This year’s shorts offer a little something for every viewing temperament, though some categories require sitting through a lot of…
The live-action entries are a diverse mix. The clear winner of the pack is writer/director/star Luke Matheny’s God of Love,…
A droll comic fable about a water shortage, a battle of the sexes, and the teenage lovers caught in the…
If Alice in Wonderland were retold by the Mad Hatter, it might look something like the 3-D, stop-motion Coraline, in…
Don’t expect all 10 entries here, divided into the live-action and animated categories, to be mini-masterpieces. Nonetheless, there’s some lovely…
Some political documentaries suffer from overselling the urgency of their agenda, but director Gini Reticker’s Pray the Devil Back to…
In his usual underdog role, Adam Sandler palys a lowly Los Angeles handyman recruited by his sister (Courteney Cox) to…
So obsessed with mimicry it’s practically a tribute band of a movie, Dark Streets throws copious amounts of film-noir style…
This meager cross-cultural romantic comedy stars Jesse Metcalfe as ultra-smooth New York advertising executive Granger and Bollywood actress Shriya Saran…
Nights works so strenuously to satisfy its target audience’s every desire that it’s a minor surprise that the filmmakers didn’t…
Henry Poole is dying. Diagnosed with an unspecified fatal disease, Poole (Luke Wilson) retreats into the numbing sunniness of suburban…
A stubbornly affecting drama that’s far stronger in its quieter moments, writer-director Kari Skogland’s adaptation of the late Canadian novelist…
Though conceived as yet another sobering frontline report on law enforcement’s ever-expanding gray area, director David Ayer’s grim police thriller…
Rock films come in two forms. The first is the concert/documentary variety, the best of which dynamically pinpoint a band’s…
Formulaic but not cynical, The Final Season has some sweet, thoughtful passages in what is otherwise just one more well-meaning,…
Unemployed and living with his artist girlfriend, Pam (Rebecca Mader), in Charlotte, N.C., rudderless Martin (Pat Healy) takes a job…
With its sterile anonymity and forced intimacy, it’s hard not to think of the audition room as an amalgam of…
Finally, a B-movie that understands yelling and running.
Die, Sally Field, die!
