Prepare to have your assumptions pitched out the window by this tense, surprisingly probing satirical documentary—not just about religious longing…
Whether it strikes you as a profound, perspective-shifting spiritual travelogue, or the cinematic equivalent of a forgettable New Age music…
Fluid, open-ended documentaries that demand more of an audience than foregone assent or fleeting bouts of passive outrage are rare…
Country-music devotees will either love or hate this speculative account of the last three days in the life of Hank…
Ingeniously simple yet deceptively intricate, this French police thriller abounds in post-Woo/Tarantino action tropes: the usual galloping gun battles, absurdly…
Startlingly intimate and direct, this first-person doc by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi requires multiple viewings for anyone eager to…
With its novel approach and wider-than- usual scope, this riff on Margaret Atwood’s 2008 book-length essay, Payback: Debt and the…
Gotham’s contradictory dedication to both bohemianism and unchecked greed is exposed in photographer Josef Astor’s bleak Lost Bohemia. Astor was…
What’s missing from first-time director Lorene Scafaria’s Steve Carell–vehicle misfire is the one element any apocalypse narrative suffocates without—urgency. Scafaria,…
Although it’s steeped in tragedies both personal and cultural, this contemplative, gorgeously shot documentary/fiction hybrid from husband-and-wife auteurs Israel Cárdenas…
As with meat processing and politics, the day-to-day drama, tedium, and heartbreak of prostitution have little to do with our…
Celebrity scientist and PBS fixture David Suzuki arrives late to the global-warming-documentary party with this combination of biography and filmed…
Like the longhair with the foghorn falsetto it’s titled after, this unfussy rock-doc profile is shaggy, sophisticated, and more than…
Working the long con and damn near getting away with it, this kissing cousin to Fargo, Cedar Rapids, and last…
Director/screenwriter Tran Anh Hung crams Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood into two and a half hours that offer barely a hint…
As bluntly humanist and free-ranging as its subject, this brisk take on the life of poet, sociologist, educator, psychologist, and…
Packing an entire season’s worth of The Wire‘s dirty cops, self-serving politicians, serpentine plotting, and gruesome, wasteful collateral damage into…
Riffing on how outlaw Butch Cassidy’s life might have gone had he survived in South America, this modest oater should…
Pretentious muddle trumps splattery satire in this high-minded indie button-pusher, which is only fleetingly as transgressive as its infamous Sundance-screening…
Too morbid to be a crowd-pleaser a la Good Will Hunting but nowhere near as confrontationally inscrutable as Gerry, Gus…
Road movies don’t get any purer than this visual reverie— Bressonian in its austerity and transcendence, only with truck-stop hookers….
The smartest, funniest cheap monster-movie import this side of June’s Trollhunter, Attack the Block is a near-perfectly balanced seasonal trifle:…
A grueling barrage of geologic plunder, union-busting, sociopathic official indifference (hey, why not put a toxic-sludge lake next to an…
