A courtier, errand boy, master sound technician, and Steinway rep all rolled into one, Stefan Knüpfer has the unenviable task…
Directed by Azazel Jacobs, Terri concerns an obese 15-year-old, a de facto orphan, living in a ramshackle home with a…
Sharing the narrative opacity and marginal milieu of its 2006 predecessor Hamilton, this assured feature-length follow-up from Matt Porterfield surveys…
Pitched to tug at even Arizona governor Jan Brewer’s heartstrings, A Better Life takes on the combustible topic of illegal…
In his fourth film as director (and his first documentary, billed as a “musical adventure”), John Turturro plays an amateur…
Bespectacled Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) squares off against amphibian-faced Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) in this magnificent finale of the beloved…
A grueling barrage of geologic plunder, union-busting, sociopathic official indifference (hey, why not put a toxic-sludge lake next to an…
Lu Chuan’s City of Life and Death has the title and the feel of a monument. This wide-screen, austerely monochromatic,…
Written and directed by New Orleans resident Harry Shearer, The Big Uneasy illustrates in detail what many folks intuited or…
Alleged to be compiled from found college-project footage from a group of missing students, Trollhunter begins as an investigative report…
Director Seth Gordon’s ensemble comedy is about how our tough economic times have destroyed white-collar, white-male masculinity. Three high-school friends—weakling…
A famous French actress (Catherine Deneuve) visiting Beirut takes a trip to south Lebanon to see the damage from the…
Here’s one solution to the high cost of mental-health care: Let the patients steal their shrink’s car and go on…
For a movie called Larry Crowne, it sure is tough to get a solid read on the character of Larry…
From the Columbia City Cinema to the Uptown, smaller cinemas have been closing all around Seattle. And though this Uruguayan…
When was the last time, in a non-sexual context, that you saw a friend naked? Showering together after high-school sports…
As boarding-school bodice-rippers go, this assured debut by British director and girls’-school alumna Jordan Scott fairly bursts with pent-up carnality…
Bad Teacher focuses on a school year in the life of Elizabeth (Cameron Diaz), an aging party girl, once destined…
“I am angry,” Conan O’Brien admits in Rodman Flender’s tour doc. “I’m trying not to be . . . but sometimes I’m so mad…
One of two current films dealing with the familial fallout of a teenager’s school shooting spree (Lynne Ramsay’s similarly themed…
