Something of a departure for Hong Kong’s reigning master of special-effects slapstick Stephen Chow, CJ7 is a father-son fable…
Thirteen months after Hubert Humphrey was nominated for president in a hall ringed with barbed wire and surrounded by…
He’s back–unflagging, indestructible, super-colossal. Through this epoch-defining figure one may refract American history. John Updike has his Rabbit Angstrom and…
The first feature by the conceptual Polish artist Piotr Uklanski, Summer Love is a mock spaghetti Western that manages to…
Writer-director Francisco Vargas’ first feature, an evocation of the 1970s Guerrero peasant revolt, is a solemn, suspenseful, extremely well-shot…
A great brooding thundercloud of a movie, Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood arrives as if from nowhere on…
Francis Ford Coppola’s self-financed return to the fray is a curious project—well-crafted, personal, and movie-movie old-fashioned even in its…
Paul Schrader’s cinema is largely defined by the pathology of his male protagonists, and with The Walker, he’s added…
Jonathan Demme, who directed Tom Hanks to an Oscar as the AIDS-afflicted lawyer in Philadelphia, may be the most…
Richard Kelly shoots the moon with his rich, strange, and very funny sci-fi social satire. The political phantasmagoria unfolds in…
Anyone wishing to ponder the origins and fate of the European New Left, as well as the development of political…
American Gangster is a movie with obvious gravitas and a familiar argument: Organized crime is outsider capitalism. As archetypal as…
This well-wrought indie, written and directed by Goran Dukic, has to be the Kewpie doll of current zombie flicks: Its…
Less Sidney Lumet’s comeback than his resurrection, this violent family melodrama is his strongest movie in at least two decades….
Though it opens with the cathartic spectacle of Anita Bryant getting a cream pie in the kisser and closes with…
Named for the spot in Christian-fundamentalist hell where sinners are condemned to spend eternity, Tony Kaye’s Lake of Fire is…
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Calling all pundits. It’s a baffling caprice of the zeitgeist to have two studio Westerns released in the same month,…
First, the 16 mm New Wave; then the Super-8 No Wave; and now, an American film movement, based on digital…
Johnnie To is the lone Hong Kong action director who’s done his best work in the aftermath of the crown…
