Following his Beijing Olympics opening-ceremony mega-production, Zhang Yimou remakes the Coen brothers’ Blood Simple by dressing it in flamboyant silk…
“Oklahoma—they call it the ‘Sooner State,’” narrates Danny Glover, playing a fisherman/Magical Negro, at the beginning of the latest project…
Written and directed by Samuel Maoz, Lebanon is not just the year’s most impressive first feature but also the strongest…
Directed by Casey Affleck, I’m Still Here purports to document Joaquin Phoenix’s high-profile “retirement” from acting, his alleged attempt to…
Sometimes you feel bad for movie marketers, tasked with connecting any given film to an audience as large as possible….
An atheist who, before deploying to Afghanistan, told his wife he didn’t want a military or religious funeral service if…
If you genetically spliced a tennis ball, a gerbil, and an onion, a bouncing, squealing, pursed-lip Oni warrior might result….
Sure to become a sacred text to surf-movie enthusiasts, but surprisingly watchable even for those who think “goofy-footing” is a…
After last week’s Part One of the crime saga of Jacques Mesrine, Killer Instinct, Part Two dives into the ’70s…
“What really matters is what you like, not what you are like,” says John Cusack in High Fidelity, a very…
Unabashedly a women’s picture, and one that dares address the romantic longings of a woman north of 40 (Patricia Clarkson),…
French gangster/showman Jacques Mesrine’s jaw-dropping record of flamboyant crimes and repeat prison breaks would seem to guarantee an exciting portrait…
Around a Small Mountain travels with an itinerant one-ring circus of proud artisans, performing to shrinking rural crowds. “We’re the…
What might strike American viewers as the most quizzical thing about Looking for Eric, Ken Loach’s humble ode to soccer…
Happily sampling nasty beats and riffs from the Scorsese catalog, this new Aussie crime saga begins with a hushed but…
Trapped behind enemy lines in Scotland circa 117 A.D. and besieged by the savage Picts, a dwindling handful of Roman…
With a small, well-chosen cast, a sly script, and slippery, ambivalent characters, The Last Exorcism gives a welcome twist to…
Midway through this teen comedy–cum–wish fulfillment fantasy, the movie’s hero, Kevin Carson, goes on a spending spree. The holder of…
An anniversary present for the French New Wave, this doc gives the gift of received wisdom as it recounts the…
Good films about ballet can be numbered on one hand. And about Chinese dissidents? I’ve still got fingers enough to…
