Best friends since college, Jason (Adam Scott) and Julie (Jennifer Westfeldt) witness the misery that seems to dominate the lives…
Set in the months before and after 1900, Bertrand Bonello’s glamorously louche House of Pleasures projects nostalgia for the Paris…
Holocaust culture has proven to be essentially infinite—almost 70 years after the end of World War II, untold stories of…
Directed by Oren Moverman from a script by Moverman and L.A. noir master James Ellroy, Rampart tracks the downward spiral…
Hit men have bills to pay, too, and sometimes a kid to feed and an anxious wife to placate even…
In Lynne Ramsay’s adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s 2003 novel, Tilda Swinton lives out an urban bohemian’s worst nightmare. Forced to…
Like the longhair with the foghorn falsetto it’s titled after, this unfussy rock-doc profile is shaggy, sophisticated, and more than…
If I said “Eskimo hip-hop crime tale,” would that send you running to the nearest sunny beach? Shot on location…
“There’s no one way to live our lives,” hopes the displaced, adrift couple at the center of Wanderlust. Shopping among…
In Michael R. Roskam’s first feature, 30ish Jacky (Matthias Schoenaerts) is a cattle-farming hulk who keeps his mini- fridge stocked…
In this Oscar nominee, the life of Cuban pianist and composer Bebo Valdés seems to have been translated first into…
A mellow doc that seems all set to cash in on the “spirituality” market, Jennifer Fox’s new film was actually…
Ewan McGregor previously worked with director David Mackenzie on the 2003 Young Adam, which featured frank sex, frontal male nudity,…
Hostilities in This Means War are declared as two workmates compete for the affection of the same woman. The contested…
Working the long con and damn near getting away with it, this kissing cousin to Fargo, Cedar Rapids, and last…
Although Japanese animation virtuoso Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away) serves only on the periphery as co-writer and production supervisor, his soulfulness…
The gorgeously scruffy Juliette (director/ co-writer Valérie Donzelli) and Roméo (co-writer Jérémie Elkaïm)—yes, the improbability is noted—move from dive- bar…
“You just have to get crazier” are words of advice mighty choreographer Pina Bausch once gave one of her dancers,…
The man in the title is British-American multimillionaire Richard Garriott, who made his pile designing PC “virtual world” role-playing games,…
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