Most sequels are born of good box office rather than good ideas—if you build it and they come, you simply…
A Seattle filmmaker explores her heritage.
Since 1976, the Seattle International Film Festival has imposed its own particular burdens on the ambitious Seattle filmgoer. Having crept…
Resistance is futile. Don’t even try not falling for these adorable twin lesbian political-activist farmer/folksinger/comedians from New Zealand. “On paper,…
THURSDAY, MAY 19 The First Grader 7 p.m., McCaw Hall Based on the true story of an 84-year-old Kenyan who…
A local director’s study in grief.
Lord Naritsugu (Gorô Inagaki) is a royal terror, and the court fears Caligula-like horrors should he come into his royal…
Grave, beautiful, austerely comic, and casually metempsychotic, Michelangelo Frammartino’s Le Quattro Volte is one of the wiggiest nature documentaries—or almost-documentaries—ever…
Looking to documentaries to learn how to live could easily become a life-consuming occupation in itself. I’m waiting on the…
Built around the talents of co-writer/lead actress Kristen Wiig, Bridesmaids is the first female-fronted comedy produced by Hollywood kingpin Judd…
Spencer Susser’s initially rousing Hesher introduces an engimatic stranger into a fractured family with equivocally redemptive results. The titular tattooed…
Hoop Dreams meets American Idol. If you’re sick of poetry slams already, if you have no patience for tales of…
A very atypical zombie movie, the somberly effective Rammbock begins like a breakup drama and ends in a Mozart-Requiem swell…
Tenacious indie Kelly Reichardt has specialized in quirky, minimalist quasi–road movies in which loners come unmoored in some great American…
Based on a 2005 work of chick literature by Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed is a tale of love and betrayal…
After chambermaid Hélène (Sandrine Bonnaire) glimpses an American couple (Jennifer Beals and Dominic Gould) playing chess in the upscale Corsican…
What makes Johann run—and rob? Benjamin Heisenberg’s second feature is as taut, lean, and fleet as its title character, played…
One of the few justifiable recent excursions into 3-D, Werner Herzog’s new documentary charts a secret wonder of the world,…
Another twisted, obsessive love story from South Korea’s Kim Ki-duk, the 2007 Breath is a tale of two households riven…
A low-blood-sugar heist movie set in the tumbleweed thoroughfares of downtown Buffalo, Henry’s Crime has a little too much in…
