Horror movies are lately given to gluttonous effects, but director Ti West (The House of the Devil) is a rare…
Haywire‘s plot is boilerplate triple-cross, cloak-and-dagger stuff—but the action choreography by director Steven Soderbergh and MMA fighter Gina Carano puts…
Director Stephen Daldry has never met a Big Theme he didn’t like: After 2002’s The Hours, a lugubrious women’s-problem picture…
The subject of Gianfranco Rosi’s documentary portrait is a former resident of Ciudad Juárez, a Mexican city where, according to…
Steven Spielberg’s motion-captured, 3-D The Adventures of Tintin rolls together plot elements from three comic-book adventures starring Belgian artist Hergé’s…
The great success of Guy Ritchie’s 2009 Sherlock Holmes was to make Arthur Conan Doyle’s gimlet-eyed detective, first introduced to…
Takeshi Kitano’s latest finds the actor/director returning to the familiar terrain of the yakuza film after recent farces (Achilles and…
Anna (Felicity Jones) is an aspiring journalist, a wee wisp of a girl come from Britain to study in Los…
A revenge of the have-nots playing on the clear class stratification of the luxury high-rise, Tower Heist pits lobby against…
Puncture is proudly “Based on a True Story.” As is so often the case, this means an indifference to “true”…
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, is the close-second candidate for authorship of the 37 plays of William Shakespeare—who,…
Premiered as a BBC1 telefilm, now flaunting its wasteful widescreen in theaters, Toast adapts the autobiography of Nigel Slater, a…
Wholly unrelated to the 1975 Sam Peckinpah film of the same name, Killer Elite is distinguished by one no-mercy, eye-gouging,…
José (Fernando Luján) has been divorced from Nora for 20 years. They were married at least as long. Now he…
You know those Affliction shirts, covered in skulls, gothic lettering, and tribal patterns, all cacophonous symbols of badass machismo? That’s…
This shaggy-man character study follows a 50-something policeman in western Ireland, Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson). No by-the-book cop, Boyle…
At his peak (Two-Lane Blacktop, Cockfighter), Monte Hellman superbly combined an absurdist worldview and snapshot-authentic Middle America. But rather than…
Blank City is a self-defeating, user-friendly primer on a group of films whose aura was enhanced by the fact that…
The embellishment of a memoir by Latif Yahia, once forcibly employed as a public stand-in for Saddam Hussein’s psychopathic son,…
Alleged to be compiled from found college-project footage from a group of missing students, Trollhunter begins as an investigative report…
