Chalk it up to personal preference, but I’ve always been fonder of those comic-book heroes who emerge by intent rather…
If the great movie musicals of yesteryear put a song in your heart, Christophe Honoré’s Love Songs leaves you with…
The Station Agent‘s writer/director, Tom McCarthy, follows up that surprise success with another self-consciously whimsical tale of an unlikely threesome—except…
Co-directed by Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue—yes, that Phil Donahue, who will do a Q&A following the 7 p.m. Friday…
From the washed-out images to the twee voice-over (courtesy of director Stephen Walker), this British television documentary about the titular…
On-screen and off, George Clooney is like a holdover from a time—which, admittedly, may only have ever existed in the…
The Band’s Visit made headlines last fall after being disqualified as Israel’s foreign-language submission to the 2008 Academy Awards—an ironic…
Remember the 1985 movie version of the Parker Brothers whodunit board game Clue, with its pre-DVD-era gimmick of multiple endings?…
Is Fool’s Gold really a new movie, or just some infernal clip reel cut together from that other Matthew…
A year after winning the screenplay and audience awards at Sundance 2007, writer-director James C. Strouse’s Grace Is Gone has…
Manhattan is under attack! Wheres Will Smith to save us from shaky cameras, blathering YouTube actors, and cheap scares?
“I do think the writing is pessimistic—all that stuff about life being a tragic experience,” says Angela Stark (played by…
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: Sondheim Plus Blood Equals Excellence
At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the American painter turned filmmaker Julian Schnabel (Basquiat, Before Night Falls) won the jury’s…
There are two momentous performances in the Darwinian horror fable I Am Legend. One is by the movie’s star, Will…
Meet Pedro Costa, the Portuguese master of maximalist minimalism.
A Masterful, Multifaceted Portrait of Dylan.
“Hold still”–it’s what the hunters say to the hunted in the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men. The first…
There are no windmills, only wind—and trees and grass and sunlight extinguishing the dawn—in writer-director Albert Serra’s extraordinary, minimalist/naturalist take…
Ridley Scotts vanguard science-fiction epic returns to the big screen for its 25th anniversary, digitally tweaked in hundreds of ways,…
