Hamlet 2 debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January, where it sold for $10 million to Focus Features—which makes…
Like The Story of the Weeping Camel and Mongolian Ping Pong, Tuya’s Marriage is partly an anthropological survey of Inner…
I’m pretty sure that’s a fake mole glued on the nose of actress Miki Nakatani—a badge, as it were, of…
Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven wears current events on its sleeve, feeling out the state of German-Turkish relationships as…
Perhaps this review should begin with a disclaimer: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen’s 39th film as writer-director, will do little…
If Melissa Leo were Charlize Theron with artfully applied bags under the eyes, an Oscar nomination would surely be forthcoming…
Henry Poole is dying. Diagnosed with an unspecified fatal disease, Poole (Luke Wilson) retreats into the numbing sunniness of suburban…
Ben Stiller is back in the sendup business, nibbling gently at the soft, manicured hands that feed him and co-stars…
A combat doc once removed from combat and twice mediated by stagecraft, Tony Gerber and Jesse Moss’ Iraq (or rather…
Vagrants apparently don’t need a home address to feel a patriotic duty to their homeland, or so attests Susan Koch’s…
But the movies? Not so much.
Resist if you dare, and for as long as you must, but even the hoariest haters eventually succumbed to the…
In the post–Pulp Fiction ’90s, one could throw a rock at random and hit a two-bit Quentin Tarantino knockoff—all chatty…
This scattershot documentary recapitulates vintage Beauty Myth trumpery: Beauty standards make us average frumps miserable and are the conspiratorial invention…
It offers precisely what it advertises: a roll-’em-up, smoke-’em-up, blow-’em-up bromantic comedy from the freaks and geeks who have made…
Based on the 2004 novel by Jonathan Trigell (itself rooted in real news events), Boy A is the rare film…
A hookup between Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz!
Part caper movie, part real-life superhero saga, and entirely engrossing, James Marsh’s documentary recounts in Rififi-like detail how a Parisian…
At once cerebral film essay and unsweetened ear candy, Pere Portabella’s Silence Before Bach is nearly as tough to categorize…
Director Nanette Burstein is so intent here on making a nonfiction version of The Breakfast Club that she erases every…
