Although the tone of Steve Carell’s couples-counseling character in Hope Springs is consistently placid and evenhanded, it’s also tellingly vague….
Lucy (Mira Sorvino), a hot mess in a minidress and spike-heel boots, shows up in Manhattan, yappy little dog in…
Following the child runaways of Moonrise Kingdom, this small French drama has a 6-year-old girl (Wynona Ringer) flee into the…
The Bourne films have more than just overstayed their welcome and outlasted the Ludlum books—they’ve been Van Halenized, with an…
Startlingly intimate and direct, this first-person doc by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi requires multiple viewings for anyone eager to…
What with the recent U.S. embassy standoff and flight to freedom of blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, you can’t get…
Based on a TV series in Denmark (where broadcast standards are far different than here), Klown sends two 40-something bunglers…
People always end up the way they started out. No one ever changes, one character says in Todd Solondz’s significantly…
In a gymnasium, a clandestine four-person group meets to discuss its name. One member suggests “Alps,” explaining: “The mountains of…
Benoît Jacquot’s soapy, sexy, lezzie adaptation of Chantal Thomas’ 2003 novel about the chaos at Versailles on the eve of…
Switched-at-birth sagas don’t come much more convoluted than Chen Kaige’s latest period epic, about a doctor named Cheng Ying (Ge…
As the general run of action films blithely defies the laws of gravity and consequence, what a pleasure to find…
Aside from the incalculable human cost, World War II left in its wake property-rights issues whose repercussions are felt to…
We first encounter the subject of Crazy Eyes‘ character study mixing his drinks while damning the glittering void of L.A….
The “name” connected to Lovely Molly is that of director Eduardo Sánchez, one of the perpetrators of 1999’s Blair Witch…
I love a good bummer as much as the next man, and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles is certainly…
In one of The Well-Digger’s Daughter‘s most telling scenes, 18-year-old Patricia (Astrid Bergès-Frisbey) spends several minutes on the verge of…
With its novel approach and wider-than- usual scope, this riff on Margaret Atwood’s 2008 book-length essay, Payback: Debt and the…
Though a shallow repository of ideas, considered as a work of sheer sensation, Dark Knight Rises has something to recommend….
Sarah Polley’s second feature, much like her superb Away From Her (2006), thoughtfully probes the pitfalls of coupledom and third-party…
