Closing out a pretty great year for children’s movies—Up, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Coraline among them—Betty Thomas’ dutiful…
Catering to female filmgoers of a certain age, Nancy Meyers keeps
making the same movie over and over again.
Driving from New York to San Francisco, Robert Frank couldn’t have foreseen how his photo essay The Americans would define…
Of all European nations, Denmark enjoys the nearest thing to a heroic record of resisting its Nazi occupiers—which adds both…
Chris Smith’s one-man doc on veteran doomsayer Michael C. Ruppert holds less interest as another sky-is-falling dispatch than as the…
In the ongoing hand-wringing debates over classical music’s future in America, all the focus is on the classical-music business—stats about…
Rebecca Miller’s fourth feature may be the only film you’ll ever see with both Cornel West and Monica Bellucci in…
Some cities treat their pro sports teams like a close family member. In Seattle, we view them more like a…
Timothy Hutton is duct-taped to the potty, and Meg Ryan is just plain potty, in this posthumously produced Adrienne Shelly…
Orson Welles lives on not only in posthumously restored director’s cuts of his movies but as a character in other…
Veteran doc maker Robert Stone (Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst, Oswald’s Ghost) assembles nine talking, graying heads to reminisce…
Six decades after unleashing the persistent NAACP bugaboo Song of the South (1946), that peculiar cultural institution known as the…
A rosy tale of racial reconciliation neatly wrapped in a triumphalist sports movie (and blessedly free of spurious Obama parallels),…
Frederick Wiseman’s magnificent documentary offers a portrait of suppleness and agility—not just of the dancers’ bodies but of the august…
Jim Sheridan’s remake of Danish director Susanne Bier’s 2005 original about the familial and psychic trauma caused by Operation Enduring…
Don’t be misled by the cheesy, generic poster for Kirk Jones’ retelling of Giuseppe Tornatore’s 1990 Stanno tutti bene, in…
There is something oddly familiar about Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air, in which George Clooney plays a commitment-phobic business…
“Colonialism is always part of the expansion of capitalism,” opines Bolivian vice president Álvaro García Linera in Philippe Diaz’s devastating,…
Not many films, or actresses, would let the central female role of a movie be underestimated for so long. Blank-faced,…
Isn’t that a tautology—both ninja and assassin? Redundancy aside, having braved zombies in 28 Days Later, Naomie Harris now faces…
