The multiply blessed young Lebanese writer-director Nadine Labaki looks sublimely like Anna Magnani crossed with Penélope Cruz. She also has…
Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Stones concert film is not only a vanity project for everyone involved, it’s a total tongue bath….
If Live and Become strikes you as a vague title, the young protagonist of Radu Mihaileanu’s film would despairingly agree….
This documentary is firmly rooted in a premise that Americans love and hold dear as a reflection of our collective…
Actor-screenwriter Simon Pegg’s follow-up to the surprise hits Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz isn’t as quirky or distinctive…
There’s basically one reason to see Olivier Assayas’ self-consciously meta-sleazy English-French-Chinese-language globo-thriller, and her name is Asia Argento. Argento’s Sandra—a…
Two modern couples of distant social strata convene at crotch-level in Lost in Beijing. Lin Dong (Tony Leung Ka-fai) is…
Ben Mezrich’s 2002 best-seller. Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions,…
Adam Carolla is one of those journeymen comics you kinda know from television—on MTV’s old Loveline sex-advice show, on Crank…
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Warner Bros., $27.98 Beautifully shot, masterfully acted, and 19 hours…
Shelter bides its time with innocuous snapshots of local SoCal color—crashing waves, crystal-blue skies, natives who pronounce the “r” in…
Both lowbrow romp and art film, this Japanese compendium of 21 short vignettes plays like a three-way date movie for…
A nonjudgmental re-creation of 25-year-old Mark David Chapman’s 1980 assassination of the peacenik pop star—from three months prior to the…
The pleasing circularity of Gus Van Sant’s masterful Paranoid Park is not only a function of the film’s narrative structure…
An unusually blunt melodrama by David Gordon Green, melodious poet of such sentimental delicacies as George Washington and All the…
Film noir and melodrama cast a long shadow over Ira Sachs’ look back at the rotting heart of the ’50s…
Something of a departure for Hong Kong’s reigning master of special-effects slapstick Stephen Chow, CJ7 is a father-son fable…
When the press notes tell you that a neophyte local director (Gil Ponce) quit his job, sold his house,…
Thirteen months after Hubert Humphrey was nominated for president in a hall ringed with barbed wire and surrounded by…
Even though one of the earliest appeals of cinema was the window it opened onto other cultures and continents,…
