When we first see bi computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) in the final adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy,…
As suggested by its title, Allen Ginsberg’s game-changing poem Howl is essentially performative—and so is Howl, the Sundance-opening quasi-biographical movie…
Sam Nussbaum (Andrew Dickler), his Taliban-length beard an extension of his mullah-like self-righteousness about organic produce and bicycling, is about…
Charles Ferguson’s follow-up to his Iraq War gut-twister No End in Sight is a documentary that inspires sickening ire—20 minutes…
After Fox Searchlight’s Amelia spectacularly flamed out last October, the studio’s trying again to grab awards-season honors with another biopic…
Documenting the world’s most massive commute.
You worry about a guy who worshipped William S. Burroughs, and Steven Jesse Bernstein clearly made his friends worry long…
Is America’s last cowboy icon prospecting for more Oscar gold? Taking for his map an original screenplay by British docu-dramatist…
C.W. Winter and Anders Edström’s The Anchorage uses a narrative structure introduced to more powerful effect 35 years ago in…
Glenn Gould got the medium wrong, but eventually got the message right. The ground bass running throughout the career of…
John Lennon’s teen years are the focus of this very clumsy melodrama by Sam Taylor-Wood. Its few virtues—Liverpool period detail,…
Classiest. Comic. Book. Movie. Ever. Not the best. Not the worst. Just the classiest—Helen Mirren (and Morgan Freeman and John…
Does it matter that a young Israeli filmmaker’s imaginative reconstruction of an abandoned Nazi propaganda film about the Warsaw Ghetto…
Robert De Niro’s alarm must have finally gone off—in Stone, the actor seems more awake than he has been in…
It’s been argued, persuasively, that the era of the drag queen is over. After Sex and the City, what’s the…
Published five years ago, Kazuo Ishiguro’s massively praised Never Let Me Go is set in an alternate universe where life…
A very, very loose and highly symbolic adaptation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void…
Seemingly designed to get every New York City honors student face-punched at college, this film chronicles a privileged Brooklyn high-schooler’s…
This likable little indie shares what might be called the Humpday paradox, minus the gay thing. In the new cinema…
A loving portrait of place, Gideon Koppel’s tribute to a very small town in Wales isn’t the kind of documentary…
