The solemn new addition to the tiny elementary-school faculty in a rural Czech outpost gets off to a heavily symbolic…
There’s not much to this thin, sun-drenched concoction about a straight-arrow Paris lawyer (Fabrice Luchini) who descends on the titular…
In this lushly produced but dispiriting new comedy, Katherine Heigl stars as Abby Richter, a successful but hopelessly uptight TV…
Coming down from the Saturday sugar rush of his 2006 comedy Duck Season, Mexican auteur Fernando Eimbcke’s lovely, Yucatán-set dramedy…
Michael Jacobs’ Audience of One belongs to a particular nonfiction genre—the docu-exploitation of a spectacularly miscarried movie. Jacobs’ hapless protagonist…
Tatia Rosenthal’s stop-motion animation feature adds a measure of stolid creepiness to co-writer Etgar Keret’s brand of dark whimsy. Like…
Tibetan Buddhism has become the Hello Kitty/noble lost cause for Western spiritual seekers. But though the Dalai Lama does make…
For those ambivalent about whether stoning women to death is a cruel punishment or not, here’s a dutifully plodding if…
Can there be a thing as too much cute? This is the dilemma for Summer (also the name of Zooey…
Don’t let the PG rating fool you: The dark arts are back with a vengeance in Harry Potter and the…
Each new superfluous Jennifer Aniston rom-com is already met with low expectations, but add some overcooked, middlebrow Indiewood quirk (skydiving…
An unpretentious and old-fashioned (that is, crisply legible) domestic drama, Kabei shows how Rising Sun Japan’s sense of national destiny…
Wilma Stephenson runs her high-school culinary-arts class like a Marine sergeant: She’s loud, cranky, and prone to threatening bodily harm….
Gary Hustwit name-checks his stylish 2007 typography doc Helvetica in this second film of a proposed nerd-porn trilogy, a slickly…
Willkommen to the new Sacha Baron Cohen extravaganza Brüno (directed by guerrilla filmmaker Larry Charles), which is often hilarious. Is…
Let’s save the snickering bromance jokes for another day, another movie. Local director Lynn Shelton is no Judd Apatow,…
There’s nothing more cinematic than a ticking bomb and the life-or-death deadline to defuse it. The LED numbers are…
Though hardly landmarks of narrative or animation art, the first two Ice Ages were warm and goofy and appealing; John…
It’s every 14-year-old boy’s dream: You get to command a giant, Transformers-style battle-bot against colossal enemy robots, while Tokyo crumbles…
Abu Raed (Nadim Sawalha) is an elderly widower who works as a janitor at the international airport in Amman, Jordan….
