The only way to get behind Korean helmer Kim Ki-duk, really, is to confess that his unsavory scenarios resonate with…
No less than Spider-Man 3, Oren Rudavsky’s The Treatment is an urban fairy tale. It’s an Upper West Side story,…
Unlike the first overbaked Bean feature, this sequel, directed by Britcom veteran Steve Bendelack, doesn’t rely on refried versions of…
If you only see one gushy, poppy rock-doc about an influential singer-songwriter—renowned as much for his music as for his…
A troubled teenage girl, addicted to eyeliner and her iPod, has been expelled from school for smoking pot one too…
Shortly after graduating from film school, I took a part-time job as the assistant to a successful movie and television…
One of the American indies least likely to appear at Sundance, September Dawn recounts the grim tale of the 1857…
Director Rod Lurie can always find the overwrought in the mundane; his filmography (The Last Castle, The Contender, Deterrence) is…
If you took the blood out of the Aussie horror film Wolf Creek, which also claimed to be based on…
Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and now…Before Sunset With a Vengeance? Whatever the label, the Richard Linklater–less Julie Delpy now steps…
An overly serious drama/colossal hoot from the director of the dope-peddlin’ Empire (Franc. Reyes—and, yes, the period’s on purpose), this…
Leonardo DiCaprio wants you to know that we are in serious trouble. No amount of artful chin stubble, it seems,…
Kill me now. Frank Oz can do funny (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), but this retreat from the debacle of The Stepford…
Manoel de Oliveira’s poised, Parisian mood piece announces itself as an homage to Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière, co-writers of…
Danish provocateur Lars von Trier took a break from his much-ballyhooed (but financially disastrous) U.S.A. Trilogy to make this unexpectedly…
How an unemployed Eastside engineer triumphed on the
video screenand now the big screen, too.
Few people can claim to have read their way through the crowded text on one of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soap…
The latest comic meteorite to hurtle forth from the galaxy of producer Judd Apatow, Superbad is about a couple of…
Never mind the latest troop surge. The latest Iraq war doc damningly indicts its original architects.
Like many geniuses of comedy, France’s pre-eminent 17th-century playwright always felt like a tragedian manqué, a vanity that, had he…
