With its sterile anonymity and forced intimacy, it’s hard not to think of the audition room as an amalgam of…
Asger Leth’s documentary explores the Port-au-Prince slum Cité Soleil, identified by a U.N. agency as the “most dangerous place on…
I guess the air was even thinner at Sundance this year, where Rocket Science was embraced, sold, and lazily compared…
This is less an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s 1999 novel than of its dust-jacket synopsis, which will come as disconcerting…
The Exterminating Angels Weinstein, $24.95 A better name for Jean-Claude Brisseau’s X-rated apologia might’ve been The Guy Can’t Help It….
Beba (Norma Aleandro) is a middle-aged woman-child clinging to the shards of her fortune as the Argentine economy falls apart….
In this third installment of the guilty-pleasure Rush Hour series, squeaky-voiced LAPD cop James Carter (Chris Tucker) once again teams…
Drawing equally from declamatory African traditions and European modernist procedures, Bamako stages a kind of Third World Epic Theater. Set…
A smarmy score, some orgiastic farting from a herd of walruses, and a modicum of cutesy anthropomorphism from narrator Queen…
Director Leon Ichaso, already responsible for mucking up a made-for-TV Jimi Hendrix biopic, is back at it with this turgid…
The Saturday Night Live comedy trio of Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer—collectively known as the Lonely Island—shot to…
In which our hero confronts his programmers in Langley. Bauer would not approve.
Not, alas, a biopic of the Simpsons’ god-fearing neighbor. The latest from philosophy-professor-turned-cineaste Bruno Dumont marks a return to the…
Off duty, according to this slickly pleasurable addition to the Jane Austen spin-off canon, our lady of graceful letters was…
Lights derives scant excitement from its melodramatic plot, which satisfies a dismal, ineluctable formula with stultifying efficiency. Nor is it…
Inspired by the eponymous, semi-skanky dolls that launched a thousand parental protests, this tween comedy does a good job rebranding…
A cross between Dekalog and The Meaning of Life, though without the poignant curiosity of the former or the anarchic…
An excellent argument for a vasectomy, the Swiss-made Vitus offers up another one of those annoying child prodigies who just…
In his big-screen debut, Homer Simpson utters the “D’oh!” heard round the world—or at least as far away as Washington,…
Steve Buscemi the director is nothing like the art-damaged auteur Buscemi the actor played in 1995’s Living in Oblivion. No…
