THURSDAY, MAY 22 Battle in Seattle A sort of teargas–drenched version of Crash, Battle in Seattle is a gritty evocation…
Director Jean-Pierre Limosin’s Young Yakuza, a documentary on the immersion of a troubled Japanese youth into the shadowy, sorta-legal-but-still-illicit world…
Is Meet Bill the worst movie ever? Probably not, but it’s certainly incoherent enough to give Gigli a run for…
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It’s been 20 years since Errol Morris made The Thin Blue Line—a found “noir” that served to free an innocent…
If you haven’t heard, things got a little out of hand back in November—November of 1999, that is. WTO protesters,…
Predicated on the spectacle of functionally depressed types stuck in mildly ridiculous situations not entirely of their own making, the…
Claude Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman may be one of the silliest love songs in the canon of French…
The third feature by Harmony Korine, once the reigning Man You Love to Hate of American indie cinema, is just…
Director Bari Pearlman got the opportunity of a lifetime when a Buddhist spiritual leader invited her to accompany him on…
The South, Without White-Trash Clichés
Messy Italian Politics Explained as Sibling Rivalry
Convicts Embrace the Buddha
David Mamet Puts Himself in a Headlock
In the 1980s, three Mississippi 12-year-olds famously spent six years filming a shot-for-shot VHS remake of Raiders of the Lost…
French Gore-Fest Says Non to Neo-Nazis
The Best Spy Spoof Since Austin Powers
The Wachowski Brothers Regress Into Their TV Infancy
Chalk it up to personal preference, but I’ve always been fonder of those comic-book heroes who emerge by intent rather…
The Red Balloon was the art-house E.T. of 1956. Flight of the Red Balloon is something far more baffling—a literal-minded…
