When I told someone the other day I was off to a screening of We Bought a Zoo, the response…
An undeniably charming homage to Hollywood in the late 1920s, The Artist will probably be the most successful silent movie…
John le Carré’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, the 1974 spy novel generally regarded as the writer’s finest, is predicated on…
Described as a “psychotic prom-queen bitch,” the antiheroine of Young Adult, directed by Jason Reitman from a Diablo Cody screenplay,…
Insincere and superficially nihilistic, Mark Pellington’s swaggering, midlife-crisis melodrama—about a soulless quartet of asshole college buds you’d never want to…
Alien to the street yet embedded within it, easy to read but impossible to decipher, the Toynbee Tiles are an…
The great success of Guy Ritchie’s 2009 Sherlock Holmes was to make Arthur Conan Doyle’s gimlet-eyed detective, first introduced to…
Takeshi Kitano’s latest finds the actor/director returning to the familiar terrain of the yakuza film after recent farces (Achilles and…
Steve McQueen’s first two films star Michael Fassbender, feature virtually interchangeable titles, and are nearly as grueling to watch as…
“A self-portrait through others,” as it’s subtitled, this conversational hall of mirrors never takes its microscope off the 65-year-old actress…
Tyrannosaur opens with a dog being kicked to death by its master, Joseph (Peter Mullan), a Leeds widower curdled by…
Frustratingly opaque, Julia Leigh’s debut feature opens with an unforgettable image: A young woman, earning some cash as a medical-research…
Molecular-gastronomy rock star Ferran Adrià’s Catalonian culinary paradise El Bulli is due to serve its last meal on July 31,…
With a chewy title to tip us off, director Carl Colby’s compelling and tricky portrait of his late pop streamlines…
As bluntly humanist and free-ranging as its subject, this brisk take on the life of poet, sociologist, educator, psychologist, and…
Tristan Patterson’s lyrical and formally audacious documentary follows Josh “Skreech” Sandoval, a 23-year-old wastoid pro skater with corporate sponsors, a…
One of the goals of writer/director Alrick Brown’s Kinyarwanda, set in the midst of the Rwandan genocide of 1994, is…
Communism collapsed in the Soviet Union because it couldn’t satisfy the people’s unquenchable need for chartreuse checked suits and electric-blue…
This year’s “sweeping” post-post-Fifth-Gen Chinese epic, Empire of Silver is filthy with luxuriant clichés, from sun-roasted Gobi landscapes to turn-of-the-century…
Martin Scorsese’s first foray into 3-D family filmmaking centers on its title character, played by Asa Butterfield, a just-prepubescent orphan…
