“My name is Tracey Berkowitz. Fifteen. Just a normal girl who hates herself.” Again leading as a deadpan, snarky,…
Impassioned lefties John Cusack, cult novelist Mark Leyner, and Bulworth scribe Jeremy Pikser co-wrote this ineffectual Iraq War farce, which…
Making his directorial debut, screenwriter Steven Conrad (who previously wrote The Weather Man and The Pursuit of Happyness) continues his…
Russian mobsters, Hong Kong gangsters, murder in Italy, sex tourism in Nepal, and sheep rustling in Sardiniaits an international crime wave! See our SIFF Guide 2008 for more. By SW staff and contributors
All the hallmarks of an Adam Sandler vehicle are present in his latest, a comedy about an ’80s-obsessed, disco-loving Israeli…
Boorish tae kwon do instructor Fred Simmons (Danny McBride) is a strip-mall hero for whom demonstrating his cinder-block-breaking skills to…
In October 2001, a Fort Worth, Texas, nurse’s aide named Chante Mallard struck 37-year-old Gregory Glenn Biggs with her 1997…
Slovenly gays resist gentrification. Iranian trannies overcome Islamic strictures. Cannibalism in the Andes. The first mumblecore horror film. See our SIFF Guide 2008 for more.
By all means, gather up the little ones and take them to this perfectly pleasant, very good-looking, modestly funny, dispiritingly…
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For its first half, Doug Pray’s mesmerizingly ambivalent documentary about an itinerant family of Jewish surfer health nuts operates in…
Russell Crowe narrates—and is reportedly developing a dramatic remake of—this compact history of Australia’s notorious Maroubra Beach community, an economically…
Suggesting an American remake of David Moreau and Xavier Palud’s Them, The Strangers is practically an abstraction: an old-school spooker…
Something like a pain-fueled, R-rated Princess Bride, The Fall straddles the intertwined worlds of storytelling and story. One half is…
Fashionista Karl Lagerfeld cultivated his iconic reputation working at a variety of established labels—moving from Chloé to Fendi to the…
Oh, please—spoiler alert? Fine, I won’t tell you whether Carrie Bradshaw ties the knot with Mr. Big, even though you’ve…
What to see, or not, this week.
British plantation owner and colonialist extraordinaire Henry Moores (Linus Roache) fancies himself the cowboy of Kerala, cavorting around the jungle…
Putting words in the mouths of the homeless.
Local director learns to twirl her tassels.
