Finally there’s a vampire movie worthy of the title The Hunger—even if it arrives under a more potable name. Carnal…
Want to know how a city works? Start by watching 1974’s The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, in which…
Old School fans, remove your earmuffs: This messy, raunchy farce about three groomsmen (Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis) on…
Satisfying only to pet-porn junkies whose tear ducts can’t even withstand a 365 Ferrets a Year calendar, the movie version…
Muslims, Jews, and Christians may have their, oh, occasional differences, but as an Islamic scholar observes in Parvez Sharma’s documentary,…
Runs at Northwest Film Forum, Fri., Aug. 29–Thurs., Sept. 4. Not rated. 95 minutes. X marks the spot, literally, where…
Part caper movie, part real-life superhero saga, and entirely engrossing, James Marsh’s documentary recounts in Rififi-like detail how a Parisian…
Smashed heads! Smashed faces! A woman disemboweled and hanged with her own guts! Vaginal impalement with, er, a snap-together vagina…
Of the summer’s many revenge-of-the-nerd fulfillment fantasies—from The Incredible Hulk to The Foot Fist Way—Wanted stands the best chance of…
Julianne Moore is one scary MILF.
The third feature by Harmony Korine, once the reigning Man You Love to Hate of American indie cinema, is just…
French Gore-Fest Says Non to Neo-Nazis
In the 1980s, three Mississippi 12-year-olds famously spent six years filming a shot-for-shot VHS remake of Raiders of the Lost…
Ben (Rob Bogue) has no job and a sexpot girlfriend (Aubrey Dollar) who wants to see other people; Colton (Josh…
Nobody can reduce tawdry material to doddering quaintness like the British, but this staggeringly inane joint effort of U.K., Belgian,…
A haunting meditation on hubris and the folly of claiming rights over something as elemental—and temperamental—as the environment, Laura Dunn’s…
As the convergence of two cooling trends—poker and the comic mock-doc—this largely improvised comedy set at a Texas hold ’em…
Actor-screenwriter Simon Pegg’s follow-up to the surprise hits Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz isn’t as quirky or distinctive…
An easy movie to despise but an impossible one to shake, Michael Haneke’s brilliant exercise in audience thumb-screwing—a virtual…
Even though one of the earliest appeals of cinema was the window it opened onto other cultures and continents,…
Note by Note Given rapt attention and care in the framing, there is no more engrossing subject than man at…
Credit writer-director Mitchell Lichtenstein with making a first feature that every man in America will watch with his legs crossed:…
Three dimensions seem scarcely enough to contain the messianic impulses of the world’s hardest-rocking humanitarian aid project, and in this…
