Cheerful in outline and yet prone to maudlin bulges in its middle, Today’s Special stars Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi…
“What if we choose to exist solely in a reality of our own making?” asks Pittsburgh community-college lit professor John…
The documentary crowd is catching up to colony collapse disorder, which some estimate has wiped out one-third of the American…
After earning an Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire, director Danny Boyle was well aware that the true story of Aron Ralston…
The fifth collaboration of director Margarethe von Trotta and actress Barbara Sukowa, Vision continues the proto-feminist canonization of Blessed Hildegard…
Watch what James Franco—actor/sleepy grad student/tepid writer/viral-video comedian/ conceptual artist/aficionado of gender-fuckery—can accomplish when he actually focuses for a couple…
The usually silver-tongued Eliot Spitzer, political hero of the recent Inside Job and now ubiquitous media personality, stammers and hesitates…
Boxing Gym is 80-year-old documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s 38th feature. Despite, or perhaps because of, its relatively modest length and ordinary…
Warning lights should flash anytime an artist ventures among the Third World’s poor and dispossessed. Pose a peasant in front…
The science of global warming is tough enough to evaluate without the sort of hard-sell Ondi Timoner pushes on behalf…
In the climax of Morning Glory, Rachel McAdams is dressed in the kind of cocktail dress a screen heroine wears…
Justly feted at Cannes, named for the globetrotting Venezuelan “revolutionary”-turned-killer capitalist also known as “the Jackal,” Carlos is French auteur…
A skinny, scowly, and dryly self-referential Robert Downey Jr. meets a chubby, beardy, quasi-autistic Zach Galifianakis boarding a flight. Downey…
A road-trip romance thick with sci-fi circumstance, Monsters imagines a bizarro-world present in which a NASA probe has crashed, leaving…
It would be unwise to consider Four Lions a movie that has much to say about radical Islam or the…
The antithesis of both Marley & Me cuddliness and Cesar Millan militance, J.R. Ackerley’s 1956 memoir about his recalcitrant German…
Comely, independent, willful young lass returns to collect family inheritance in rural England, drives the local men wild, and inadvertently…
It’s a long, long way from the women’s bar outside Berkeley, Calif., where Ntozake Shange first presented her combustible choreopoem…
Just because you co-founded SIFF doesn’t mean you should be directing movies. Back in ’96, Dan Ireland had a small…
Adapted from Valerie Plame and Joseph C. Wilson’s memoirs, the unsurprisingly validating Fair Game begins as a timeline-hopping international thriller…
