You know the place: a Neorealist set populated by the young, restless, and dazed of all ages, all living with…
As aficionados of Puppy Bowl can attest, attaching stories to the comings and goings of animals is surefire entertainment. Veteran…
Fifty years after Kim Ki-young’s postwar hothouse original, Im Sang-soo attempts a sleek, breathless update to the tale of a…
An apocalyptic take on the social network comes from, of all places, Mamoru Hosoda’s childlike, yay-go-team Japanime about a hijacked…
The science of global warming is tough enough to evaluate without the sort of hard-sell Ondi Timoner pushes on behalf…
The facts are more gripping than the filmmaking in Marco Amenta’s routine docudrama about tenacious teen informer Rita Atria. The…
After last week’s Part One of the crime saga of Jacques Mesrine, Killer Instinct, Part Two dives into the ’70s…
French gangster/showman Jacques Mesrine’s jaw-dropping record of flamboyant crimes and repeat prison breaks would seem to guarantee an exciting portrait…
Say what you will, but the lead actors in Argentine director Juan Jose Campanella’s latest film do have lovely (or…
The latest from popular Korean director Kim Ji-woon lands with a splat in the camp of decadent American blockbusters. Dubbed…
After waving a gun around at home, young Copenhagen cop Robert Hansen (Jakob Cedergren) is shipped to the South Jutland…
Like any normal former TV star with free time and a cause that’s caught his eye, James Van Der Beek…
Chris Smith’s one-man doc on veteran doomsayer Michael C. Ruppert holds less interest as another sky-is-falling dispatch than as the…
You’re not always entirely sure what is happening in Tony Jaa’s new movie, but there certainly is a lot of…
A heaviness—call it lived-in shellshock—hangs over the green Rwandan hills in Lee Isaac Chung’s serious-minded, immersive debut. Sangwa joins fellow…
Part of the likeable routine Michael Keaton brought to his roles in the ’80s was patter—sometimes manic, sometimes balky. In…
Director John Crowley’s lighter follow-up to the anguished Boy A features a standard teaming of reluctant oldster and troubled youngster—both…
The asymmetrical border dispute in Lemon Tree feels instantly familiar—and indeed Israeli director Eran Riklis’ previous drama, The Syrian Bride,…
We’re not talking Dardennes here, but fellow Belgian Christophe Van Rompaey gives this light May-to-December pair-up an agreeably mussed, pedestrian…
