Ben (Rob Bogue) has no job and a sexpot girlfriend (Aubrey Dollar) who wants to see other people; Colton (Josh…
The strain of living and scheming under a totalitarian regime can make for great drama, as The Lives of Others…
Who can lift the American screen comedy from a vast muck of sniggery boner gags and crap-pop bricolage? I’m pulling…
The Darjeeling Limited Fox, $29.99 With the exception of his debut—Bottle Rocket, still his most human film—all of Wes Anderson’s…
Nobody can reduce tawdry material to doddering quaintness like the British, but this staggeringly inane joint effort of U.K., Belgian,…
Stoner comic Doug Benson is nothing if not scrupulous about crediting the inspiration for this cold-turkey/baked-turkey documentary—Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size…
Writer-director Daniel Waters, who scripted Heathers eons ago, inexplicably keeps gigging. Here, the name of the game is dull vulgarity…
A brutal crackdown on left-wing dissidents by Brazil’s new military dictatorship hardly registers in a country preoccupied with the 1970…
It’s difficult to find anything bad to say about a movie featuring six adorable blind Tibetan children who are determined…
Though conceived as yet another sobering frontline report on law enforcement’s ever-expanding gray area, director David Ayer’s grim police thriller…
Lawrence Wetherhold (Dennis Quaid, beneath a greasy moptop and a brushy beard) is a misanthropic college prof who, when he’s…
On-screen and off, George Clooney is like a holdover from a time—which, admittedly, may only have ever existed in the…
Jennifer Fox’s Flying should be a supremely irritating movie. For starters, it’s a six-hour meditation on the filmmaker’s love life…
As the convergence of two cooling trends—poker and the comic mock-doc—this largely improvised comedy set at a Texas hold ’em…
For the 13th edition of the Seattle Jewish Film Festival, let’s ignore the politics of the Middle East, which are…
Fitzcarraldo hoisted a steamboat over a Peruvian mountain so that a tiny village could experience opera. Not literally as high-reaching…
Graffiti taggers wearing masks, lurking in the shadows of our urban grid, watched by security cameras, and running from the…
A haunting meditation on hubris and the folly of claiming rights over something as elemental—and temperamental—as the environment, Laura Dunn’s…
Firing off a deluge of immigrant-hardship vignettes with the thudding consistency of a tennis-ball machine, Under the Same Moon presents…
The title refers to the Estonian independence movement, incubated through the country’s stifled years as a Soviet satellite, when the…
