Trouble paying attention in class, low self-esteem, hormonal confusion, counting the days until summer vacation—and those are just the teachers…
After the deathly dull, faux-hipster muddle that was Ethan Hawke’s directorial debut, Chelsea Walls, expectations aren’t exactly high for the…
In the new Neil Jordan movie, Jodie Foster plays New York talk-radio host Erica Bain, who survives a vicious Central…
Bad Santa gets worse every time he trots out the same mean routine; does anyone at this late date recall…
After Hair and the mass marketing of tie-dye, can the ’60s be shrunk to fit any further? Yes, indeed, here…
Johnnie To is the lone Hong Kong action director who’s done his best work in the aftermath of the crown…
Loosely drawn from Mark Boal’s 2004 Playboy investigative piece about the killing of a soldier who went AWOL while on…
In this extremely violent, guilty pleasure of a thriller, Clive Owen is a tough guy in a long leather coat…
Hey, Prague—you got punk’d! In this subversive Central European slice of reality TV, Czech film students Vít Klusák and Filip…
Huffing and puffing to resuscitate a long-moribund genre, James Mangold manages to imbue a 50-year-old Western with a semblance of…
Air Guitar Nation Docurama, $18.89 Alexandra Lipsitz’s doc about those about to rock with their bare hands and nothing more…
Drawing on memories of a specific place and time—England in the early ’80s—writer-director Shane Meadows nails the look and feel…
1. Balls of Fury is a movie about: (a) A former table-tennis prodigy (Dan Fogler as Randy Daytona) enlisted by…
Manhattan is not just Woody Allen’s dream movie. Wistful as it is witty, it’s his dream of the movies. Forty-four…
“I’ll leave it to someone else to be condescending and snarky,” says Mike Standish of his sweet-tempered 20-minute film, Fortune…
The epitome of New Wave pop art romanticism, the 1965 Pierrot le Fou is as evocative of its epoch as…
The 2005 sequel to Suicide Club, Sion Sono’s J-horror hit from 2002, this film follows young Noriko from her pastoral…
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Ace in the Hole Criterion, $39.95 I’m not sure when the phrase “media circus” entered the language, but it was…
The 24-year-old writer-director Monty Lapica makes an ill-advised stab at playing the 17-year-old version of himself in this autobiographical drama…
