Quick, can you name the short-film Oscar winners from this past March? Me neither. Instead of belatedly parading the nominees…
Somewhat contrary to expectation, this is not a documentary about a master art forger. Exposed as a fraud in 2011…
The audience votes with its feet. At least at the museum, where you’re not supposed to applaud or cheer, people…
Yumiko Glover left Japan as young college graduate and never went back. After working in business and as a simultaneous…
Faster than you can say Young Adult novel, director Gregg Araki dives into a doomy ’80s wallow, the soundtrack throbbing…
A staple of Japanese folklore for 10 centuries, Princess Kaguya is now an anime eight years in the making from…
Some movies are an argument against making movies; some marriages are an argument against having kids; and this addled New…
Justin Simien’s smart new college satire reminds you how lazy most American comedies are. In a very different Hollywood ecosystem,…
They don’t make movies like this anymore, a fact that director Mathieu Amalric immediately emphasizes with The Blue Room’s boxy…
If you didn’t get the message in last year’s Disconnect, director Jason Reitman is here to remind you again that…
Marriage equality may be a new thing, but there’s always been equality in grief. The death of a lover is…
Seven decades after World War II, and countless movies about it, I don’t know if audiences still have a taste…
You’ve seen this story before, maybe twice: Tom Hanks in Captain Phillips and the Danish A Hijacking. Cutter Hodierne’s tale…
At the movies at least, the stock of righteous, muckraking journalists peaked with All the President’s Men. Newsmen (almost always…
Down in the lower paragraphs of news stories about the Middle East, whenever this Hamas faction or that Hezbollah brigade…
We’re in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a walled city surrounded first by slums (whose denizens are shot on sight) and then…
This new sculptural installation by local artists Etta Lilienthal and Ben Zamora presents a tangle of old-school fluorescent bulbs—not those…
This new advocacy doc is essentially the bastard child of Who Killed the Electric Car? and Fuel (also directed by…
How, short of total victory, do you end a war? The question has been haunting our military and political leaders…
Likable characters are a curse in Hollywood. Studios want someone relatable, someone personable, someone who looks friendly on the cover…
