In her recent English-speaking roles, 50-year-old, bilingual Kristin Scott Thomas has gamely endured the fate of most actresses her age,…
Recording a three-day competition in Lyon, France, in which sugar is molded into rococo shapes, Kings of Pastry has none…
“What if we choose to exist solely in a reality of our own making?” asks Pittsburgh community-college lit professor John…
The usually silver-tongued Eliot Spitzer, political hero of the recent Inside Job and now ubiquitous media personality, stammers and hesitates…
The antithesis of both Marley & Me cuddliness and Cesar Millan militance, J.R. Ackerley’s 1956 memoir about his recalcitrant German…
It’s a long, long way from the women’s bar outside Berkeley, Calif., where Ntozake Shange first presented her combustible choreopoem…
When we first see bi computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) in the final adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy,…
Sam Nussbaum (Andrew Dickler), his Taliban-length beard an extension of his mullah-like self-righteousness about organic produce and bicycling, is about…
After Fox Searchlight’s Amelia spectacularly flamed out last October, the studio’s trying again to grab awards-season honors with another biopic…
Davis Guggenheim’s call-to-arms documentary on the failures of the U.S. public-education system—thoroughly laudable in intention if maddening in its logic…
For the past half-decade, Romain Duris has been French cinema’s go-to brooder. Diversifying his saturnine handsomeness, Duris gives his artfully…
As far as teen comedies informed by 10th-grade English syllabi go, Easy A, partly inspired by The Scarlet Letter, is…
“Oklahoma—they call it the ‘Sooner State,’” narrates Danny Glover, playing a fisherman/Magical Negro, at the beginning of the latest project…
International art star by 23, dead from a heroin overdose at 27, Jean-Michel Basquiat was drawn, in the words of…
In the early-morning hours of Saturday, June 28, 1969, at a dive at 53 Christopher Street in New York City,…
Watered-down Jungian analysis meets a GLAAD-approved weepie in Peter Bratt’s second feature, starring brother Benjamin (who also produces) as a…
Rodrigo Garcia has admirably distinguished himself through his commitment to creating intelligent roles for his heavily distaff casts. Like his…
Another movie, not as awful as this one, might one day find better use for the easygoing vibe between Queen…
Indebted to The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Square fails to raise (James M.) Cain. The feature-helming debut of stuntman…
Everyone in the Rizzo family has something to hide: Paterfamilias Vince (Andy Garcia) works as a corrections officer, but sneaks…
