Something like a pain-fueled, R-rated Princess Bride, The Fall straddles the intertwined worlds of storytelling and story. One half is…
Messy Italian Politics Explained as Sibling Rivalry
The plot is pure choose-your-own-adventure: A bullied wuxia fanboy from South Boston (Michael Angarano) is teleported back into a LARP…
Who can lift the American screen comedy from a vast muck of sniggery boner gags and crap-pop bricolage? I’m pulling…
Writer-director Daniel Waters, who scripted Heathers eons ago, inexplicably keeps gigging. Here, the name of the game is dull vulgarity…
The title refers to the Estonian independence movement, incubated through the country’s stifled years as a Soviet satellite, when the…
Two modern couples of distant social strata convene at crotch-level in Lost in Beijing. Lin Dong (Tony Leung Ka-fai) is…
“A Fairy Tale Like No Other”? Penelope‘s influences are right up front—there’s the Tim Burton production design (overstocking each…
Oscar-nominated doc explores the issue of torture
Persepolis is a small landmark in feature animation. Not because of technical innovation—though it moves fluidly enough and its drawings…
LeeJohn (Tracy Morgan) is the screwup-schemey one; Durell (Ice Cube), the should-know-better buddy. Their latest very awful idea: breaking…
For any high-fivin’ “Movies for Guys Who Like Movies” bros hoping for the Guy Ritchie of yore, Revolver disappoints….
Shot concurrently with a “raising awareness” documentary on child prostitution in Southeast Asia (by the tellingly named Priority Films), Holly…
It’s 1973. The dirt has barely settled on Bruce Lee’s grave, and the exploitation rush is on. A producer with…
Can-do pep is the resonant key in Ted Braun’s profile of six individuals, spread across three continents, working to provide…
Bagi (nonprofessional Batzul Khayankhyarvaa) is a young Mongol herder sharing a yurt with his depleted family on their ancestral steppes,…
Of a generation of filmmakers who all wanted to be the next Scorsese, James Gray was different: He wanted to…
