Fashionista Karl Lagerfeld cultivated his iconic reputation working at a variety of established labels—moving from Chloé to Fendi to the…
You come away from Chop Shop with a mood, the voluptuous sum of its fine-tuned parts: the way a rundown…
An unusually blunt melodrama by David Gordon Green, melodious poet of such sentimental delicacies as George Washington and All the…
Having returned from Africa, “held prisoner by savages for two years before fleeing,” the Marquis de Montriveau (Guillaume Depardieu)…
Fleet-footed corpses are, from a physiological point of view, complete bullshit. “If you run that fast, your ankles will…
Regarding the irrelevance of Untraceable: First of all, torture is so 2007, and just because this drab little thriller with…
David Lynchs first freaky love child
In Between Days is instantly compelling. Dwarfed inside a fur-rimmed parka, a young girl trumps through snow, her silhouette framed…
An irresistible subject for a documentary: the charming celebrity of Marla Olmstead, an artist from upstate New York whose talent…
The estranged brothers Whitman have reunited for a journey on board the Darjeeling Limited, a colorful old locomotive traversing the…
Welcome to Gus Van Sant country, circa 1985
Drawing on memories of a specific place and time—England in the early ’80s—writer-director Shane Meadows nails the look and feel…
1. Balls of Fury is a movie about: (a) A former table-tennis prodigy (Dan Fogler as Randy Daytona) enlisted by…
Drawing equally from declamatory African traditions and European modernist procedures, Bamako stages a kind of Third World Epic Theater. Set…
Lights derives scant excitement from its melodramatic plot, which satisfies a dismal, ineluctable formula with stultifying efficiency. Nor is it…
In which our hero confronts his programmers in Langley. Bauer would not approve.
Not, alas, a biopic of the Simpsons’ god-fearing neighbor. The latest from philosophy-professor-turned-cineaste Bruno Dumont marks a return to the…
It is the year 2057. Approximately 5 billion years ahead of schedule, the sun is beginning to die. In a…
Having ascended to genre supremacy, the biopic has long since reached its imaginative low—so much so that the banality of…
Michael Bay completes his totalitarian assault on the average American filmgoer. Just like we asked him to.
Night Watch, you may recall, told of an ancient feud waged between the forces of Light and Dark. The hero,…
And so Disney’s immense, booty-busting, pro-piracy epic has come to an End. I doubt very much that Pirates 3 is,…
The story thus far: Seven months have gone by since the Rage virus passed from chimp fang to British bloodstream…
