In Steve Carell’s first few episodes of The Office, the series hewed closely to Ricky Gervais’ BBC template. But here,…
The title of Lucy Walker’s pro-nuclear-disarmament tract has two meanings: a paranoiac’s ticking down the last moments until the bomb…
In the early-morning hours of Saturday, June 28, 1969, at a dive at 53 Christopher Street in New York City,…
In a go-nowhere Pacific Northwest town, dreamy high-school sailor Charlie (played mostly by Zac Efron’s abs and piercing gaze) puts…
Salt, famously the Spy Flick Rewritten for Angelina Jolie After Tom Cruise Dropped Out, has been publicized as the cinematic…
Portuguese master Manoel de Oliveira, cinema’s only centenarian and an indefatigable bard of subtle, insidiously devastating irony, approaches Eccentricities at…
Not lacking for conviction or cojones, Alejandro Amenábar’s Agora is a big, broad, stridently atheistic sword-and-sandal entertainment that recounts a…
Alain Resnais’ Wild Grass has plenty of fans—it copped an award at Cannes in 2009—but I don’t see what they…
Inception is a chilling trip into the psyche…of writer/director Christopher Nolan, an Anglo-American action director who shattered the Tomatometer of…
Watered-down Jungian analysis meets a GLAAD-approved weepie in Peter Bratt’s second feature, starring brother Benjamin (who also produces) as a…
For the dwindling number of Holocaust survivors who still remember him, and the thousands of young Jews and Israelis who…
While Hollywood has belatedly cooled on snarky, loud-quiet-loud proto-Tarantino gangster comedies, our English-speaking brethren across the Atlantic remain steadfast, pumping…
Serious comedy, powered by an enthusiastic cast and full of good-natured innuendo, Lisa Cholodenko’s Kids gives adolescent coming-of-age and the…
The worst violence Sebastian Junger reports in his new book War, based on his Vanity Fair dispatches from Afghanistan, can’t…
A prizewinning documentary at Sundance, Restrepo reached SIFF at the same time as co-director Sebastian Junger’s companion book, War. He…
Coco Chanel. Igor Stravinsky. Two iconoclasts whose contributions to their respective artistic fields left an indelible mark on the 20th…
More of an opera than a movie, this rather strange and daring Hungarian musical follows a street junkie into a…
As the lights were dimming before a preview screening of Despicable Me, the 6-year-old who lives in my house leaned…
Adapted from Shahrnoush Parsipour’s novel of the same name, Women Without Men opens with an act of suicide and the…
This grim and bloody adaptation of the second volume of the late Stieg Larsson’s bestselling Millennium trilogy—featuring journalist Mikael Blomkvist…
