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Gunnin for That No. 1 Spot: Adam Yauch presents his own Hoop Dreams
Beastie Boy Adam Yauch’s sports documentary concerns a phenomenon proliferated by the broadband age: premature national sports stardom…
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Yella: Corporate con artists in Germany
You’ve seen this movie before, only not in German. Fleeing an abusive and possibly dangerous ex-husband, Yella (the…
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PICK Encounters at the End of the World: Werner Herzog loves frozen wasteland, hates penguins
Give this guy his own TV show already. Three years after Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog is back with…
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Garden Party: Just another indie soap opera set in decadent L.A.
In an attempt to score some serious indie cred, writer-director Jason Freeland crams as many random situations involving…
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Sputnik Mania: Tin can in orbit causes terrestrial terror!
Seen at SIFF last year as The Fever of ’57, this documentary makes you nostalgic for the MSM.…
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Hancock: Will Smith aint so super
As the indestructible title character, Will Smith is a Man of Steel who’d rather melt into a puddle…
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PICK: The Gits: Last weeks cover band gets its documentary due
They were named for a Monty Python sketch. Occasioned by this documentary (seen at SIFF ’05), Hannah Levin’s…
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Brick Lane: Read Monica Alis novel again instead
Bracket the fact that it’s an adaptation of Monica Ali’s great big treat of a 2003 novel about…
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Kit Kittredge: An American Girl: Little miss, minus the sunshine
Unimpeachably proto-feminist and racially inclusive, this tween drama, based on several “American Girl” books about a cub reporter…
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PICK: Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson: Writer refuses to stay dead
As expected, Hunter S. Thompson’s 2005 suicide has been trailed by a glut of unauthorized bios and half-baked…
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Mother of Tears: Asia Argento barely survives her fathers botch job
Smashed heads! Smashed faces! A woman disemboweled and hanged with her own guts! Vaginal impalement with, er, a…
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PICK My Winnipeg: Guy Maddin reimagines his Canadian childhood.
Guy Maddin’s frozen reverie on Canada’s “Gateway to the West” is barely defrosted by the warmth…
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PICK Wall-E: We love this little cube dude
Many will attempt to describe WALL-E with a one-liner. It’s R2-D2 in love. 2001: A Space…
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Fugitive Pieces: Out of the Holocaust, and into the fugue of memory
In this English-language Canadian drama, based on the award-winning novel by poet Anne Michaels, Jakob, a young Polish…
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When Did You Last See Your Father?: Colin Firth and other Brits fret about their families
Directed by Anand Tucker with the same intelligent tact he brought to Hilary and Jackie, and cleanly adapted…
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PICK Up the Yangtze: Progress has its way with the hapless peasants of China
“It’s hard being a human, but being a common person in China is even more difficult,” says one…
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Frownland: Life in Brooklyneven more fraught than on Capitol Hill
Bringing us much too close for comfort to a stuttering, snot-nosed 20-something Brooklynite named Keith (played with freakish…
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Wanted: Angelina Jolie gives us all the guns and violence we could ask of a summer movie
Of the summer’s many revenge-of-the-nerd fulfillment fantasies—from The Incredible Hulk to The Foot Fist Way—Wanted stands the best…
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The Children of Huang Shi
Jonathan Rhys Meyers saves the orphans (for innocent purposes, of course).