Martian Child certainly isn’t much fun, unless you were desperately awaiting K-PAX with a kid instead of Kevin Spacey. Not…
This well-wrought indie, written and directed by Goran Dukic, has to be the Kewpie doll of current zombie flicks: Its…
Less Sidney Lumet’s comeback than his resurrection, this violent family melodrama is his strongest movie in at least two decades….
One could fill this entire space with the titles of films from which writer-director Peter Hedges nicks his story, but…
In documenting the post-Katrina lives of several members of New Orleans’ enormous black evacuee population, Alex LeMay’s Desert Bayou makes…
Rock films come in two forms. The first is the concert/documentary variety, the best of which dynamically pinpoint a band’s…
Ridley Scott’s vanguard science-fiction epic returns to the big screen for its 25th anniversary, digitally tweaked in hundreds of ways,…
The 18 titles in this retrospective are the work of a social anthropologist with an unapologetic Darwinian streak. Postwar Japan…
Crazy Love Magnolia, $26.98 Burt Pugach has always been nuts for Linda Riss—so nuts that he almost killed her rather…
Kenneth Branagh’s ferociously arty, vacuous remake of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1972 movie pares the action down to a slim two-hander…
Though it opens with the cathartic spectacle of Anita Bryant getting a cream pie in the kisser and closes with…
Call it The Death of the Cool. Anchoring the Earshot Jazz film series at NWFF, Let’s Get Lost stands as…
How painful to watch Ryan Gosling, one of the most elastic actors of his generation, smirk and gawp and grimace…
While her friends play cops and robbers, broodingly precocious 9-year-old Anna (Nina Kervel) is asked by younger brother François to…
Named for the spot in Christian-fundamentalist hell where sinners are condemned to spend eternity, Tony Kaye’s Lake of Fire is…
An irresistible subject for a documentary: the charming celebrity of Marla Olmstead, an artist from upstate New York whose talent…
If you’ve always yearned to see Halle Berry’s earlobe magnified to a hundred times its normal size, get yourself to…
For all its brave rhetoric about 9/11 and the Constitution, Gavin Hood’s slick thriller about American outsourcing of terror interrogations…
Writer Steve Niles and illustrator Ben Templesmith’s three-issue comic-book series, originally published in 2002, spawned a subsequent franchise and now…
“Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid,” Raymond…
