Dutifully hipster-hyped at Sundance and South by Southwest, writer/director/actor Evan Glodell’s testosterone-fueled, fever-dream indie impresses less for its screeching take…
A remake of the far more brisk 2007 Israeli film with a bullpen of aging stars, this rather old-fashioned espionage…
As might be expected of a globe-hopping, decades-spanning drug-smuggler biopic, Mr. Nice commences by trying to induce a contact high:…
A fantasy about a temperamental, wand-wielding young man named Luke and the aphorism-uttering master who leads him to enlightenment, Seven…
John Sayles’ Amigo aspires more to educate than entertain, but it’s no less engrossing for that. Torn from the pages…
The subject of Magic Trip is the LSD- powered, cross-country road movie orchestrated by novelist Ken Kesey in the summer…
Die-hard horror fans (including this one) generally spend their adult lives hoping to re-experience the fear and awe they derived…
If there’s a more complicated place than Italy to be a beautiful woman, the filmmaking world has yet to identify…
On its face, the title is misleading. Crime After Crime sounds like a repeat-offender case study, but instead concerns the…
An Australian misfits-in-love story manufactured from whole quirk, Griff the Invisible is more mannerism than movie. Griff (True Blood‘s Ryan…
“AIDS” isn’t uttered until well past the halfway mark of Oliver Schmitz’s problematic South Africa–set tale about the fear, gossip,…
A Spanish Blair Witch DIY-er with a nutsy, preemptive title, this trifle scoots and skitters along guilelessly, as if the…
In Canadian director Larysa Kondracki’s The Whistleblower, shot in Romania, British babe Rachel Weisz plays a poor Nebraska cop who…
An award winner at Rotterdam way back in 2005, Mercedes Álvarez’s The Sky Turns, a film that aims to both…
Emma (Anne Hathaway) is a too-serious would-be writer in coke-bottle glasses and combat boots. She’s nursing a crush on Dexter…
Danny McBride and Nick Swardson play Dwayne and Travis, a duo of going-nowhere types who, on the advice of a…
This shaggy-man character study follows a 50-something policeman in western Ireland, Sergeant Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson). No by-the-book cop, Boyle…
A fast-talking, eye-rolling snarler, Emma Stone wears a truly terrible perm to play the allegedly dowdy Skeeter, a recent college…
Not every member of Homo sapiens who sees Project Nim will be moved to pledge membership in PETA. Still, this…
No one grieves onscreen quite like Charlotte Gainsbourg, here playing Dawn, made a widow within the first 10 minutes of…
