Like a bottled message cast from the shores of an economy whose implosion precipitated our own, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tokyo Sonata…
Russian actor/director Nikita Mikhalkov’s masterful, engrossing 12 is a revamp of 12 Angry Men that takes place in post-communist Moscow….
There’s no kind of wonderful in Mary Stuart Masterson’s directorial debut, yet however slight her ensemble drama—about two distressed families…
A pleasant little ditty from SIFF last year, this affectionate view of C-list showbiz comes from the cosseted inside of…
No longer weighted down by the perukes she had to wear in The Duchess, Keira Knightley returns to the simpler…
More than a year after its first twirl at Sundance, this Amy Adams–Emily Blunt dramedy finally shrugs its way into…
Just as we’d thought the “bromantic comedy” had overstayed its welcome, the genre reaches its high point with writer-director John…
It’s little surprise that for his second film as director, Michael Clayton director Tony Gilroy leans heavily on his favored…
Lovely to look at but too slow to get lost in, Jan Troell’s new movie is a tribute to still…
Haven’t we been here before? The inbred mutant offspring of Crash and Babel, writer-director Wayne Kramer’s Crossing Over treats the…
Why is there so much violence in south L.A.? What are the historical roots of the Bloods and Crips? Stacy…
Next time, spring for a cab. Sadly, there may not be a next time for two young women and three…
Some 23 years in the making, Ellen Kuras’ first film as a director is a portrait of Laotian refugee Thavisouk…
The center of Beauty in Trouble, Czech director Jan Hrebejk’s trying foray into soapy realism, is the kind of provincial,…
Filming the most ambitious superhero comic book ever written, director Zack Snyder has managed to address the cult while pandering…
Martin Scorsese may be presenting Matteo Garrone’s Gomorrah, but this corrosive, slapdash exposé of organized crime in and around Naples…
The best movie I’ve seen about teen angst since Donnie Darko comes…from Belgium? It’s also the best film about a…
Manuel Legris, a French dancer interviewed in Bertrand Norman’s involving study of the Russian ballet, insists that a Russian ballerina…
If Joaquin Phoenix, who plays a lovelorn bachelor in James Gray’s Two Lovers, were 12 years old, the movie might…
Aimed squarely at the Fried Green Tomatoes crowd, this female-empowerment flick gives the Lifetime Network a good name. Three women…
