The premise of Michael Winterbottom’s adaptation of Jim Thompson’s 1952 crime novel could be summed up in a classified ad:…
Suppose what we call “parenting” is just a situation in which overgrown kids take care of smaller ones? That’s the…
Nicole Holofcener’s fourth feature is, for the most part, witty and engrossing. Kate (Catherine Keener) and Alex (Oliver Platt) are…
Opening with a close-up of the crow’s feet around its subject’s eyes and expanding to reveal her Botox-frozen upper lip,…
Harmony Korine, aging enfant terrible and self-proclaimed “most American” of American indies, finds his level and brings it home to…
The great boundary-crosser of Iranian cinema, Bahman Ghobadi purposefully steps over the line with this quasi-documentary, highly unofficial panorama of…
A rock doc with more than a whiff of fried brain cells, Tom DiCillo’s When You’re Strange serves to remind…
Although based on the true story of an unstable actor who, cast as Orestes in Sophocles’ Electra, so identified with…
Sad, funny, and acutely self-conscious, Noah Baumbach’s new movie is a mordant character study, unafraid to project a downbeat worldview…
Mother, Bong Joon-ho’s follow-up to his killer killer-tadpole allegory The Host, is a subtler yet no less visceral horror-comedy. Opening…
Atom Egoyan’s Chloe is posh, cool, and never less than obvious. Work for hire, the movie was adapted by Erin…
Better late than never—a bang-bang pulse-pounder predicated on the Bush administration’s deliberate fabrication of WMDs in Iraq. Paul Greengrass’ expertly…
Detective stories imply that mysteries can be solved, or at least rationally explained, and confirm a universe in which…
Prewar German youth prepare for war in Michael Hanekes masterpiece.
Animals and people are all jumbled up in this hyperactive Belgian puppet animation—as in Panic‘s central ménage of Cowboy, Indian,…
Cults collide as Peter Jackson tackles Alice Sebold’s bestselling New Age gothic, the story of a rape-murder-dismemberment and its aftermath,…
The most perverse installment in Aleksandr Sokurov’s dictator cycle, The Sun (2005) follows his meditations on Hitler (Moloch, 1999) and…
As overemphatic as one might expect from the ham-fisted Guy Ritchie, this resurrection of the world’s most famous detective is…
Orson Welles lives on not only in posthumously restored director’s cuts of his movies but as a character in other…
The anti-globalist performance guys who call themselves the Yes Men are masters of forging corporate rhetoric and media protocols. Their…
