High School Musical excepted, dance figures now in teen movies mostly as competitive sport: Either it’s an NBA-like ticket out,…
Having a child destroys your immune system to horror, real or imagined. As surely as Pan’s Labyrinth—whose director, Guillermo…
How tough is it for a movie to find its audience, above the din of blockbuster marketing and beyond the…
As an actor, John C. Reilly is the opposite of Mr. Cellophane. He doesn’t disappear into a role; roles disappear…
In a just world, Sean Fine and Andrea Nix’s documentary wouldn’t exist—at least not in this fashion. The rebel group…
After staggering out of Inland Empire like a mole groping toward sunlight, you could be forgiven for thinking that there…
This immersion in sibling malice and simmering resentment, with one of the most infuriating characters in recent movies holding us…
Julien Temple’s engrossing portrait of the late Clash frontman uses snippets of everything from Raging Bull to an animated Animal…
Call it The Death of the Cool. Anchoring the Earshot Jazz film series at NWFF, Let’s Get Lost stands as…
“Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid,” Raymond…
Hey, Prague—you got punk’d! In this subversive Central European slice of reality TV, Czech film students Vít Klusák and Filip…
Steve Buscemi the director is nothing like the art-damaged auteur Buscemi the actor played in 1995’s Living in Oblivion. No…
Don’t wait for Jasmine Dellal’s doc to end up broken between pledge-drive pitches: This joyous portrait of the 2001 “Gypsy…
Wong Kar-wai on aisle four and Michel Gondry on aisle six, with Kevin Smith as mop jockey at all points…
If the sight gag is dead, this excruciatingly precious Belgian comedy is less a resurrection than an autopsy. Made by…
What if you took It’s a Wonderful Life and replaced George Bailey with a scruffy Parisian con man and swapped…
Sure The Page Turner looks and sounds like an NPR junkie’s idea of thrill-crazy hothouse fare, but the title of…
Playing a creep even colder than the stiffs he tended on Six Feet Under, Peter Krause makes a bid to…
Clichés of doom catch up with Guy Pearce.
Everything you didn’t want to know about Ralph Nader.
