That this film was originally titled Goethe! should give you a sense of how much silly Sturm und Drang boosterism…
Winner of the award for Wordiest Title of the Month, this Japanese anime also features a very long and confusing…
Director Stephen Daldry has never met a Big Theme he didn’t like: After 2002’s The Hours, a lugubrious women’s-problem picture…
In this country, British modernist “starchitect” Norman Foster is perhaps best known for the Hearst headquarters in New York, with…
In Roman Polanski’s adaptation of Yasmina Reza’s hit play, posh pair Alan and Nancy (Christoph Waltz and Kate Winslet) come…
The subject of Gianfranco Rosi’s documentary portrait is a former resident of Ciudad Juárez, a Mexican city where, according to…
Two young Japanese tourists get stranded in a sunbaked hamlet far north of L.A. Their destination? Manzanar. So you know…
In the first scene of The Iron Lady, which re-teams director Phyllida Lloyd with her Mamma Mia! star Meryl Streep,…
The first 10 minutes of Dee Rees’ funny, moving, nuanced, and impeccably acted first feature, in which coming of age…
It’s 1992, and Ajla (Zana Marjanovic) and Danijel (Goran Kostic) are about to hook up in a Bosnian nightclub when…
A micro-to-macro expansion of, and logical conclusion to, Gary Hustwit’s elegantly compelling, design-in-the-everyday doc trilogy (which investigated the ubiquity of…
A sensitive portrait of childhood just before pubescence, Tomboy, the second film by writer/director Céline Sciamma, astutely explores the freedom…
Which are you more excited to see this Christmas weekend: the horse, the dragon, the zoo, or Snowy (Tintin’s faithful…
A Dangerous Method, the title of David Cronenberg’s viscerally cerebral new film, is something of an understatement. As cataclysmic as…
1. A Dangerous Method See review. 2. Melancholia On any other day, this might have ranked first. Directed by Lars…
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is hardly a personal project. Still, David Fincher’s sveltely malevolent remake of the 2009…
A doggedly overwrought production less felt than facile, Steven Spielberg’s War Horse is an essentially uninvolving prestige adaptation. It might…
For Seattle cinema lovers, 2011 was a good news/bad news year. For the bad, there was the May closure of…
Steven Spielberg’s motion-captured, 3-D The Adventures of Tintin rolls together plot elements from three comic-book adventures starring Belgian artist Hergé’s…
Too much time at my desk (and in museums and galleries), not enough time in screening rooms. The usual excuses,…
