As a longtime series writer on The Sopranos, Terence Winter admirably steered clear of most of the hoary old organized…
Brenda Blethyn’s trademark histrionics—maternal blubbering and drama-queen shrillness—worked smashingly for her intentionally trying role in Secrets & Lies, but her…
How many thousands of pounds has Christian Bale lost and gained and lost again from The Machinist to Batman Begins…
Nothing has turned out as expected for Nora, the drifting, doleful heroine played by Parker Posey in Broken English, writer-director…
On a gallery wall, one of the slag heaps or pit mines or ship-breaking beaches captured by Canadian photographer Edward…
If the sight gag is dead, this excruciatingly precious Belgian comedy is less a resurrection than an autopsy. Made by…
A blitzed-looking man stumbling out of a screening of this dreadful excuse for unromantic comedy volunteered that the best part…
Back in the late ’80s and early ’90s, the Montana-born director John Dahl made a name for himself with a…
You think they’re dead, these zombie-film parodies, but one after another, they keep lumbering back. Not much brain activity, alas,…
Michael Bay completes his totalitarian assault on the average American filmgoer. Just like we asked him to.
In the kooky little Canadian town of Wawa, whose chief selling point is a 30-foot statue of a goose, a…
Black Snake Moan Paramount, $29.99 The best place to see Craig Brewer’s mash-up of blood-boiling exploitation elements would’ve been a…
“We’re Americans. We go into other countries when we need to. It’s tricky, but it works.” So declares Michael Moore…
Willis rejects digital reboot in favor of rusty action-flick mechanics.
Given a choice between importance and obsession, I’ll always bet on the latter as a good documentary subject. In his…
Parked uneasily between sensitive indie and studio chick flick, Lajos Koltai’s Evening makes star-studded hash of Susan Minot’s beautifully written,…
In the new animated feature by The Incredibles director Brad Bird, a rat of rarefied palate (and exceptional olfactory ability)…
The Bridge Koch Lorber, $26.98 Maybe you’re the type who tends not to watch real people kill themselves on film….
Movie buffs who don’t know their way around the Great White Way will be struck by the endless parallels to…
Like all voyeurs, Jackie (Kate Dickie) lacks a life to call her own outside of her job manning a police…
