Blame it on George Lucas, but sci-fi today usually means the space Western: interstellar chases, ray-gun shootouts, weird lurking monsters,…
Woody Allen’s first New York movie after five years abroad, Whatever Works is his first in even longer to center…
“For the first time in my life, I felt morally certain of having written a novel for which I need…
A heaviness—call it lived-in shellshock—hangs over the green Rwandan hills in Lee Isaac Chung’s serious-minded, immersive debut. Sangwa joins fellow…
Atom Egoyan’s 12th feature film offers a typically kaleidoscopic rumination on voyeurism, videography, the relative nature of truth, and the…
Nigeria has, according to this brisk, low-to-the-ground documentary, the third-largest film industry in the world after the U.S. and India…
Eleven-year-old Anna Fitzgerald’s parents didn’t just plan for her—they customized her in utero, with the specific end of providing spare…
Kid performers naturally introduce elements of magic and mystery into the most banal situations. They are most resonant, however, when…
The first feature by Russian ethno-documentarian Sergei Dvortsevoy is a fiction founded on a powerful sense of place—and that place,…
As this baroque genealogical melodrama reaches its appropriately hysterical denouement, Vincent Gallo fixes his pale gaze on young co-star Alden…
Part of the likeable routine Michael Keaton brought to his roles in the ’80s was patter—sometimes manic, sometimes balky. In…
The premise of this gentle existential farce from Norwegian director Bent Hamer is little more than an excuse for a…
Didn’t Eric Schlosser already get his movie made? And along with Fast Food Nation, haven’t we already seen Super Size…
Quick! Noël Coward—sage or supercilious bitch? No matter where you stand, Stephan Elliott’s deliciously cheeky screen adaptation of one of…
Starring Sandra Bullock as the publishing-house boss who blackmails her assistant, played by Ryan Reynolds, into marrying her lest she…
Starting like Girls Gone Wild and finishing more like Jay McInerney, this indie tale of a rake’s progress is considerably…
In 1974, 18 years before MTV first assembled a group of comically mismatched 20-somethings and videotaped them being real, the…
Want to know how a city works? Start by watching 1974’s The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, in which…
Wednesday, June 10 7 p.m., Harvard Exit The Fortress One of several films about illegal immigrants in Europe at SIFF…
Eddie Murphy is Evan, a Denver investment consultant with a workaholic schedule that leaves little space for 7-year-old daughter Olivia…
