An easy movie to despise but an impossible one to shake, Michael Haneke’s brilliant exercise in audience thumb-screwing—a virtual…
Time and Winds is a film bewitched by the rhythms of everyday life in a remote Turkish village. Director…
Near the beginning of The Counterfeiters, a fact-based Holocaust drama by Austrian filmmaker Stefan Ruzowitzky, we meet Jewish money forger…
For an obscure tale of a virginal London governess who discovers her true calling running interference for a giddy…
“That girl thinks she’s the queen of the neighborhood—I’ve got news for you, SHE IS!” Bikini Kill, of…
Having returned from Africa, “held prisoner by savages for two years before fleeing,” the Marquis de Montriveau (Guillaume Depardieu)…
American Gangster Universal, $29.98 Director Ridley Scott’s take on the true-life tale of Harlem heroin kingpin Frank Lucas didn’t need…
The English media have spent the better part of a year back-and-forthing over the true-or-false plot points of the 1971-set…
Most of the advance buzz about The Business of Being Born has centered around an image of its producer,…
The Band’s Visit made headlines last fall after being disqualified as Israel’s foreign-language submission to the 2008 Academy Awards—an ironic…
Better than Blades of Glory, which wasn’t nearly as good as Talladega Nights, which was a little better than…
There’s an amusing 15-minute short buried in Dale Kutzera’s debut feature, a spoof of World War II–era Army training…
“A Fairy Tale Like No Other”? Penelope‘s influences are right up front—there’s the Tim Burton production design (overstocking each…
Taking its title from a 1964 Artforum article linking the rebellious spirit and bop attitudes of West Coast art to…
The movies could use more performers who look as if they’d just stepped off the opera stage. We need…
Remember the 1985 movie version of the Parker Brothers whodunit board game Clue, with its pre-DVD-era gimmick of multiple endings?…
Alice’s House is an utterly average foreign art-house film, with all the strengths and flaws that label implies. Writer-director…
Among the most graphically violent works of art ever committed to celluloid, this mindblower of a film transcends the…
Note by Note Given rapt attention and care in the framing, there is no more engrossing subject than man at…
Like most wanna-be heroes of the eager-to-please teen comedy, poor little rich boy Charlie Bartlett (Anton Yelchin) is too…
