One miserable couple collides with another in this Norwegian cringe comedy. Kaja (Agnes Kittelsen), a chipper teacher of German and…
On the cuss-filled tapes that made them unwitting (and unknowing) celebrities, San Francisco roommates Raymond and Peter provided the bleakest…
Michael Lewis’s book Moneyball was published in 2003, in the immediate wake of The Season That Shook Baseball. The story…
Tsui Hark’s visually sumptuous Detective Dee is a strong comeback for the veteran Hong Kong wuxia-maker. Magnificent and cheesy, the…
Wholly unrelated to the 1975 Sam Peckinpah film of the same name, Killer Elite is distinguished by one no-mercy, eye-gouging,…
José (Fernando Luján) has been divorced from Nora for 20 years. They were married at least as long. Now he…
Road movies don’t get any purer than this visual reverie— Bressonian in its austerity and transcendence, only with truck-stop hookers….
Brimming over with outrage not so much at the eponymous Ponzi schemer as at the government body that failed to…
In heavily outlining the tragedies and injustices that befell the musically gifted older sister of Wolfgang “Amadeus,” writer/director René Féret…
What I don’t know: why these movies keep getting made. Based on Allison Pearson’s 2002 comic bestseller, directed by Douglas…
Set in Tehran but filmed mainly in Beirut, Maryam Keshavarz’s earnest, well- intentioned first feature on women’s oppression in Iran…
As stripped-down and propulsive as its robotic title, Drive is the most “American” movie yet by Danish genre director Nicolas…
So soon after the 3-D gore of Shark Night, we get this gentle, Bambi-level-sad documentary about an orphaned killer whale…
Contagion opens on day two of a global viral epidemic. Gwyneth Paltrow plays Beth, an American employee for a multinational…
Inspired by a 2008 New York Times Magazine article by Alex Kotlowitz, Steve James’ commanding documentary about “violence interrupters” in…
Adapted from Muriel Barbery’s international best seller The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Mona Achache’s first film follows two parallel story…
You know those Affliction shirts, covered in skulls, gothic lettering, and tribal patterns, all cacophonous symbols of badass machismo? That’s…
Vera Farmiga’s directorial debut, in which the actress plays Corinne, a woman who chafes against the restrictions of her evangelical…
A group of 30-somethings trapped in the amber of their high-school years attempt to bone their way into adulthood in…
Much as aspiring fiction writers should be prevented from reading Raymond Carver, young filmmakers should be strongly cautioned against putting…
