A zealous gumbo of regionalism, magical realism, post-Katrina allegory, myth, and ecological parable, Beasts, the southern Louisiana-set debut feature of…
One of out every five professional baseball players in the U.S. comes from the Dominican Republic. Take a second to…
Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Elena is a tale of two apartments: a spacious chrome, glass, and marble luxury flat that might be…
More than 40 years after the Carpenters made Paul Williams’ “Rainy Days and Mondays” a hit, the flamboyant songwriter, performer,…
In this documentary, Kirby Dick lays bare the scandalous epidemic of rape in the U.S. armed forces—the war on women…
What it lacks in artfulness, Wish Me Away makes up for in emotive force. Bobbie Birleffi and Beverly Kopf’s documentary…
Spider-Man’s story is some primal-ass teenage wish fulfillment: nerds beating jocks, astonishing old people, romancing hot girls, dangling criminals from…
First be warned, this animated French tale about a cat burglar and his companion in crime, a cat, has been…
Alex Ross Perry’s second feature, shot in 16mm black-and-white, is an offhand-picturesque road-trip movie with a mock-epic Northeastern itinerary. It’s…
Only once is the director’s voice heard in Natalia Almada’s ruminative yet potent documentary about the carnage that has piled…
If women were in charge, there’d be peace in the Middle East—or at least that’s what’s suggested by the second…
An episodic ensemble piece based on cases handled by Paris’ Child Protection Unit, Polisse is a mutant beast: Imagine an…
I have seen many passable minds of my generation fritter away their best creative years working on tributes to the…
Not yet 30, local filmmaker Shaun Scott has an unusual affinity for history and archival footage. Both are woven deeply…
Let us now take this moment to praise Michael Bay. In a Hollywood career devoted to blowing shit up, he’s…
In one week, Frank (Joel Murray), a divorced, 50ish, glumly alcoholic white-collar worker, loses his job, becomes completely estranged from…
Gotham’s contradictory dedication to both bohemianism and unchecked greed is exposed in photographer Josef Astor’s bleak Lost Bohemia. Astor was…
Documentary filmmakers have long been drawn to the notorious Louisiana State Penitentiary, a huge complex known as Angola, with its…
In 1991, Montana wolf biologist Pat Tucker and her husband Bruce Weide began raising a wolf pup at the request…
Journalist Phil Campbell wrote a book (Zioncheck for President) about his getting booted from The Stranger and subsequently running the…
