Line up this terrific documentary about end-times evangelical Christians against Bill Maher’s sneering Religulous, and you’ll see an excellent argument…
“When I lived in Las Vegas, I had plenty of luck. The trouble is, most of it was bad.” So…
The opening scenes of Home—a nighttime game of street hockey, a bathing session that turns into a five-way splash fight—establish…
Already a blogosphere punching bag for right-wing Christians, Creation—about Charles Darwin’s writing of On the Origin of Species—commits the sin…
Even From Paris With Love has its romantic side.
Opening with balalaikas, scurrying agrarians in collarless shirts, and helpful intertitles announcing that Tolstoy was “the most celebrated writer in…
A quintet of pathetic pals are sized up in this often sharp, nasty exposé of masculinity, written by Sexy Beast…
Garry Marshall’s embarrassingly star-studded, stiff rom-com is a kind of greatest-hits compilation, painted over with layers of gloss, as if…
Moving away from the “Sick and Twisted” compilations that built the Spike & Mike brand, this new collection of 19…
No, not the parkas. The fearsome north face of the Eiger became the object of National Socialist obsession during the…
Fresh from his painful buffoonery in The Spy Next Door, Jackie Chan tacks the opposite direction in this tough yet…
As personal assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to France, James Reese (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) longs for some more adventurous way…
Less a sequel than a remake of the exhilarating 2006 French action flick that introduced parkour to American audiences, D13:U…
“Did you shoot my daughtah?” is the question posed, in flat-voweled Bostonian, in the trailer for Edge. And Mel Gibson,…
From Portland, Katie Turinski’s insiderish, affectionate documentary follows a dozen guys who perform “shock drag” in the model of San…
Detective stories imply that mysteries can be solved, or at least rationally explained, and confirm a universe in which…
Prewar German youth prepare for war in Michael Hanekes masterpiece.
As home theaters get bigger, movie theaters have battled back with lounge chairs, food, and booze—all the comforts of home,…
Animals and people are all jumbled up in this hyperactive Belgian puppet animation—as in Panic‘s central ménage of Cowboy, Indian,…
To those who remember his appearances on David Letterman’s show in the ’80s, Brother Theodore was a German-accented, white-haired old…
