Light, airy, and sweet, Patrice Leconte’s latest comedy swings his favorite premise—fruitful encounters between opposites—away from romance and into the…
DNA testing has not only revolutionized our criminal justice system, it’s also given documentary filmmakers a whole new genre of…
It is the year 2057. Approximately 5 billion years ahead of schedule, the sun is beginning to die. In a…
African director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s austere, hypnotic third feature—also known as Dry Season—explores the legacy of Chad’s decades-long civil war. When…
Directed by the Dutch expatriate filmmaker Rolf de Heer, this sometimes bawdy (remember: “Never trust a man with a small…
Led by a magic flute that not all can hear, avant-pop marches on: Tsai Ming-liang’s I Don’t Want to Sleep…
Having ascended to genre supremacy, the biopic has long since reached its imaginative low—so much so that the banality of…
Dynamite Warrior Magnolia, $26.98 What does it mean when the makers of the mighty Ong-Bak produce another blast of Muay…
In this by-the-recipe remake of 2001’s German chocolate cake Mostly Martha, Catherine Zeta-Jones plays Kate, a top chef in New…
Everybody at Cannes says Javier Bardem makes a marvelous villain in the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men. Here,…
Don’t wait for Jasmine Dellal’s doc to end up broken between pledge-drive pitches: This joyous portrait of the 2001 “Gypsy…
Neither salacious nor cinematic, this tepid third treatment of
Hairspray is only notable for its casting.
I wanted to hate this caper about two straight firefighters (Adam Sandler and Kevin James) pretending to be gay for…
Wong Kar-wai on aisle four and Michel Gondry on aisle six, with Kevin Smith as mop jockey at all points…
Pascale Ferran’s magnificently sensual adaptation of an earlier version of D.H. Lawrence’s novel isn’t remotely bawdy, but it is candidly,…
Bahman Ghobadi, Dogpatch fabulist and dean of Iranian Kurdish cinema, leads another magical mystery tour through his mountainous homeland—populated, per…
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand’s leading experimental filmmaker and international man of mystery, isn’t exactly a master of suspense. Still, the 37-year-old…
Voted top film at the Local Sightings fest last fall, Brady Hall’s debut feature is set out in the sticks,…
Every few decades, we get a superior demon-child thriller (see: The Bad Seed, The Omen). In part they work because…
Our Very Own Miramax, $29.99 “New!” shouts the sticker on the shrink-wrap of this two-year-old, small-town-in-’78-set melodramedy. It stars Allison…
