Recording the anthem “Les Filles du Crazy,” half a dozen women—performers at the Crazy Horse, Paris’ classy nudie cabaret—sing of…
With a name that not even the PR team at Smokefree America could dream up, Victor DeNoble emerges as the…
More delightful than Procatinator and a greater tribute to the power of print journalism than Page One: Inside the New…
Fulfilling a mission that has consumed her for almost two decades, Glenn Close—as producer, co-writer, and lead—brings to the screen…
A brisk, fascinating chronicle of a pre–Carla Bruni Nicolas Sarkozy that time-shifts from May 6, 2007—the day he was both…
That this film was originally titled Goethe! should give you a sense of how much silly Sturm und Drang boosterism…
The first 10 minutes of Dee Rees’ funny, moving, nuanced, and impeccably acted first feature, in which coming of age…
A sensitive portrait of childhood just before pubescence, Tomboy, the second film by writer/director Céline Sciamma, astutely explores the freedom…
An undeniably charming homage to Hollywood in the late 1920s, The Artist will probably be the most successful silent movie…
Frustratingly opaque, Julia Leigh’s debut feature opens with an unforgettable image: A young woman, earning some cash as a medical-research…
Tyrannosaur opens with a dog being kicked to death by its master, Joseph (Peter Mullan), a Leeds widower curdled by…
In his first feature, writer/director Sam Levinson (son of Barry) turns to screeching family dysfunction for inspiration; the end result…
Desperately trying to appeal to not just the Gen-Xers who grew up with Kermit but also the tykes who’ve never…
A butch Dorothy Parker with flashes of Wildean rhetorical flourish, Fran Lebowitz, the subject of this tonic portrait that first…
Constance Marks’ documentary on Kevin Clash, the kind, gentle man who created the Muppet beloved by every single child in…
Ethan Brand (Alessandro Nivola), front man for a small-venue alt-rock band about to splinter thanks to his drunken tantrums, is…
A feeble teenage-outcast movie set in 1987, Dirty Girl exists primarily as a vehicle for first-time writer/director Abe Sylvia’s favorite…
Standing outside his small-town Ohio home, Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) looks up at the ominous, slate-gray sky. The clouds open,…
Sure to be drowned out by the drum circles at Occupy Wall Street, writer/director J.C. Chandor’s lifeless Margin Call depicts…
A home-invasion movie as instantly forgettable as its title, Trespass is not without disturbing images: namely, Nicolas Cage and Nicole…
