The fado is a dolorous folksong tradition from Portugal, first sung in the early 19th century by barefoot peasants mending…
A big-screen, family-friendly (well, friendlier) version of the enthralling BBC/Discovery series Planet Earth, Earth follows three animal families—polar bears scavenging…
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have transformed some of the most clichéd genres with smarts, non-screechy politics, superb acting, and…
If they’re French, even dweebs get to lounge around tastefully beige Paris interiors clutching long-stemmed glasses of merlot while discussing…
An old-fashioned tale for a newfangled world, Joe Wright’s overwrought drama turns on a series of columns begun in 2005…
Assault by relentless accordion-playing, Paris 36 proves that sometimes imitation is the highest form of flatulence. Christophe Barratier follows up…
Michael Chabon’s 1988 breakthrough novel attracted many fans among the young, sensitive, Foucault-reading, Germs-listening set who were dissatisfied with that…
Even though Anvil, a four-piece speed-metal circus that once toured with soon-to-be cash-cow longhairs like Whitesnake and Bon Jovi, never…
The fact that chaste, metrosexual teen idol Zac Efron has been allowed to grow a phallus for his latest role—a…
A droll comic fable about a water shortage, a battle of the sexes, and the teenage lovers caught in the…
Ronnie Barnhardt (Seth Rogen) is the bipolar mall cop who roams the craptacular Forest Ridge Mall like a doughy Marshal…
Established artists who’ve made mid-career leaps from gallery to movie house have not easily found their footing. But British video…
Before setting pen to paper, Sin Nombre writer-director Cary Joji Fukunaga purportedly rode the rails in the company of real…
Making fun of old movies is a reliable and occasionally trenchant source of laughs—either from the sidelines, as with the…
Produced for what was likely a day’s Botox budget on Baz Luhrmann’s Australia, this auspicious Oz import—the debut feature of…
We’re not talking Dardennes here, but fellow Belgian Christophe Van Rompaey gives this light May-to-December pair-up an agreeably mussed, pedestrian…
Does anyone remember Japan? The tri-part Tokyo! revisits the Land of the Lost Decade—or at least its largest city—courtesy of…
Drawn from Superbad director Greg Mottola’s own experiences working at a ramshackle suburban amusement park in the 1980s, Adventureland feels…
Monty Miranda’s Skills Like This boasts the arguable distinction of being the first film produced in Colorado to be picked…
Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas is part stuntmeister, part visionary—a post-Warhol impresario and trained diplomat who, flirting with fraudulence and often…
