Alex Ross Perry’s second feature, shot in 16mm black-and-white, is an offhand-picturesque road-trip movie with a mock-epic Northeastern itinerary. It’s…
I have seen many passable minds of my generation fritter away their best creative years working on tributes to the…
In one week, Frank (Joel Murray), a divorced, 50ish, glumly alcoholic white-collar worker, loses his job, becomes completely estranged from…
In this star-clogged pop-musical diversion (based on a jukebox musical built around an afternoon of VH1 Classics’ worth of ’80s…
Prone to shallow ponderousness, Prometheus assumes the air of a blockbuster-with-brains that links the genesis and ultimate fate of mankind…
The prolific Hong Sang-soo’s 12th film begins with Sungjoon (Yu Jun-sang), a former film director now retired to a professorship…
The script for Bernie was in part dictated from the stand: In a 1997 murder trial in Carthage, Texas, Bernhardt…
“I think that men are having an identity crisis, but they don’t really know it.” So says “biological anthropologist” Helen…
Every once in a while, a movie comes along that’s so utterly shameless, it achieves a certain grandeur. Peter Berg’s…
The British have practically cornered the multiplex’s senior demo (think Waking Ned Devine and Calendar Girls) and look to be…
Michael (Michael Fuith) is a 30-something unmarried insurance agent who, by necessity, meticulously keeps up domestic ritual. Michael, you see,…
Dark Shadows slips the “Tim Burton treatment” to the supernaturally themed daytime soap of the same name, which aired daily…
The first fiction feature in a dozen years from visionary British director Terence Davies is a film about love that…
As in his directorial debut, Mid-August Lunch, Gianni Di Gregorio stars in this quiet comedy—this time as Giovanni, a man…
This latest episode in the ongoing American Pie saga, handled by the Harold & Kumar writer/director team of Jon Hurwitz…
Documentarian Robert Greene chaperones 18-year-old Kati Genthner through the three days before her graduation (with honors) from Pleasant Valley High…
Rogue comic Will Ferrell recently turned up in an Old Milwaukee commercial exclusively for the Davenport, Iowa, local market; the…
“There’s no one way to live our lives,” hopes the displaced, adrift couple at the center of Wanderlust. Shopping among…
Hostilities in This Means War are declared as two workmates compete for the affection of the same woman. The contested…
The man in the title is British-American multimillionaire Richard Garriott, who made his pile designing PC “virtual world” role-playing games,…
