I was told there would be more penguins… well, not actually. The modern-day explorers in this Danish doc are actually…
Based on a 1971 sci-fi novel by Stanislaw Lem, this movie begins intriguingly as Hollywood satire. Robin Wright plays Robin…
Now an idea made obsolete by digital video, the old unit of cinematic measurement used to be a single reel…
Don’t play with your food—that may be the most frequent and earliest-recollected directive of childhood. But food is so primal,…
Recently the grand marshal of Seattle’s Pride Parade, George Takei has become America’s favorite gay uncle. Closeted during his Star…
Closely scripted and choreographed yet disarmingly casual in appearance, Ramon Zurcher’s family portrait is confined mostly to a Berlin apartment…
One of my top picks from SIFF last spring, this movie comes swaddled in spoilers. It’s almost impossible to describe…
You get to a certain point in life—40, 50, 70, divorce, the death of a spouse, or your retirement party—when…
Mexican drug cartels have become Hollywood shorthand for evil—like Indians in the old days, or Nazis after that. On this…
A dispatch from the frontlines of rural poverty, this documentary follows three boys (and their families) in the small town…
When did fossil hunting become a crime? For more than a century since paleontologists and amateurs began looking for geologic…
This is a bumpy, uneven picture full of colorful digressions—is that simply to say it’s Irish?—and narrative dead-ends. Its writer…
Some movie critics must secretly hope that Woody Allen dies soon—if not two decades ago—to spare us any more of…
Spain only seems to export its most beautiful movie stars to us, often via Almodovar: Antonio Banderas, Penelope Cruz, Javier…
I think of Joe Swanberg’s latest lo-fi indie comedy as less a successful movie than a successful situation that happens…
Petra Costa’s very personal documentary is about her sister Elena, 13 years older, who during the late ’80s left Brazil…
When a feature’s title is the name of one of its actors, not his character’s name, you know the project…
About Alex Runs Fri., Aug. 8–Thurs., Aug. 14 at Sundance CInemas. Rated R. 96 minutes. Suicide attempt. Six college friends,…
This is a highly subjective category. Your best LBS (local bike shop) ought to be your closest bike shop. In…
Judge not, lest ye be passed by a paceline of uniformed cyclists pedaling at 30 miles per hour on the…
