As with his previous films, Argentine director Lisandro Alonso’s Liverpool is defined by its trajectory. A taciturn merchant sailor named…
Goats begins with the mind-fucking assertion that “more of this is true than you would believe.” And would you believe…
Though no one’s idea of an action film, Andrew Bujalski’s Beeswax feels less charmingly aimless than its radically slight precursors…
Lars von Trier’s doggedly outrageous, fearsomely ambitious two-hander is so desperate to make you feel something—if only a terrible sensation…
Directed by Spike Jonze from a 400-word children’s picture book first published in 1963, Where the Wild Things Are may…
Set in the bucolic suburbs of early-19th-century London, as fresh and dewy as a newly mowed lawn, Jane Campion’s Bright…
Founded by self-described urban guerrillas Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Ulrike Meinhof, the Red Army Faction were the Weather Underground,…
The great idiosyncratic original of the French nouvelle vague generation, Agnès Varda began her career as a photographer, and, in…
Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment—rich in fantasy and blithely amoral. The movie…
Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larrain’s alarming Tony Manero—set in the dark days of the Pinochet regime and named not for its…
Michael Jacobs’ Audience of One belongs to a particular nonfiction genre—the docu-exploitation of a spectacularly miscarried movie. Jacobs’ hapless protagonist…
Tatia Rosenthal’s stop-motion animation feature adds a measure of stolid creepiness to co-writer Etgar Keret’s brand of dark whimsy. Like…
Willkommen to the new Sacha Baron Cohen extravaganza Brüno (directed by guerrilla filmmaker Larry Charles), which is often hilarious. Is…
Woody Allen’s first New York movie after five years abroad, Whatever Works is his first in even longer to center…
Kid performers naturally introduce elements of magic and mystery into the most banal situations. They are most resonant, however, when…
The first feature by Russian ethno-documentarian Sergei Dvortsevoy is a fiction founded on a powerful sense of place—and that place,…
As this baroque genealogical melodrama reaches its appropriately hysterical denouement, Vincent Gallo fixes his pale gaze on young co-star Alden…
With Summer Hours, director Olivier Assayas stages a tactical retreat from the hookers and junkies of his Boarding Gate and…
The hardcore teen queen who took the name Sasha Grey and refers to her porn films as performance art plays…
Jim Jarmusch’s anonymous antihero hit man (French-Ivorian actor Isaach De Bankolé), identified in the final credits as the Lone Man,…
