Teen Sex Comedies Without Borders could be an NGO, for there is something perversely hopeful in the way Ben Palmer’s…
It’s hard to imagine an experimental Danish documentary siphoning off too much Best Actor attention. But make no mistake: In…
Julie Delpy’s sequel to her 2007 2 Days in Paris calls back many of the same characters and more than…
Spike Lee returns to the Brooklyn of his most famous early works. There, a sustained single take—tracking his protagonists as…
David Koepp writes, and now directs, superior B-movies. This is an admirable and tough-to-master skill given how few major movie…
A documentary composed of vignettes of Europe by night, shot as though through the eyes of some inquisitive, unobtrusive, silent…
Writer/director Christophe Honoré revisits the musical—the genre of his biggest stateside hit, Love Songs (2007)—in Beloved, a sprawling mess of…
Prepare to have your assumptions pitched out the window by this tense, surprisingly probing satirical documentary—not just about religious longing…
It’s a credit to Side by Side—an impressively thorough, expertly assembled survey of the debate surrounding the movie industry’s transition…
Smart, funny stand-up comic Mike Birbiglia has already based a book and a touring show on his biographical woes, some…
Screening the history of bootlegging in urban America led to the invention of a genre—the gangster film—but moviegoers have seen…
The one-named Seattle critic known as Vern has this to say about The Expendables 2 and the state of action…
David Cronenberg talks about Cosmopolis.
A cheap, silly car-chase movie with a cute girl, Hit & Run wouldn’t stand out during the August doldrums without…
Nazis on the moon? What could possibly go wrong? The premise to this Finnish sci-fi spoof is golden: Hitler sent…
Whether it strikes you as a profound, perspective-shifting spiritual travelogue, or the cinematic equivalent of a forgettable New Age music…
Picking up where his 2004 Tarnation left off, Jonathan Caouette’s new documentary is no less hermetic, autobiographical, messy, and ultimately…
Fluid, open-ended documentaries that demand more of an audience than foregone assent or fleeting bouts of passive outrage are rare…
Country-music devotees will either love or hate this speculative account of the last three days in the life of Hank…
Social media’s role in the would-be Iranian revolution of 2009 is by this point much hyped, but no one has…
