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Malick and Kubrick Are Ready for Christmas
American Silent Horror Collection Kino, $49.95 Four silent horror films with excellent extras make this a great box…
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American Gangster: Denzel Washington Gets All Godfather
American Gangster is a movie with obvious gravitas and a familiar argument: Organized crime is outsider capitalism. As…
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Sharkwater: Endangered Species Upstaged by Self-Appointed Savior in a Speedo
As cinema progresses past some of the awareness-raising limitations of conventional journalism, we’re watching more docs on genocide,…
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Martian Child: Future Box Office Will Make John Cusack Wish He Were on Mars
Martian Child certainly isn’t much fun, unless you were desperately awaiting K-PAX with a kid instead of Kevin…
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Wristcutters: Death Is the New Aphrodisiac
This well-wrought indie, written and directed by Goran Dukic, has to be the Kewpie doll of current zombie…
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Before the Devil Knows Youre Dead: Philip Seymour Hoffman Will Rob His Own Parents!
Less Sidney Lumet’s comeback than his resurrection, this violent family melodrama is his strongest movie in at least…
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Dan in Real Life: Steve Carells Second Stinker This Year
One could fill this entire space with the titles of films from which writer-director Peter Hedges nicks his…
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Desert Bayou: Katrinas Refugees in the Mormon State
In documenting the post-Katrina lives of several members of New Orleans’ enormous black evacuee population, Alex LeMay’s Desert…
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Control: Joy Division Return From the Grave
Rock films come in two forms. The first is the concert/documentary variety, the best of which dynamically pinpoint…
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Blade Runner: Harrison Ford Takes Us Back to the Future (1982)
Ridley Scott’s vanguard science-fiction epic returns to the big screen for its 25th anniversary, digitally tweaked in hundreds…
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A Man Vanishes: The Legacy of Shohei Imamura
The 18 titles in this retrospective are the work of a social anthropologist with an unapologetic Darwinian streak.…
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Steve Carells First Stinker This Year. And More!
Crazy Love Magnolia, $26.98 Burt Pugach has always been nuts for Linda Riss—so nuts that he almost killed…
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Sleuth: Jude Law Embraces Homophobia and Misogyny
Kenneth Branagh’s ferociously arty, vacuous remake of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1972 movie pares the action down to a…
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For the Bible Tells Me So: Scripture May Not Be So Queer-Averse
Though it opens with the cathartic spectacle of Anita Bryant getting a cream pie in the kisser and…
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Let’s Get Lost: Chet Baker as Gorgeous 50s Ghost
Call it The Death of the Cool. Anchoring the Earshot Jazz film series at NWFF, Let’s Get Lost…
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Lars and the Real Girl: Ryan Gosling in Painful Misfire
How painful to watch Ryan Gosling, one of the most elastic actors of his generation, smirk and gawp…
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Blame It on Fidel!: Adorable Preteen French Communists
While her friends play cops and robbers, broodingly precocious 9-year-old Anna (Nina Kervel) is asked by younger brother…
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Lake of Fire: Like the Abortion Wars Never Ended
Named for the spot in Christian-fundamentalist hell where sinners are condemned to spend eternity, Tony Kaye’s Lake of…
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My Kid Could Paint That: Most Adorable Art Fraud Ever!
An irresistible subject for a documentary: the charming celebrity of Marla Olmstead, an artist from upstate New York…
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Things We Lost in the Fire: Only Benicio Del Toro Is Worth Saving
If you’ve always yearned to see Halle Berry’s earlobe magnified to a hundred times its normal size, get…