There are two movies struggling against each other in this affectionate, intimate documentary by Pip Chodorov. One is the titular…
Originally slated to open in September 2012, Gangster Squad was delayed when the movie-theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, suddenly made…
To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, one must have a heart of stone to watch Jacques Audiard’s outrageous melodrama without laughing. Loosely…
Actress Kelyna Lecomte has the rare gift of never being boring—probably because she’s 4. For much of this near-wordless French…
Most of the blathering this year about the death of film and film culture has already evaporated from the mind,…
Most of the blathering this year about the death of film and film culture has already evaporated from the mind,…
Just so you know, it’s going to take a while,” says the CIA officer to his newly arrived colleague at…
Simultaneously withholding and smothering, Francine, about a woman just released from prison, provides Melissa Leo (in the title role) another…
When the words “true story” appear twice in a film’s opening disclaimer, it’s a guarantee that what follows will include…
The ravishing and kitschy Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away 3-D is the rare movie whose title accurately indicates whether you’d…
Salesmen are typically depicted onscreen as the quintessential American phonies. That one set of phonies are being dramatically indicted by…
Rock and roll proves the coming-of-age crucible in Not Fade Away, Sopranos creator David Chase’s semiautobiographical feature debut of shaggy…
Squeaking by with an Obama 2012aE”size victory margin, Paul Thomas Anderson’s thrillingly strange The Master tops this year’s Film Critics’…
More than ever, boiling this concluding year down to the 10 “best” movies feels both arbitrary and reductive. Ideally, I’d…
Set in East Germany in 1980, Christian Petzold’s superb Barbara is a transfixing Cold War thriller made even more vivid…
Now a prosperous Hollywood insider, he tells of his struggle to make Django Unchained.
Watching Django Unchained, it’s easy to imagine that Quentin Tarantino had such a blast making Inglourious Basterds that he decided to take his…
Once comic actors reach a particular career stage, they often choose one of two paths: a) They stop being funny…
Sadly, country songwriters stand as nearly the only entertainers in our popular culture who craft memorable art on the subject…
You can hear the people sing—really hear them—in the long-gestating screen version of that Broadway juggernaut Les Misérables. Countering the…
