As with meat processing and politics, the day-to-day drama, tedium, and heartbreak of prostitution have little to do with our…
Right from the start, this documentary lets viewers know there will be no easy answers to the questions it’s posing,…
The first fiction feature in a dozen years from visionary British director Terence Davies is a film about love that…
Drawing baths and listening to classical music, refined soldier of fortune Martin (Willem Dafoe) is sent Down Under by a…
Thoroughly researched and packed with phenomenal archival footage, Kevin Macdonald’s documentary on the reggae and Rasta emissary, who died of…
Celebrity scientist and PBS fixture David Suzuki arrives late to the global-warming-documentary party with this combination of biography and filmed…
If you’re going to trap the leads of a romantic comedy on a red-eye flight from L.A. to New York,…
In 2010, internationally celebrated Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was arrested at his home and sentenced to six years in prison…
Appearing in every frame of Applause, Thea Barfoed (Paprika Steen), an aging actress and recovering alcoholic trying to get her…
Arriving in theaters on a wave of free publicity (its distributor, the Weinstein Company, butted heads with the MPAA over…
Now is an excellent time to release a biopic of Aung San Suu Kyi, the inspiring Burmese democracy activist and…
Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi) is a 40- something Talmudic scholar whose research has earned adulation while his 60-something father’s has…
As in his directorial debut, Mid-August Lunch, Gianni Di Gregorio stars in this quiet comedy—this time as Giovanni, a man…
When even the cops in this Turkish police story begin joking about bladder control, you know you’re in for a…
This latest episode in the ongoing American Pie saga, handled by the Harold & Kumar writer/director team of Jon Hurwitz…
Much less the rabble-rouser than 2008’s Burma VJ, Robert H. Lieberman’s two years of firsthand reportage from that country was…
Using a fluid naturalism to establish its afterglow vibe, Four Lovers follows two married couples as they swap partners and…
Lean, fast-moving, and filled with brutally beautiful (or beautifully brutal) game-changing fight sequences, Gareth Evans’ Indonesian martial-arts film lives up…
Documentarian Robert Greene chaperones 18-year-old Kati Genthner through the three days before her graduation (with honors) from Pleasant Valley High…
In the new film from Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Cyril (Thomas Doret), a scrappy 11-year-old living in an urban orphanage,…
