionics—maternal blubbering and drama-queen shrillness—worked smashingly for her intentionally trying role in Secrets & Lies, but her…
Textured with the smoggy grays and troubadour blues of his provincial Illinois homeland, writer-director Brian Jun’s likable, downbeat debut proves…
