Twelve days of seasonal merriment, and then some. This comic, ultimately touching family melodrama is a heady plum pudding of…
Elsa (Margherita Buy) and Michele (Antonio Albanese) have a problem: They’re a married couple in a middlebrow arthouse movie. When…
Who wants to be a millionaire? Well, who wouldn’t in this economy, even if the currency in question is rupees…
This lucid Swedish indie gem, adapted for the screen by John Ajvide Lindqvist from his novel and directed with imagination…
Those of us who adored Casino Royale, the 2006 reboot of the haggard, self-parodic James Bond franchise, had some trouble…
Javier Bardem must be in here someplace. Yet skimming through my clutch of preview DVDs, I failed to find him….
In every way, this is just another formulaic romp about two selfish slackers getting their priorities rearranged by a couple…
Some musical footnotes remain just that for good reason. Rough contemporaries of the recently reunited Sonics, the Monks were a…
A film that Eric Rohmer has suggested will be his last, Astrea and Celadon is a costume pageant that serenely…
If you traveled the length of John Malkovich’s medulla oblongata and walked through the adjoining door of the interstellar hotel…
One of those charming little documentaries that make you question whether the human race is really worth preserving, Irena Salina’s…
As Juliette, a Frenchwoman newly released from prison, Kristin Scott Thomas is so relentlessly unbending, so full of necessary enigma,…
Oliver Stone’s surprisingly sympathetic biopic W. isn’t the only Bush movie at the multiplex. An American Carol opened last month…
In Soul Men, actor-comedian Bernie Mac, who passed away in August, plays Floyd Henderson, a present-day car-wash mogul who back…
While some may snicker at “graphic novel” as a term for comic books that take themselves too seriously, the French…
Leaving Milwaukee to tell an indigenous tale of life on India’s west coast, director/DP Chris Smith inevitably brings an outsider’s…
Gleefully demonizing both the British “chav” working class and the horror genre’s usual target audience of mid-teen males, Eden Lake…
This meager cross-cultural romantic comedy stars Jesse Metcalfe as ultra-smooth New York advertising executive Granger and Bollywood actress Shriya Saran…
Ostensibly, this should be money-shot Kevin Smith: Pals make a porn to pay the bills, and, in the process of…
What do you have to do to get your career revoked in England, short of being Gary Glitter? After a…
