Nowhere in this fine, quiet, richly-sourced documentary is the phrase “gay marriage” ever uttered. But then, the relationship at hand…
Feature-length elaborations on quirky, inspiring human-interest stories are generally to be avoided, but I’ll make an exception for A Man…
Seventy-seven-year-old Elsa (Uruguayan actress China Zorrilla) has what might charitably be called “an outsized personality.” Exuberant, garrulous, completely self-absorbed, she…
Australian comic Shane Jacobson, who has the body of a lumberjack and the sweetly innocent face of a newborn, makes…
Swing Vote is about twice as smart as you expect it to be and still only half as smart as…
Along its winding road to crucifying the American judiciary, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired—which already aired to mostly warm reviews…
A stubbornly affecting drama that’s far stronger in its quieter moments, writer-director Kari Skogland’s adaptation of the late Canadian novelist…
Neil Young wanted to tour the country that re-elected George W. Bush, dole out some demerits, light some fires, and…
Writer-director Adam McKay (Anchorman, Talladega Nights) and his muse, writer-star Will Ferrell, reteam for another round of absurdist high-wire antics,…
The camaraderie of the undesired: Invisible to everyone else, pinched, late-blooming Marie (Pauline Acquart) pairs with Anne (Louise Blachère), a…
Spare yet tactile, a mysterious mixture of lightness and gravity, Alexander Sokurov’s Alexandra is founded on contradiction. Musing on war…
Sure, it’s nice that the actors sing their own numbers—Meryl Streep has a fab set of pipes, and the fact…
Director Scott Hicks (Shine) must have felt some temptation to make this documentary into something like a fourth “Qatsi” film,…
Catherine Breillat hitches her wagon to the hottest of European stars, Asia Argento, in a highly entertaining adaptation of Jules-Amédée…
What a brooding pleasure it is to return to Christopher Nolan’s Gotham City–if “pleasure” is the right word for a…
A mixtape of clichés. Writer-director Jonathan Levine takes cuts from a dozen or more “life-affirming” coming-of-age melodramas and sets them…
At 76, Japanese writer-director Yoji Yamada is still best known in his homeland for a one-time Guinness Book record-holding series…
Beastie Boy Adam Yauch’s sports documentary concerns a phenomenon proliferated by the broadband age: premature national sports stardom at the…
You’ve seen this movie before, only not in German. Fleeing an abusive and possibly dangerous ex-husband, Yella (the perpetually wary,…
Give this guy his own TV show already. Three years after Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog is back with more oddballs…
