As evidenced by The Informant!, it’s a hell of a tricky thing to turn real-life pulp into floss sugar. The…
Set in the bucolic suburbs of early-19th-century London, as fresh and dewy as a newly mowed lawn, Jane Campion’s Bright…
By the time the brilliant fuck-up of a hero says to the heroine, “Why do you do that—say something super-smart…
Early in Shane Acker’s computer-animated debut feature 9, a diminutive anthropomorphic whatsit with wooden hands, copper fingers, and the titular…
Founded by self-described urban guerrillas Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Ulrike Meinhof, the Red Army Faction were the Weather Underground,…
The great idiosyncratic original of the French nouvelle vague generation, Agnès Varda began her career as a photographer, and, in…
You, the Living flips through 50-some single-panel vignettes, many very funny, arranged by Roy Andersson, a Swedish director best known…
From a Seattle-made midlife comedy of disappointment is career resurgence found.
After the acclaimed Gomorrah, Italian corruption gets a much quieter but equally vigorous workout in Paolo Sorrentino’s highly stylized portrait…
Your enjoyment of My One and Only will depend on how much the words “inspired by incidents in the life…
Comedian Bob “Bobcat” Goldthwait was exploring inappropriate humor long before Shakes the Clown or the little-seen Stay (in which a…
In Melvin Van Peebles’ homely home-video-art love-story curio, incorporating fragments of his 1982 stage musical Waltz of the Stork, the…
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, secular worker-priests of the Belgian cinema, emerge once more from their lower depths. In describing one…
How we view the relationship between traditional and new media should forever be changed by Danish filmmaker Anders Østergaard’s terrific…
In his quiet way, Jeff Daniels can coax to vivid life the most cardboard type—which is just as well, given…
Marketed as a guitar summit with The Edge, Jimmy Page, and Jack White, Davis Guggenheim’s affectionate, intermittently insightful behind-the-music doc…
With an Oscar on the mantel for producing and directing An Inconvenient Truth, Davis Guggenheim decided to take a break…
“If you remember Woodstock, you probably weren’t there,” the expression goes. And if you were, can you please stop gassing…
Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment—rich in fantasy and blithely amoral. The movie…
Since his 1996 grunge-rock documentary Hype!, Doug Pray has become an ever-more-adept assembler of polished images. And where else would…
