Ideas beam out from Astra Taylor’s engaging new philoso-doc; the viewer basks in the intelligence on-screen and occasionally soaks up…
Established artists who’ve made mid-career leaps from gallery to movie house have not easily found their footing. But British video…
Does anyone remember Japan? The tri-part Tokyo! revisits the Land of the Lost Decade—or at least its largest city—courtesy of…
Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas is part stuntmeister, part visionary—a post-Warhol impresario and trained diplomat who, flirting with fraudulence and often…
Some 23 years in the making, Ellen Kuras’ first film as a director is a portrait of Laotian refugee Thavisouk…
Filming the most ambitious superhero comic book ever written, director Zack Snyder has managed to address the cult while pandering…
Martin Scorsese may be presenting Matteo Garrone’s Gomorrah, but this corrosive, slapdash exposé of organized crime in and around Naples…
Ari Folman’s broodingly original Waltz With Bashir is a documentary that seems only possible, not to mention bearable, as an…
Modest but cosmic, Kelly Reichardt’s Wendy and Lucy is a movie whose sad pixie heroine, Wendy (Michelle Williams), already skating…
And so the endless campaign wraps up with a flurry of virtual leaders. Richard Nixon will always be part of…
The Wrestler may be plenty visceral, but it’s no more a sports movie than professional wrestling is a competitive sport….
This elegantly constructed if misleadingly titled class lecture, written and delivered by Brown professor of international relations James G. Blight…
I hear America singing and I see… Richard Nixon. Not the man but the muse: Has any president since Lincoln…
Gus Van Sant has never been what you’d call a risk-adverse filmmaker, but he directs his Harvey Milk biopic so…
JCVD wastes little time working itself into a pretzel. The action begins under the credits with Jean-Claude Van Damme working…
Twelve days of seasonal merriment, and then some. This comic, ultimately touching family melodrama is a heady plum pudding of…
A film that Eric Rohmer has suggested will be his last, Astrea and Celadon is a costume pageant that serenely…
The protag of Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky is a modestly gaudy people’s heroine industriously repairing the social world, one frayed interaction…
W. may be less frenzied than the usual Oliver Stone sensory bombardment, but in revisiting the early ’00s by way…
Claude Chabrol, who should soon be shooting his 70th feature, is at once wildly prolific and utterly faithful—at least to…
