In his first directing gig, adapting the 2003 young-adult coming-of-age novel by K.L. Going, actor Matthew Lillard (Scream, The Descendants)…
Less a bastardization than simply a watered-down and superfluous redo, Pusher faithfully mimics Nicolas Winding Refn’s 1996 Danish crime saga…
In 1992, Lithuania participated in its first Olympics as a sovereign country. Its basketball team featured a number of marquee…
The trailer for this gargantuan adaptation of David Mitchell’s 2004 novel, directed by two Wachowski siblings and Tom Tykwer, looks…
Gossip Girl and The O.C., Josh Schwartz’s teen TV shows, are sly bait-and-switches. Both are easily marketable for their hot…
It is difficult for residents of these sprawling United States to regard anything within the snug British Isles as truly…
After The Chorus and Paris 36, Christophe Barratier—one of France’s least interesting living directors—offers another gooey slice of Gallic nostalgia,…
In Martin McDonagh’s Seven Psychopaths, a prune-faced, simian-mouthed sexagenarian sits by the road in an old suit and brown-patterned tie,…
As the documentary equivalent of a group character study, Somewhere Between isn’t as sharply focused as you might hope. Director…
Pope John Paul II made hell briefly unfashionable, but the administration of Benedict XVI has retrieved Gehenna from metaphorical downgrade…
Raconteuse, epigrammatist, and mythomaniac, peerless fashion editor Diana Vreeland (1903–1989) might have loved words as much as she loved Balenciaga….
When it comes to cost-cutting, downsizing, and philosophical and practical compromise, how low is it possible to go before there’s…
English filmmaker Andrea Arnold’s atypical, impressionistic approach to Emily Brontë is her adaptation’s main hook. As with her Fish Tank…
Give some points to a genre flick whose style mashup reflects uneasy relations between Asia and the West just as…
Nonfiction stands out this year.
Writer/director Martin McDonagh contrives to have his hero, an Irish screenwriter with the “get it” name Marty (Colin Farrell), dressed…
Precious director Lee Daniels’ Southern Gothic noir pulp presents itself with the doubtful come-hither hospitality of a gator-filled swamp. Moistly…
Set amid the 1979–80 Iran hostage crisis, Ben Affleck’s Argo is a “gritty” historical drama overwhelmed by its love of…
With an incisive understanding of character, believably naturalistic acting, and lengthy scenes that don’t feel so much stretched out as…
You can’t go home again—or at least that’s the feeling of ex-jock Abi, who fails to make the cut for…
