Closing out a pretty great year for children’s movies—Up, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Coraline among them—Betty Thomas’ dutiful…
Of all European nations, Denmark enjoys the nearest thing to a heroic record of resisting its Nazi occupiers—which adds both…
A rosy tale of racial reconciliation neatly wrapped in a triumphalist sports movie (and blessedly free of spurious Obama parallels),…
Other than a few tasty tidbits, like the fact that he wrote Joseph McCarthy’s will while still a young family…
If ever there were a true-life tale that laid bare the laws of South African apartheid in all their arbitrary…
Nothing if not a meaty yarn, Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is a lot more besides, but Robert Zemeckis, a cutting-edge…
The Yiddish shtetl shtick that opens Joel and Ethan Coen’s new movie—a Jewish peasant stumbles on an old Hasid who…
Less a movie than a traveling circus, this scattershot, lazy slice of agitprop recycles Moore’s usual slice-and-dice job on corporations,…
Did you know that goy god Steve McQueen got an early walk-on on a Jewish television sitcom? That’s just one…
After the acclaimed Gomorrah, Italian corruption gets a much quieter but equally vigorous workout in Paolo Sorrentino’s highly stylized portrait…
How we view the relationship between traditional and new media should forever be changed by Danish filmmaker Anders Østergaard’s terrific…
In his quiet way, Jeff Daniels can coax to vivid life the most cardboard type—which is just as well, given…
Other than Rose Byrne’s on-screen radiance and a soothingly warm palette lit by cinematographer Seamus Tierney, there’s not much to…
The solemn new addition to the tiny elementary-school faculty in a rural Czech outpost gets off to a heavily symbolic…
Though hardly landmarks of narrative or animation art, the first two Ice Ages were warm and goofy and appealing; John…
Quick! Noël Coward—sage or supercilious bitch? No matter where you stand, Stephan Elliott’s deliciously cheeky screen adaptation of one of…
Trailing mostly justified ill will for having trounced the critical favorite, Waltz With Bashir, for Best Foreign Film at this…
Notwithstanding all the boomer studio executives who grow misty-eyed recollecting nerdy childhoods parked in front of the Krofft brothers’ television…
At the tail end of The Da Vinci Code, having traipsed around scenic Paris and London for over two hours…
If they’re French, even dweebs get to lounge around tastefully beige Paris interiors clutching long-stemmed glasses of merlot while discussing…
