It’s 1973. The dirt has barely settled on Bruce Lee’s grave, and the exploitation rush is on. A producer with…
“Hold still”–it’s what the hunters say to the hunted in the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men. The first…
Every musical-footnote band eventually gets the documentary it deserves, and this ragged, affectionate chronicle suits the forgotten acid-folk curio combo…
Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis can trace their roots back to a couple of patches of Iowa soil their respective…
Vince Vaughn delves into the preteen demo, hoping that parents will enjoy the added value of seeing their favorite wiseass…
Less a war drama than a set of dueling position papers, Robert Redford’s Lions for Lambs may be the gabbiest…
There’s no disputing the sincerity with which Steve Sawalich tells the true-life tale of Richard Pimentel, the man more or…
After being KO’d in the underground parking garage of her Manhattan office building, Angela (Rachel Nichols), a workaholic executive, wakes…
In 1962, U.S. Army Pvt. James Dresnok walked north across the Korean demilitarized zone, firing upon his own troops as…
Eytan Fox continues his exploration of Israeli and Palestinian queer identity in The Bubble, a favorite from SIFF ’07 and…
Julien Temple’s engrossing portrait of the late Clash frontman uses snippets of everything from Raging Bull to an animated Animal…
Can-do pep is the resonant key in Ted Braun’s profile of six individuals, spread across three continents, working to provide…
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…
Anyone wishing to ponder the origins and fate of the European New Left, as well as the development of political…
In Between Days is instantly compelling. Dwarfed inside a fur-rimmed parka, a young girl trumps through snow, her silhouette framed…
Bagi (nonprofessional Batzul Khayankhyarvaa) is a young Mongol herder sharing a yurt with his depleted family on their ancestral steppes,…
More even-handed than you might expect, this SIFF 2007 documentary about conscientious objectors in the U.S. military doesn’t just preach…
American Silent Horror Collection Kino, $49.95 Four silent horror films with excellent extras make this a great box for that…
American Gangster is a movie with obvious gravitas and a familiar argument: Organized crime is outsider capitalism. As archetypal as…
As cinema progresses past some of the awareness-raising limitations of conventional journalism, we’re watching more docs on genocide, abortion, global…
