The de facto highlight of the horrific [REC] 2—the 28-minutes-later sequel to the Spanish zombie flick Americanized as Quarantine—comes when…
The premise of Michael Winterbottom’s adaptation of Jim Thompson’s 1952 crime novel could be summed up in a classified ad:…
Purely for the reliable pleasure of Michael Caine’s company, I came ready to praise what threatened to be another miserabilist…
This sequel to the delightful French 2006 retro romp OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies now revives a different spy…
In this freakishly engrossing black comedy about excessively mothered men and the women who enable them, the excellent John C….
Like a Sundance film from the early ’80s (before the festival was so named), this Sundance prizewinner starts grim and…
Suppose what we call “parenting” is just a situation in which overgrown kids take care of smaller ones? That’s the…
It’s hard to determine which group Holy Rollers considers to be more villainous: Hasidic Jews, or former Hasidic Jews who…
This extravagant melodrama starring Tilda Swinton is both ridiculous and sublime. As the Russian-born trophy wife of a rich industrialist…
Nicole Holofcener’s fourth feature is, for the most part, witty and engrossing. Kate (Catherine Keener) and Alex (Oliver Platt) are…
Fifteen years after ushering in a new era of CGI animation, and 11 years after a colossally successful pre-millennial sequel,…
Opening with a close-up of the crow’s feet around its subject’s eyes and expanding to reveal her Botox-frozen upper lip,…
Harmony Korine, aging enfant terrible and self-proclaimed “most American” of American indies, finds his level and brings it home to…
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9 7 p.m., SIFF Cinema Monogamy As his feature debut, writer/director Dana Adam Shapiro, whose 2005 Murderball received…
Like the 1984 original, this new Kid begins with an uprooting. Young Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) and his mother are…
To an extent, Linas Phillips has already made this movie as the 2006 documentary Walking to Werner. Now, instead of…
Not interested in heroicizing the four Western doctors it follows through their missions in the Congo and Liberia, or even…
Wednesday, June 2 7 p.m., Neptune American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi Back when Will Ferrell did his live HBO-on-Broadway…
Though Sundance-screened and sporting an upscale cast, Vincenzo Natali’s Splice has a mad-science quality. Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley are…
Fatally eccentric, Sol Tryon’s The Living Wake recounts the odyssey of outlandish weirdo K. Roth Binew (Mike O’Connell) as he…
