The subject of Magic Trip is the LSD- powered, cross-country road movie orchestrated by novelist Ken Kesey in the summer…
Danish artist Michael Madsen’s Into Eternity documents an anti-monument to negativity. Admirably forward-thinking, if undeniably quixotic, Finland’s government has undertaken…
Directed by Azazel Jacobs, Terri concerns an obese 15-year-old, a de facto orphan, living in a ramshackle home with a…
Lu Chuan’s City of Life and Death has the title and the feel of a monument. This wide-screen, austerely monochromatic,…
The acme of no-budget, Buddhist-animist, faux-naive, avant-pop magic neorealism, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee is a movie in which conversing with…
A big-bang demolition derby, J.J. Abrams’ much-anticipated, greatly enjoyable Super 8 seems bound for box-office glory. Set in a small…
Grave, beautiful, austerely comic, and casually metempsychotic, Michelangelo Frammartino’s Le Quattro Volte is one of the wiggiest nature documentaries—or almost-documentaries—ever…
Tenacious indie Kelly Reichardt has specialized in quirky, minimalist quasi–road movies in which loners come unmoored in some great American…
One of the few justifiable recent excursions into 3-D, Werner Herzog’s new documentary charts a secret wonder of the world,…
Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy is exactly that: The Iranian modernist’s first feature to be shot in the West is a…
Aaron Katz’s Portland-set junior detective mystery stakes a claim as the founding work of mumble-noir. The 29-year-old director’s two previous…
As spacey as its title suggests, Gregg Araki’s latest youth film is an occult mystery set in the ultimate SoCal…
Precocious, ambitious, and deeply disturbed, photographer Francesca Woodman committed suicide in 1981 at the age of 22; her work was…
Miguel Arteta’s amiable Cedar Rapids is a mild comedy of embarrassment, set in the dark heart of Middle America and…
Directed by Kevin Macdonald, this adaptation of a 1954 historical novel about second-century Roman legions and youthful derring-do on the…
Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist breathes life into a celluloid fossil, lovingly animating an unproduced script by the great filmmaker Jacques…
Only inertia will bring people to Michel Gondry’s new 3-D spectacle. Opening amid persistent negative buzz in the mid-January dead…
The late George Hickenlooper’s Casino Jack is an improbably blithe cautionary tale, recounting the rise and fall of D.C. superlobbyist…
A quasi-documentary portrait of young non-actors striking poses, walking around Boston, hanging out, and playing or listening to music, Damien…
A picnic for Anglophiles, not to mention a prospective Oscar bonanza for the brothers Weinstein, The King’s Speech is a…
