“I’ve made six movies, and I feel like I’m only just finally figuring out how this business fucking works,” Paul…
New releases in the 70mm are relatively rare these days, with most effects-driven movies opting for 3D or IMAX instead. So when…
Kate Winslet we know, but whatever happened to Melanie Lynskey, her co-star in Peter Jackson’s 1994 Heavenly Creatures? The New…
What a strange thing for an actor to have been rehearsing one’s decline and death for so very long! Eastwood…
In admitting that “Master” Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman, offering a new twist on the roiling vulnerability Anderson has always…
Set in the small, depressed French seaside town of Lorient, 17 Girls makes a big deal about having been inspired…
Although the title of directors David Redmon and Ashley Sabin’s dual portrait of two players in the underage-modeling world might…
In the abbreviated life of French philosopher and sociopolitical activist Simone Weil (1909–1943), the daughter of agnostic Jews went to…
Taking all three jobs as writer/director/star, it shouldn’t be surprising that Josh Radnor is way too kind with his 35-year-old…
The method-y, elfin brooder-hipster star of the moment, Paul Dano has four movies out this year, but here is his…
A paradigmatic “portrait” documentary—the popular sort that eschews cultural information and risk to focus on “how it feels” to be…
There is no musical score for this Argentine road movie, only the incessant throbbing of a truck’s diesel engine. And…
Slick and grown-up as Richard Gere himself, this intricate fiscal thriller takes a dead bead on extreme privilege, with Gere’s…
For George Gregory—one of nine participants in the Fort Worth, Texas, horse-training competition profiled in this doc—the process of taming…
The bigger and better mousetraps of Paul W.S. Anderson
The idea that addiction (drugs, alcoholism) is a disease is still scoffed at in some quarters, but what traction the…
An unadorned, unsentimental portrait of a marriage, Yi Seung-jun’s documentary celebrates the daily life of an exceptionally collaborative couple. Young-chan…
In Leslye Headland’s Bachelorette, the bride’s wedding dress is in terrible danger, and you know it the second that Regan…
Marie Losier’s doc chronicles Psychic TV and Throbbing Gristle founder Genesis Breyer P-Orridge’s recent career and second marriage, both defined…
For three months in 2010, Serbian-born performance artist Marina Abramovic sat in a chair in a gallery at New York’s…
