At his peak (Two-Lane Blacktop, Cockfighter), Monte Hellman superbly combined an absurdist worldview and snapshot-authentic Middle America. But rather than…
Blank City is a self-defeating, user-friendly primer on a group of films whose aura was enhanced by the fact that…
Nothing screams “French crossover comedy” like jokes about Auschwitz and childhood sexual abuse, the main rib-ticklers of Michel Leclerc’s blood-clot-inducing…
A uniquely Freudian entry in the body-switching-comedy canon, The Change-Up stars Jason Bateman as anal-retentive lawyer/family man Dave and Ryan…
The embellishment of a memoir by Latif Yahia, once forcibly employed as a public stand-in for Saddam Hussein’s psychopathic son,…
Brit Marling, the lithe, stunning co-writer and star of Mike Cahill’s Another Earth, plays Rhoda, a 17-year-old who is celebrating…
So much petty drama has clouded the release of Michael Rapaport’s A Tribe Called Quest documentary. One version of the…
Exposing a little-known piece of Holocaust history—the Vel’ d’Hiv roundup, in which French police arrested thousands of Jews in Paris…
After Emily (Julianne Moore) tells Cal (Steve Carell), her husband of 20-plus years, that she wants a divorce, she confesses…
The smartest, funniest cheap monster-movie import this side of June’s Trollhunter, Attack the Block is a near-perfectly balanced seasonal trifle:…
Back in 2001, George Ratliff made a fine documentary called Hell House, about a Texas evangelical church’s elaborate haunted house,…
Between 2007 and 2010, Nicolás Pereda wrote and directed four features (all being screened this week, with the director in…
The story of Ginny Ruffner’s cruelly interrupted career—by a brain- and body- damaging 1991 car crash—is well known in the…
Danish artist Michael Madsen’s Into Eternity documents an anti-monument to negativity. Admirably forward-thinking, if undeniably quixotic, Finland’s government has undertaken…
After veering into politics for his previous couple of documentaries (Standard Operating Procedure, The Fog of War), Errol Morris steers…
This dark, hallucinatory fable begins and climaxes with two of the most audacious sex-meets-death set-pieces in recent indie-movie memory. What’s…
Nina (Li Bingbing) is a Shanghai career girl who drops plans to move to New York when she learns her…
Created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for Marvel Comics in 1941, Captain America was among the first American comic…
“Suburban malaise,” they call it, and it’s the reason why Long Island dental hygienist Laura (Jenna Fischer) self-soothes with afternoon…
Nicolás Goldbart’s Argentine thriller begins on an innocuous note: a young married couple, as if stepped from an IKEA catalog,…
