Starring dancer Kenny Wormald and directed by Craig Brewer, Footloose is an extraordinarily faithful remake, recycling four songs from Herbert…
Riffing on how outlaw Butch Cassidy’s life might have gone had he survived in South America, this modest oater should…
“The revolution will not be televised.” So Gil Scott-Heron asserted in 1970, and so it was not—at least not on…
Two history lessons at this year’s festival.
Pretentious muddle trumps splattery satire in this high-minded indie button-pusher, which is only fleetingly as transgressive as its infamous Sundance-screening…
A home-invasion movie as instantly forgettable as its title, Trespass is not without disturbing images: namely, Nicolas Cage and Nicole…
Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley’s documentary recounts the tireless anti–Atlantic Yards efforts of Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn co-founder Daniel Goldstein….
Spectacularly photographed and journalistically lame, Jane’s Journey blows a 107-minute kiss to Dr. Jane Goodall, the 70-something primatologist-turned-conservationist. Traveling 300-odd…
George Clooney’s fourth directorial effort is a loose adaptation of Farragut North, a 2008 behind-the-political-campaign play by Beau Willimon, who…
Connected opens with director Tiffany Shlain confessing to cell-phone addiction, a focus on herself that’s indicative of this documentary, which…
French cartoonist Joann Sfar’s first feature is an ambitious attempt to cage the career of legendary French singer/songwriter/scamp Serge Gainsbourg…
This documentary represents Nick Broomfield’s attempt to, as he puts it, “find out about the real Sarah from the people…
Romanian director Cristi Puiu’s Aurora is a continuous search for meaning—a murder mystery, shot vérité-style, in which, for most of…
Too morbid to be a crowd-pleaser a la Good Will Hunting but nowhere near as confrontationally inscrutable as Gerry, Gus…
“Convoluted” does not begin to describe this four-hour-plus movie, based on a sprawling three-volume novel by prolific 19th-century Portuguese novelist…
One scene captures the tricky tonal balance of cancer comedy 50/50. Adam, the straight-edge radio producer played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt,…
Based on the true story of Sam Childers—ex-con, druggie, gun nut, and self-described “hillbilly from Pennsylvania” who got right with…
Joseph Dorman’s film essay–cum–biodoc concerns author Solomon Rabinovich (1859–1916) who, taking as his pen name the Yiddish greeting Sholem Aleichem…
I believe it was Chekhov who said that if you drive a wood chipper into the forest where dumb co-eds…
Notable nonfiction includes true crime and mobile gardens.
