Not interested in heroicizing the four Western doctors it follows through their missions in the Congo and Liberia, or even…
An artist-in-crisis piece run through a drab but quirk-conscious indie processor, Paper Man is everything a film like Lost in…
An almost miraculously photographed showcase of some of the seven seas’ least seen and most incredible specimens, Disney’s Oceans (a…
Documenting both the largest Tibetan uprising since the 1959 Chinese takeover and the Dalai Lama’s pre-Beijing Olympics diplomatic tour, The…
Casting against type is one thing, but putting Uma Thurman—an unheralded character actress; the more extraordinary the character, the better—in…
Wilma Stephenson runs her high-school culinary-arts class like a Marine sergeant: She’s loud, cranky, and prone to threatening bodily harm….
There are a number of tensions at play in Kate Churchill’s documentary about the proliferation of yoga as both spiritual…
Made in Seattle, A Wink and a Smile combines a survey of the underground burlesque resurgence, where the traditional striptease…
Russian actor/director Nikita Mikhalkov’s masterful, engrossing 12 is a revamp of 12 Angry Men that takes place in post-communist Moscow….
The center of Beauty in Trouble, Czech director Jan Hrebejk’s trying foray into soapy realism, is the kind of provincial,…
Manuel Legris, a French dancer interviewed in Bertrand Norman’s involving study of the Russian ballet, insists that a Russian ballerina…
Determined to cast only locals in his 1976 adaptation of Michel Foucault’s I, Pierre Rivière (also playing NWFF this week),…
With its delicate fairy-tale bones and layer of politically conscious muscle, Azur & Asmar is a sleek yet slightly unwieldy…
Troy Garity has a rangy, lonesome-stranger body and pouchy eyes. He can boot a cigarette butt to the curb like…
Director Eric Guirado’s The Grocer’s Son is a small, self-assured film that moves at its own pace, always staying one…
Both a handy election primer and a bowel-rattling cry of fiscal doom, I.O.U.S.A. is an Inconvenient Truth for the debt…
Resist if you dare, and for as long as you must, but even the hoariest haters eventually succumbed to the…
Neil Young wanted to tour the country that re-elected George W. Bush, dole out some demerits, light some fires, and…
Wong Kar Wai called Chungking Express, his fourth film but first international calling card, “a road movie of the heart.”…
Firing off a deluge of immigrant-hardship vignettes with the thudding consistency of a tennis-ball machine, Under the Same Moon presents…
