Spectacularly photographed and journalistically lame, Jane’s Journey blows a 107-minute kiss to Dr. Jane Goodall, the 70-something primatologist-turned-conservationist. Traveling 300-odd…
Dutifully hipster-hyped at Sundance and South by Southwest, writer/director/actor Evan Glodell’s testosterone-fueled, fever-dream indie impresses less for its screeching take…
In Canadian director Larysa Kondracki’s The Whistleblower, shot in Romania, British babe Rachel Weisz plays a poor Nebraska cop who…
Not every member of Homo sapiens who sees Project Nim will be moved to pledge membership in PETA. Still, this…
Justly feted at Cannes, named for the globetrotting Venezuelan “revolutionary”-turned-killer capitalist also known as “the Jackal,” Carlos is French auteur…
The de facto highlight of the horrific [REC] 2—the 28-minutes-later sequel to the Spanish zombie flick Americanized as Quarantine—comes when…
No less a man than Jet Li cries multiple times in this impressively gargantuan Chinese battle epic. A quasi-remake of…
According to Marco Bellocchio’s Vincere, Mussolini was nearly as much of a bully in the bedroom as he was in…
Pedro Almodóvars latest comedy delves ever deeper into movies.
The crisis in Darfur—the slaughter of 400,000 black African citizens by the Arab-led Sudanese government and its Janjaweed militia—compels the…
Never mind the latest troop surge. The latest Iraq war doc damningly indicts its original architects.
You think they’re dead, these zombie-film parodies, but one after another, they keep lumbering back. Not much brain activity, alas,…
Willis rejects digital reboot in favor of rusty action-flick mechanics.
Based on a serialized novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui, this loopy anime from director Satoshi Kon (Millennium Actress) isn’t a movie…
Made on the cheap for the horror-loving kids at Lionsgate, this freaky-deaky psycho-thriller from New Hollywood survivor William Friedkin is…
Compulsive dog rescuer Molly Shannon attains a nutty kind of grace.
Danish Oscar nominee offers intense psychological discomfort.
Concert doc fails to make sense of sprawling English music fest.
Look what the tide dragged in.
Christina Ricci gets skinny and slutty so Samuel L. Jackson can play the blues.
Opens at Uptown, Fri., Dec. 22. Rated PG. 110 minutes.
Runs at Varsity, Fri., Sept. 29–Thurs., Oct. 5. Not rated. 90 minutes.
Opens at Neptune and other theaters, Fri., Dec. 22. Rated R. 114 minutes.
