Mother, Bong Joon-ho’s follow-up to his killer killer-tadpole allegory The Host, is a subtler yet no less visceral horror-comedy. Opening…
The only Third Reich filmmaker to be tried for crimes against humanity (he was acquitted, twice), the notorious Veit Harlan’s…
Atom Egoyan’s Chloe is posh, cool, and never less than obvious. Work for hire, the movie was adapted by Erin…
A fundamentally lazy comedy that will probably make you laugh like an idiot, HTTM was ostensibly directed by Steve Pink….
There’s a stunt element to the casting of The Runaways: a punked-up, barely-legal Kristen Stewart and a still-underage, barely-dressed Dakota…
In contrast to 2006’s amber-lit, prayerful Neil Young: Heart of Gold, a stately acoustic set at Nashville’s tradition-rich Ryman Auditorium,…
Better late than never—a bang-bang pulse-pounder predicated on the Bush administration’s deliberate fabrication of WMDs in Iraq. Paul Greengrass’ expertly…
Taking its name from the hometown zip code of directors Bill and Turner Ross, this documentary portrait of Sydney, Ohio,…
Daniel Ellsberg was an ex-Marine, trusted analyst, and Cold Warrior under Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, who, “from the…
From A Self-Made Hero to Read My Lips, Jacques Audiard has studied the intricacies of illicit behavior. Criminal process is…
Putatively a new romance starring Robert Pattinson, Remember Me begins like a vigilante movie: A Brooklyn subway platform, 1991; a…
This isn’t entirely without its selling points, chief among them T.J. Miller, who’s a cross between Seth Rogen and Jason…
Noam Chomsky reveres him. Leon Wieseltier hates him. Alan Dershowitz called him an anti-Semite and applied successful pressure to deny…
In the late ’60s, the McKerrow family of Helena, Montana, had three sons: one adopted, two biological. Today it has…
For better or worse, there isn’t a human experience that French director André Téchiné can resist lathering into a tone…
A multiplex three-pack filled with every cop-movie convention since the invention of gunpowder and curse words, Brooklyn’s Finest is three…
This crime triptych originated in four novels by David Peace, who looked back without nostalgia to the Yorkshire of his…
Jimmy (Bruce Willis), a swinging-dick career cop threatened by his ex-wife’s new husband (Jason Lee), tries to sell a treasured…
Katie Jarvis, who makes her acting debut as a rabid teenager in writer/director Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank, was discovered on…
The key image in Old Partner is that of farmer Choi Won-kyun, 79, slumped in his jerry-rigged cart, being pulled…
