Critics for Seattle Weekly and the Village Voice have submitted their votes in this year’s film poll. Here are the…
Homo history repurposed as courtroom soap opera. Director Travis Fine, greatly embellishing a script written decades ago by George Arthur…
Co-directed by Sarah Burns, Ken Burns (her dad), and David McMahon, this documentary revives New York’s fear of crime and…
It’s dispiriting that a film about the romantic life of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who cultivated a small coterie of mistresses,…
Distinguished only by its fantastic ensemble cast—including Kate Mara and Treat Williams—Stefan Ruzowitzky’s Deadfall just isn’t manic enough to be…
Anyone still hoping that Elliott Gould will end the string of schlemiels he has been playing since Bugsy will be…
Peter Jackson’s new Tolkien adaptation has been supersized for three holiday seasons.
Curated by Village Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl.Published on December 5, 2012
A wan comedy about gambling that takes no risks, Stephen Frears’ Lay the Favorite has none of the stinging sordidness…
A highly improvised fictional exposé in search of the elusive heart and soul of hipster nihilism, The Comedy stars alt-comic…
Recently, popular films about gay characters have started moving beyond the overarching plot about society’s acceptance of sexual identity and…
Apichatpong Weerasethakul is an acquired taste. Either you go for his slow, dreamy, ghost-haunted Thai dramas or you don’t. Yet…
Good Bets for Oscar: Even if, deep in your cinephile heart, you feel utter disdain for the Academy Awards and…
The Campaign, which was released today and stars Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis, is the latest in a long line…
We dug through the Voice’s archives of publicity stills, looking for horror, sci-fi or otherwise weird publicity images from films…
A lament for lost carnage — and coherence — of action movies. Read more: Action Movies Don’t Have to Suck…
Deep into Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates’ bouillon-dense fever dream of a novel, Marilyn Monroe at last manages to make it…
Early in this movie, Alfred Hitchcock (played by Sir Anthony Hopkins with a sack of fat connecting chin to neck)…
David Giancola’s cheapo, disingenuous doc contributes one painful scene to the collective understanding of what it must feel like to…
An adaptation of George V. Higgins’ 1974 novel Cogan’s Trade, Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly anatomizes a self-policing underground economy…