Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre is something of a comeback for the Finnish filmmaker. His warmhearted comedy of underdog, working-class solidarity,…
Constance Marks’ documentary on Kevin Clash, the kind, gentle man who created the Muppet beloved by every single child in…
A butch Dorothy Parker with flashes of Wildean rhetorical flourish, Fran Lebowitz, the subject of this tonic portrait that first…
A revenge of the have-nots playing on the clear class stratification of the luxury high-rise, Tower Heist pits lobby against…
Based on the true story of the collusion between British and Australian governments to illegally ship tens of thousands of…
Tom Tykwer’s new romantic triangle is a comedy with a genetic premise. One of its Berlin trio is a scientist…
Michael Brandt’s post–Cold War spy film is grade-B hokum, but it’s not without its occasional generic thrills. Apparently more adept…
Puncture is proudly “Based on a True Story.” As is so often the case, this means an indifference to “true”…
The mad-scientist tale has remained more or less fixed since the beginning of sound cinema: From Dr. Frankenstein’s claim to…
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, is the close-second candidate for authorship of the 37 plays of William Shakespeare—who,…
Ethan Brand (Alessandro Nivola), front man for a small-venue alt-rock band about to splinter thanks to his drunken tantrums, is…
Pedro Costa, legendary for his intimate, epic, underlit, and often inaudible portraits of Lisbon slum dwellers, here ponders the mystery…
Written and directed by Bruce Robinson, The Rum Diary adapts a novel Hunter S. Thompson began in the early ’60s…
There’s much to savor in director Patrick Takaya Solomon’s documentary about the life—but mainly the work—of the late Joseph Campbell,…
Naturalistic without being ineloquent, heartfelt yet unsentimental, Weekend is the rarest of birds: a movie romance that rings true. After…
As taut and economical as its title is unwieldy, Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene is a deft, old-school psychological…
Sure to be drowned out by the drum circles at Occupy Wall Street, writer/director J.C. Chandor’s lifeless Margin Call depicts…
A feeble teenage-outcast movie set in 1987, Dirty Girl exists primarily as a vehicle for first-time writer/director Abe Sylvia’s favorite…
Standing outside his small-town Ohio home, Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) looks up at the ominous, slate-gray sky. The clouds open,…
Premiered as a BBC1 telefilm, now flaunting its wasteful widescreen in theaters, Toast adapts the autobiography of Nigel Slater, a…
