A local venue guide.
W.E. is the second feature film credited to former MTV queen Madonna, and the second in about a year—after The…
Aging punks were the recent subject of The Other F-Word (i.e. fatherhood), and aging punks are again the subject of…
Recording the anthem “Les Filles du Crazy,” half a dozen women—performers at the Crazy Horse, Paris’ classy nudie cabaret—sing of…
This year’s shorts offer a little something for every viewing temperament, though some categories require sitting through a lot of…
Horror movies are lately given to gluttonous effects, but director Ti West (The House of the Devil) is a rare…
More delightful than Procatinator and a greater tribute to the power of print journalism than Page One: Inside the New…
Iranian writer/director Asghar Farhadi’s fifth feature is an urgently shot courtroom drama designed to put you in the jury box….
Updating Shakespeare seems doubly condescending, the implication being that we need help to relate to the text, and that the…
Richard Burton lives! An arthouse mashup of The Odyssey and England’s colonial immigration wave following World War II, The Nine…
With a name that not even the PR team at Smokefree America could dream up, Victor DeNoble emerges as the…
A brisk, fascinating chronicle of a pre–Carla Bruni Nicolas Sarkozy that time-shifts from May 6, 2007—the day he was both…
Fulfilling a mission that has consumed her for almost two decades, Glenn Close—as producer, co-writer, and lead—brings to the screen…
The hero of this red-herring heist flick draws two reactions from the throng beneath his 21st-floor perch on a Manhattan…
Director/screenwriter Tran Anh Hung crams Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood into two and a half hours that offer barely a hint…
Shot in 2005—lead actress Anna Paquin, now 29, credibly plays a 17-year-old—Margaret was delayed first by the editing-room angst of…
“Inspired by true events” in the early 1900s, as this somber Portland indie declares, How the Fire Fell begins with…
I was told there would be more wolf-punching. If you crash Liam Neeson and six disposable buddies in the frozen…
Imagine the early, hellaciously bleak work of Cormac McCarthy transposed to the corrupt outlands of modern Russia and/or Ukraine and…
Haywire‘s plot is boilerplate triple-cross, cloak-and-dagger stuff—but the action choreography by director Steven Soderbergh and MMA fighter Gina Carano puts…
