Both a handy election primer and a bowel-rattling cry of fiscal doom, I.O.U.S.A. is an Inconvenient Truth for the debt…
The big-screen version of inventor Robert Kearns’ legal battles with Ford and Chrysler—both of whom nicked his intermittent windshield wiper…
A regional festival sticks within its boundaries.
The most recent example of bleak chic, Fernando Meirelles’ mostly harrowing adaptation of José Saramago’s international bestseller Blindness is unflinching…
For the three Muslim-American stand-up comics showcased in this concert film, terror is something more than stage fright. Mohammed “Mo”…
Peter Sollett’s 2002 Raising Victor Vargas remains among the most pointed, poignant, and joyful films about teen love ever made….
On the remote Uruguayan seaside, Alex’s parents have sequestered their daughter, hoping to keep her secret hidden from the world….
The name Jonathan Santos has been mostly forgotten by Northwest readers, though he briefly made news in the fall of…
The world’s oldest civilization is in some respects the world’s newest. And 37-year-old filmmaker Jia Zhangke, the preeminent cine-chronicler of…
You’ve got to hand it to Spike Lee for managing to secure the financing for this big-budget, three-hour World War…
There’s a whole lotta fucking going on in Choke, Clark Gregg’s adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s first-person novel about a sex…
Nights works so strenuously to satisfy its target audience’s every desire that it’s a minor surprise that the filmmakers didn’t…
If you transplanted Weeds to far northern California’s “lost coast,” where pot growers and meth-tweaking rednecks exist in mossy discord,…
Set in the titular suburb in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley (where Rodney King was assaulted by police in 1991),…
Young Hallam Foe (Jamie Bell) is convinced that his stepmother (Claire Forlani) accelerated her upward trajectory from Dad’s secretary to…
Equally a portrait of the artist and of a decade, this celebratory documentary makes the short, accelerated life of Keith…
It takes a good while for Ricky Gervais to warm up in Ghost Town; it takes even longer for the…
No movie made in Seattle has had so much positive local brand awareness as Battle in Seattle, even if most…
As an escape from the Hollywood machine that hired him for products like Maid in Manhattan and Last Holiday, filmmaker…
Based on an anthology of short stories published by Japanese writer Natsume Soseki in 1908, Ten Nights is a sometimes…
