Given his preference for static, symmetrical, scrupulously color-coordinated and art-directed compositions, it’s less surprising that Wes Anderson has gotten around…
The anti-globalist performance guys who call themselves the Yes Men are masters of forging corporate rhetoric and media protocols. Their…
After a decade navigating Hollywood, John Woo returned to China to make his latest film, but scale back he did…
I’m Not There screenwriter Oren Moverman makes his directorial debut with this moving and nuanced drama about the home-front readjustment…
Another poor, massive, uneducated African-American teenager lumbers onto screens this month, soon after Precious and obviously timed as a pre-Thanksgiving…
Like E.T. in reverse, this pleasantly mediocre CG animation tale lands an astronaut on a distant planet whose green, four-fingered,…
Other than a few tasty tidbits, like the fact that he wrote Joseph McCarthy’s will while still a young family…
In her broad outlines, Claireece Precious Jones risks sounding like the epitome of ghetto cliché: an obese, illiterate 16-year-old; mother…
Aiming wide and missing, this satire of the contemporary-art scene was seemingly lifted from the transcripts of late-’80s Senate debates…
As with his previous films, Argentine director Lisandro Alonso’s Liverpool is defined by its trajectory. A taciturn merchant sailor named…
Seven months after its theatrical release in the UK, and two months after its DVD debut there, Pirate Radio washes…
Completing his multi-film vendetta against the world’s tourist trade, German-born director Roland Emmerich sends the mother of all storms to…
The Devil, apparently, lives in an out-of-the-way gingerbread Victorian, just past the cemetery, where college sophomore Samantha (Jocelin Donahue) is…
Documentarian Ondi Timoner lends her credulity and camera to swollen, damaged egos who believe themselves visionaries. We Live in Public…
Nothing if not consistent, Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre director Jared Hess once again presents adolescence as a depressive, outsider…
Filmmaker Troy Duffy certainly makes an easy target—at least his former friends thought so when they made the 2003 doc…
Seventy-one years after Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds radio broadcast snookered a gullible American public with its real-time alien-invasion…
Goats begins with the mind-fucking assertion that “more of this is true than you would believe.” And would you believe…
The title is a double entendre in An Education, the film version of British journalist Lynn Barber’s memoir about the…
There’s a moment in this documentary when the father of its subject, an autistic child named Rowan, explains his son’s…
