If The King’s Speech was a comfy middlebrow choice for Best Picture of 2010, how much more depressing was the…
Chen Zhen, a Chinese film folk hero whose vocation is bucking off the yoke of Japanese imperialism, has a legendary…
“Yes, I think we all used her,” Eve Arnold once said of Marilyn Monroe. “I think as a photographer, one…
As agreeable as it is insidious, Morgan Spurlock’s latest exposé of corporate control via immersive humiliation is his best, most…
Sam (Michael Angarano), a young kids’-book author, suckers his neglected childhood best friend, Marshall (Reece Thompson), into driving them out…
No passion for fashion is required to enjoy this absorbing portrait of legendary New York Times “On the Street” photographer…
Anthropomorphizing its animal stars to a borderline-dubious degree, Disneynature’s nonfiction African Cats situates itself in Kenya’s river-divided Masai Mara National…
Made for a song with a non-pro cast and DV camera gear out of his backpack, Tariq Tapa’s debut feature…
“The circus is tough and beautiful,” says a talking head in Aaron Schock’s documentary on the small, struggling, family-owned Circo…
Updated for a skeptical age, this new World War II movie comes impeccably groomed in period-attentive tans and grays; is…
Someone’s been watching too many Miranda July movies. Made in Portland by Matt McCormick, this slow-moving tale of tangentially related…
In 1952, Manoel de Oliveira sketched a fable of impossible longing that became, finally, The Strange Case of Angelica. Though…
The opening title card of François Ozon’s 1977-set Potiche seems to take design inspiration from the exploitation films of that…
When a local crime boss (Kevin Bacon) lures away his wife (Liv Tyler), lifelong pushover Frank (Rainn Wilson; see interview)—under…
Set in the months after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, Robert Redford’s dull history lesson follows the consequences of the fatal…
It’s probably inevitable that a biopic will be made about the late comic Bill Hicks (1961–1994), who achieved his greatest…
With post-Goodfellas crime-movie tropes dyed for St. Patrick’s Day, this Ballad of Danny Greene attempts to enshrine the Irish-American strongman,…
Empty is right, and that’s not a put-down. This sparse black-and-white documentary by Alain LeTourneau and Pam Minty places a…
A U.N. premiere! A Vanessa Redgrave cameo! Zionist hoodlums! While Jewish advocacy groups swarm to director Julian Schnabel’s bait, it…
Joe Wright’s Hanna is a tech-savvy fairy tale, replete with a wicked witch, uncertain parentage, and chop-socky mixed martial arts….
