Just because you’re a hit on YouTube doesn’t mean you should be making movies. Case in point: the three likeable…
A whirling dervish of rafter-swinging rebellion, gypsy-punk rockers Gogol Bordello (led by handlebar-mustached beanpole Eugene Hütz—beloved New York DJ, accidental…
Like director Brian Levant’s past two outings—2002’s Snow Dogs and 2005’s Are We There Yet?— Spy is immediately forgettable family…
Ah, the Matthew Broderick stoner movie. Ferris Bueller all grown up: divorced, disappointed, a weekend father, looking chubby and unshaven,…
Cults collide as Peter Jackson tackles Alice Sebold’s bestselling New Age gothic, the story of a rape-murder-dismemberment and its aftermath,…
Directors Allen and Albert Hughes were raised by an Armenian mother and an African American father. With such a background,…
According to supposed Irish custom, women may propose to their reluctant fiancés on February 29. The woman here is Anna…
It’s a good thing that New York director Zachary Levy will attend screenings of his documentary, since he has two…
Consider: If Tennessee Williams’ script for Joseph Losey’s 1968 turkey Boom! (an adaptation of his play The Milk Train Doesn’t…
Reunited with Charles McKeown, his co-writer on Brazil and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Terry Gilliam has created another Ultimate…
The most perverse installment in Aleksandr Sokurov’s dictator cycle, The Sun (2005) follows his meditations on Hitler (Moloch, 1999) and…
Winded and weary from its long journey to a bigger screen, C.D. Payne’s 500-page 1993 novel has been squeezed into…
Several local artists are featured in Eileen Yaghoobian’s fan-ish documentary about rock-poster designers. Opening night, she’ll join Jeff Kleinsmith, Jesse…
No fashion-conscious multiplex movie should face opening day without some grave issue of our day propped in its buttonhole. Last…
Our critics picks, from grumpy widowers to an angry God.
Tom Ford applies too much polish to a Christopher Isherwood novel.
Man, British heritage cinema can be dull and boring when assembly-lined for the export market. Laboring under lampshade millinery, hair…
As overemphatic as one might expect from the ham-fisted Guy Ritchie, this resurrection of the world’s most famous detective is…
Pedro Almodóvars latest comedy delves ever deeper into movies.
The director of Chicago goes to war against himself.
