The hero of this red-herring heist flick draws two reactions from the throng beneath his 21st-floor perch on a Manhattan…
“Inspired by true events” in the early 1900s, as this somber Portland indie declares, How the Fire Fell begins with…
I was told there would be more wolf-punching. If you crash Liam Neeson and six disposable buddies in the frozen…
Chicago artist Theaster Gates tries to create a soul refuge at SAM.
Winner of the award for Wordiest Title of the Month, this Japanese anime also features a very long and confusing…
A face in a bag.
In this country, British modernist “starchitect” Norman Foster is perhaps best known for the Hearst headquarters in New York, with…
Two young Japanese tourists get stranded in a sunbaked hamlet far north of L.A. Their destination? Manzanar. So you know…
Which are you more excited to see this Christmas weekend: the horse, the dragon, the zoo, or Snowy (Tintin’s faithful…
Too much time at my desk (and in museums and galleries), not enough time in screening rooms. The usual excuses,…
A tombstone for the CD.
Two shows celebrate a prewar neighborhood.
A new approach for Annie Leibovitz?
Furniture from the Mad Men era at BAM.
Because it’s a total star turn for George Clooney, and because it’s been seven years since director Alexander Payne’s Sideways,…
Anti-photography.
Brain art vs. body art.
During the early ’80s, the Bay Area was initially slow to recognize the “gay cancer” that, one subject recalls in…
A plane bisecting the air.
Tom Tykwer’s new romantic triangle is a comedy with a genetic premise. One of its Berlin trio is a scientist…