If you recently had a close encounter with the howling demon known as Superstorm Sandy, you might have a renewed…
Sometimes when you appropriate the storytelling modes of other cultures or time periods, the result is an enormous, semi-informed embarrassment…
Visiting SIFF this June with The Details, Jacob Aaron Estes was also returning to the location where he’d shot the…
He’s glimpsed only briefly in Katie Dellamaggiore’s magnanimous look into the agonies and ecstasies of the country’s top-rated junior-high chess…
Movies about drugs and alcohol may be a dime(bag) a dozen, but James Ponsoldt’s Smashed is so beautifully shot and…
Daniel Day Lewis Is Amazing
Google “Danzig shopping for cat supplies,” and you’ll find links to phone-cam shots of former Misfits singer Glenn Danzig crossing…
Shot in Seattle and seen at SIFF this spring, this dark comedy’s release was delayed by Harvey Weinstein’s scissors after…
Eugene Jarecki’s Sundance award-winning doc is an occasionally muddled disquisition on the colossal failure of the war on drugs. It…
While Head Games does feature a number of articulate and consistently intelligent talking-head interviews, it’s ultimately not a satisfying advocacy…
Woody Allen has been known to suggest that, in directing a good movie, much of the battle lies in casting….
Ursula Meier’s Sister is a Dardenne-lite drama about a 12-year-old boy’s efforts to support himself and his older sister by…
This found-footage eco-horror cheapie—in which a waterborne parasite mutates into an unstoppable human-flesh-eating scourge thanks to the march of progress…
Less inept than its worst-of-the-year title suggests, Frankie nonetheless proves too ramshackle and aimless ever to achieve true absurdity. Already…
The yammering about “Oscar gold” and Denzel Washington’s potential three-peat will soon reach a deafening pitch, but such noise can…
Ross McElwee attempts to understand his son in the present day by revisiting his own past in this autobiographical doc,…
Lisa Ohlin’s Simon and the Oaks has all the superficial elements of compelling drama but none of the interiority; it…
Bent on futzing with the form, this biopic bears the strong authorial stamp of its subject, but nonetheless looks like…
“You were really and truly inside me,” Helen Hunt’s sex surrogate Cheryl assures her client, 36-year-old Mark O’Brien (John Hawkes),…
The Loneliest Planet begins with a close-up of a beautiful woman, naked and trembling. It’s not what it sounds like….
