More than ever, boiling this concluding year down to the 10 “best” movies feels both arbitrary and reductive. Ideally, I’d…
Now a prosperous Hollywood insider, he tells of his struggle to make Django Unchained.
A highly improvised fictional exposé in search of the elusive heart and soul of hipster nihilism, The Comedy stars alt-comic…
An adaptation of George V. Higgins’ 1974 novel Cogan’s Trade, Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly anatomizes a self-policing underground economy…
Early in this movie, Alfred Hitchcock (played by Sir Anthony Hopkins with a sack of fat connecting chin to neck)…
This found-footage eco-horror cheapie—in which a waterborne parasite mutates into an unstoppable human-flesh-eating scourge thanks to the march of progress…
The Loneliest Planet begins with a close-up of a beautiful woman, naked and trembling. It’s not what it sounds like….
Gossip Girl and The O.C., Josh Schwartz’s teen TV shows, are sly bait-and-switches. Both are easily marketable for their hot…
When it comes to cost-cutting, downsizing, and philosophical and practical compromise, how low is it possible to go before there’s…
Set amid the 1979–80 Iran hostage crisis, Ben Affleck’s Argo is a “gritty” historical drama overwhelmed by its love of…
In this faux-found-footage horror anthology (containing material directed by Joe Swanberg, Adam Wingard, Ti West, and others), a crew of…
Film critic Karina Longworth is reporting from the Toronto International Film Festival this week.For maybe the first hour of Yellow…
Editor’s note: Village Voice media film critic Karina Longworth is currently at the Toronto Film Festival, from where se’ll be…
It’s hard to imagine an experimental Danish documentary siphoning off too much Best Actor attention. But make no mistake: In…
Marie Losier’s doc chronicles Psychic TV and Throbbing Gristle founder Genesis Breyer P-Orridge’s recent career and second marriage, both defined…
Newly separated, Celeste (Rashida Jones) is told by her un-flamboyant queer co-worker (Elijah Wood), “It’s time get your fuck on.”…
Robert Pattinson’s casting as Eric Packer, a 28-year-old finance prodigy ensconced in a stretch limo on a 24-hour odyssey across…
“My son is sick right now, covered in zits. It’s not contagious — I mean, it’s contagious, but don’t worry:…
The Campaign begins with an onscreen quote attributed to Ross Perot: “War has rules. Mud-wrestling has rules. Politics has no…
Lucy (Mira Sorvino), a hot mess in a minidress and spike-heel boots, shows up in Manhattan, yappy little dog in…
Vividly bringing to life the question Don DeLillo poses in Cosmopolis—whether self-denial is a social responsibility—Lauren Greenfield’s new documentary tracks…
An episodic ensemble piece based on cases handled by Paris’ Child Protection Unit, Polisse is a mutant beast: Imagine an…
Will (Ben Foster)—a lone-wolf American cartographer on contract to collect data on the ground to match to satellite maps in…
