Big Fox, $19.98 If, when you saw Big for the first or 14th time, you said to yourself, “Yeah, but…
It’s hard to remember, but back in the early 1990s, Hal Hartley was regarded as the hot young American indie…
The story thus far: Seven months have gone by since the Rage virus passed from chimp fang to British bloodstream…
In this superbly tacit chamber piece, intolerable pressure is brought to bear on the 44-year marriage between a college professor…
Jafar Panahi is a paradoxical populist. He makes crowd-pleasing art movies and is a virtuoso director of (non) actors. But…
Mildly quirky and zealously cute, Adrienne Shelly’s Waitress is the story of three irrepressible gal pals slinging pie and shooting…
Bestiality is the determinedly nonsnickering subject of Robinson Devor’s strenuously aestheticized treatment of the infamous 2005 Enumclaw Horse-Sex Incident. Seattle…
This is a story you’ve heard before: Inner-city kids falling to drugs/crime/pregnancy are saved by the power of music/dance/art. Don’t…
When career slacker Tom (Zach Braff) gets fired from his latest job, he packs up his wife, Sofia (Amanda Peet),…
Three noisy women and a worn-out premise rattle around trying to make contact in Georgia Rule, an incoherent dramedy of…
Two lambs to the slaughter, the Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in 1927 for a crime…
Mexico City’s Periférico freeway stands above an unknown number of graves holding some of the many men and women who…
The adverts promise a voyage to Tibet like we’ve never seen, but Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam’s vision of people…
Torpid third Spidey segment sags under character bloat, mission creep, and evil schizo tap dancing. Quit while you’re behind, Sam.
Disease of the week: manic depression.
Ever since his exquisite 1994 debut feature, Where the Rivers Flow North, the Vermont-based writer-director Jay Craven has devoted himself…
A 14-year-old Indian princess in the high Peruvian altaplana, “Madeinusa”—yes, that’s her allegorical name—is ripe for the plucking. With no…
Of all of Francis Veber’s farces (The Dinner Game, La Cage aux Folles, The Closet, etc.), this is the one…
With, say, a Fox Searchlight or some other mini-major behind it, director Paul Fox’s charming adaptation of Doug “Generation X”…
Bored suburban dad must choose between Kate Winslet and Jennifer Connelly.
