Because it’s a total star turn for George Clooney, and because it’s been seven years since director Alexander Payne’s Sideways,…
Desperately trying to appeal to not just the Gen-Xers who grew up with Kermit but also the tykes who’ve never…
In his first feature, writer/director Sam Levinson (son of Barry) turns to screeching family dysfunction for inspiration; the end result…
In the TV-movie-quality impersonation that is Simon Curtis’ My Week With Marilyn, Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams) has arrived in 1956…
Packing an entire season’s worth of The Wire‘s dirty cops, self-serving politicians, serpentine plotting, and gruesome, wasteful collateral damage into…
In 1982, documentary filmmaker Pamela Yates traveled to Guatemala to capture both sides of the then-raging civil war, in which…
The pleasing sounds of Carmen Maura’s whispery Castilian lisp open this 1962-set film about the friendship between a Parisian captain…
Now this is a resume: dapper king of Miami soul, groove-master songwriter for the likes of Sam & Dave, rap…
“The best for the most for the least” was the utopian business credo of Charles Eames, who with his wife,…
Early in You All Are Captains, director Oliver Laxe—playing a version of “himself,” a Spaniard teaching a filmmaking workshop to…
Flea almost cries. Twice. There’s your four-word summation of The Other F Word, a half-poignant, half-absurd documentary on punk-rocker dads…
An egalitarian study of crime and punishment in a small Texas town, Into the Abyss is also an unmistakably Herzogian…
The first thing you see in Lars von Trier’s Melancholia is a close-up of Kirsten Dunst’s face. Behind her, slow…
“They should have been the band that went way beyond any of us who were influenced by them,” says Primus’…
Danfung Dennis’ documentary seeks to chronicle the personal experience of war with extreme and sustained intimacy. The nightmare-vivid combat footage…
This tour doc—shot in moody, close-up-heavy black-and-white—traces a few years on the road with Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, real-life…
During the early ’80s, the Bay Area was initially slow to recognize the “gay cancer” that, one subject recalls in…
Anna (Felicity Jones) is an aspiring journalist, a wee wisp of a girl come from Britain to study in Los…
Clint Eastwood goes deep into Oliver Stone territory and emerges victorious with J. Edgar. Although hardly flawless, Eastwood’s biopic is…
I couldn’t get my parents to watch Who Killed the Electric Car?, Chris Paine’s indictment of the forces that brought…
