Remember Giuseppe Tornatore, who made the overrated but harmlessly cute Cinema Paradiso, about the grumpy projectionist who made him the…
Ed Norton is Ray Tierney, a good cop whose scar on his left cheek suggests deeper damage caused by a…
The protag of Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky is a modestly gaudy people’s heroine industriously repairing the social world, one frayed interaction…
Writer-director Stewart Wade’s Tru Loved is a kitschier incarnation of an after-school special: hokey and simplistic, but also gawkily sweet-natured….
Rescued from a City Hall junk heap by journalist-turned-screenwriter J. Michael Straczinski, this 1928 true tale of a missing child’s…
Hurricane Katrina’s third anniversary roughly coincided with the Republican and Democratic national conventions. If the two presidential candidates haven’t talked…
From its attention-grabbing B-movie beginning, this family drama (based on the bestselling novel by Sue Monk Kidd) chugs pleasantly into…
Jaw-droppingly arcane and dripping with self-regard, Barry Levinson’s tedious excuse for a Hollywood caper asks us, as if we haven’t…
W. may be less frenzied than the usual Oliver Stone sensory bombardment, but in revisiting the early ’00s by way…
Those who believe that Jonathan Demme went all soft with Philadelphia and never recovered may not be reassured by his…
Somebody’s got to pick up where Bono left off, right? A Bay Area musician and Live Aid baby, Justin Dillon…
Director Eric Guirado’s The Grocer’s Son is a small, self-assured film that moves at its own pace, always staying one…
In my day, you had to visit a dozen Blockbusters to find a ratty copy of The Decline of Western…
Few Americans would argue with Winston Churchill’s dictum: “In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended…
The story of Syracuse running back Ernie Davis—the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy, in 1961, two years before…
Claude Chabrol, who should soon be shooting his 70th feature, is at once wildly prolific and utterly faithful—at least to…
Like Amos Gitai’s 1999 Kadosh, Israeli writer-director David Volach’s first feature has scores to settle with ultra-Orthodox Judaism, especially as…
Bill Maher’s one-man stand-up attack on religious fundamentalism is a dog that has more bark than bite—a skeptical, secular-humanist hounding…
Whether it’s score-settling culture theft, a fever dream of interlinked Wild-West mythology, or simply a company casserole of way-cool cinema,…
Based on Toby Young’s tome about his spectacular fuckups and flame-out at Vanity Fair, Robert Weide’s big-screen version is sitcom-drab….
