Newly separated, Celeste (Rashida Jones) is told by her un-flamboyant queer co-worker (Elijah Wood), “It’s time get your fuck on.”…
A largely first-person documentary about living with a range of disorders, OC87 is also, in a sense, about a long…
After its Sundance premiere, Compliance might be infamous as the film that inspired a woman to cry out “Rape is…
After his Oscars for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus, the career of Czech-born director Miloš Forman has…
Robert Pattinson’s casting as Eric Packer, a 28-year-old finance prodigy ensconced in a stretch limo on a 24-hour odyssey across…
William Friedkin tells us about Killer Joe and what’s wrong with Hollywood.
“Lots of people hate anything that’s different,” says Cindy Green (Jennifer Garner) to her Pinterest/vision-board child Timothy (CJ Adams) while…
Taylor Guterson, son of the local novelist David Guterson, turns an affectionate eye on Northwest geezer-dom in this gentle comedy…
There is the expectation in a surfing movie that we should see plenty of wave-riding shots, those sun-bronzed gods astride…
Is there something intrinsic to these wide-net, “We’re all connected” ensemble movies that makes their authors think they need to…
At one point in Killer Joe, based on Tracy Letts’ play, a hideously funny tabloid noir set on the outskirts…
Ingeniously simple yet deceptively intricate, this French police thriller abounds in post-Woo/Tarantino action tropes: the usual galloping gun battles, absurdly…
“My son is sick right now, covered in zits. It’s not contagious — I mean, it’s contagious, but don’t worry:…
In terms of looks, charisma, and talent, Rashida Jones should have been a star a long time ago. But in…
Unforgivable? Interminable is more like it. Veteran writer/director André Téchiné (The Witnesses, The Girl on the Train) employs a kitchen-sink…
The Campaign begins with an onscreen quote attributed to Ross Perot: “War has rules. Mud-wrestling has rules. Politics has no…
Vividly bringing to life the question Don DeLillo poses in Cosmopolis—whether self-denial is a social responsibility—Lauren Greenfield’s new documentary tracks…
The transformation might be complete: The crap-and-gore, genre-mincing Tasmanian devil of Asian pulp psychosis, Takashi Miike, whom we’ve come to…
Like a great number of films dealing with supernatural and extraterrestrial phenomena, Red Lights is a thriller in which suspense…
This deft, atmospheric Errol Morris–style tour through the phenomenon that is “serial imposter” Frédéric Bourdin homes in on one brief…
