Daniel Ellsberg was an ex-Marine, trusted analyst, and Cold Warrior under Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, who, “from the…
Putatively a new romance starring Robert Pattinson, Remember Me begins like a vigilante movie: A Brooklyn subway platform, 1991; a…
This crime triptych originated in four novels by David Peace, who looked back without nostalgia to the Yorkshire of his…
The key image in Old Partner is that of farmer Choi Won-kyun, 79, slumped in his jerry-rigged cart, being pulled…
As personal assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to France, James Reese (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) longs for some more adventurous way…
“Did you shoot my daughtah?” is the question posed, in flat-voweled Bostonian, in the trailer for Edge. And Mel Gibson,…
A whirling dervish of rafter-swinging rebellion, gypsy-punk rockers Gogol Bordello (led by handlebar-mustached beanpole Eugene Hütz—beloved New York DJ, accidental…
Directors Allen and Albert Hughes were raised by an Armenian mother and an African American father. With such a background,…
No fashion-conscious multiplex movie should face opening day without some grave issue of our day propped in its buttonhole. Last…
The Devil, apparently, lives in an out-of-the-way gingerbread Victorian, just past the cemetery, where college sophomore Samantha (Jocelin Donahue) is…
Documentarian Ondi Timoner lends her credulity and camera to swollen, damaged egos who believe themselves visionaries. We Live in Public…
There’s a moment in this documentary when the father of its subject, an autistic child named Rowan, explains his son’s…
One New York institution (Abel Ferrara, b. 1951, the Bronx) regards another (The Hotel Chelsea, b. 1883, West 23rd Street)…
This documentary follows Akron’s Fab Four (later Five) kids on the basketball court, from their “Shooting Stars” traveling youth team…
The plot hook here sounds like a pileup of Jim Carrey–Tom Shadyac concept comedies. Ricky Gervais’ fuzzy parable exists in…
Paris, as overdocumented as any great city, still has new facets to reflect. For proof, see Claire Denis’ idiosyncratically observed…
You, the Living flips through 50-some single-panel vignettes, many very funny, arranged by Roy Andersson, a Swedish director best known…
In Melvin Van Peebles’ homely home-video-art love-story curio, incorporating fragments of his 1982 stage musical Waltz of the Stork, the…
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, secular worker-priests of the Belgian cinema, emerge once more from their lower depths. In describing one…
A dapper (mostly) contemporary costume drama, The Time Traveler’s Wife is abundantly interior-decorated in vintage rococo. Eric Bana, to his…
