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Guy Hibbert’s novel-writing process for Five Minutes is an interesting experiment. In 1975, Ulsterite Alistair Little killed Catholic Joe Griffen’s…
What’s remarkable about Still Walking, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s seventh feature film, is that the familiar comes across as fresh….
Ostensibly, Free Style is one of those uplifting family movies built around a niche sport a la 1993’s rollerblading cash-in…
The Yiddish shtetl shtick that opens Joel and Ethan Coen’s new movie—a Jewish peasant stumbles on an old Hasid who…
Less a movie than a traveling circus, this scattershot, lazy slice of agitprop recycles Moore’s usual slice-and-dice job on corporations,…
When earlier this decade I worked as a freelancer for a publication two floors below Vogue, each sighting of Anna…
The plot hook here sounds like a pileup of Jim Carrey–Tom Shadyac concept comedies. Ricky Gervais’ fuzzy parable exists in…
At last—a zombie movie vegans can endorse. This new plague was caused by mad cow disease, we’re told by our…
In the Oscar derby for Best Actor, is it better to die or to grieve? Clive Owen opts for the…
Did you know that goy god Steve McQueen got an early walk-on on a Jewish television sitcom? That’s just one…
Tucker Max got famous through a Web site detailing how being an asshole to women constantly got him laid, making…
Making the rounds on talk shows (Stephen Colbert, NPR, Good Morning America, etc.), author Colin Beavan soon recognizes and runs…
Chris Fuller’s powerfully unsettling debut—written in 1997 when the director was just 15—is a starkly lyrical portrait of angry, disaffected…
Paris, as overdocumented as any great city, still has new facets to reflect. For proof, see Claire Denis’ idiosyncratically observed…
Another heartbreaking drama about Arabs and their mistreatment in the United States. Palestinians Muna (Nisreen Faour) and teen son Fadi…
It takes considerable effort to make Darren Aronofsky seem like a model of restraint, but Robert Siegel pulls it off…
Commissioned by the Eurostar train company as part of the promotional campaign for its new high-speed rail service from London…
Commissioned by and first performed (in 2007) at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Sufjan Stevens’ orchestral suite isn’t strictly a…
Oregon restaurant manager Charlize Theron, prone to submissive promiscuity and self-inflicted violence, sits naked in bed next to her lover….
