As boarding-school bodice-rippers go, this assured debut by British director and girls’-school alumna Jordan Scott fairly bursts with pent-up carnality…
If The King’s Speech was a comfy middlebrow choice for Best Picture of 2010, how much more depressing was the…
Made for a song with a non-pro cast and DV camera gear out of his backpack, Tariq Tapa’s debut feature…
Updated for a skeptical age, this new World War II movie comes impeccably groomed in period-attentive tans and grays; is…
Delivering the news in the late 1940s that Universal Pictures would not release Stuart Schulberg’s documentary about the 1945–1946 Nuremberg…
The late Canadian novelist Mordecai Richler (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz) was a bellicose practitioner of Jewish fiction in the…
The little-told story of a small but growing nonviolent opposition movement among rural West Bank Palestinians gets an airing in…
This brave odd duck of a romantic comedy from James L. Brooks strays as far from a barrel of laughs…
Does it matter that a young Israeli filmmaker’s imaginative reconstruction of an abandoned Nazi propaganda film about the Warsaw Ghetto…
Kept afloat by an excellent cast, Woody Allen’s fourth movie about callow Londoners recklessly pursuing emotional wreckage begins with wisdom…
For the dwindling number of Holocaust survivors who still remember him, and the thousands of young Jews and Israelis who…
Purely for the reliable pleasure of Michael Caine’s company, I came ready to praise what threatened to be another miserabilist…
In this freakishly engrossing black comedy about excessively mothered men and the women who enable them, the excellent John C….
Sarah Jessica Parker is now 45 years old, and frankly I cannot stomach another moment of the simpering, mincing, hair-tossing,…
Nominated for an Oscar, the animated Secret of Kells came out of nowhere—an enchantingly old-fashioned Irish upstart about a medieval…
Watching this lauded but fatally slight comedy of manners about a middle-aged Italian who finds himself caring for four spunky…
Noam Chomsky reveres him. Leon Wieseltier hates him. Alan Dershowitz called him an anti-Semite and applied successful pressure to deny…
For better or worse, there isn’t a human experience that French director André Téchiné can resist lathering into a tone…
Katie Jarvis, who makes her acting debut as a rabid teenager in writer/director Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank, was discovered on…
Line up this terrific documentary about end-times evangelical Christians against Bill Maher’s sneering Religulous, and you’ll see an excellent argument…
Opening with balalaikas, scurrying agrarians in collarless shirts, and helpful intertitles announcing that Tolstoy was “the most celebrated writer in…
Reunited with Charles McKeown, his co-writer on Brazil and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Terry Gilliam has created another Ultimate…
Man, British heritage cinema can be dull and boring when assembly-lined for the export market. Laboring under lampshade millinery, hair…
