In comparison to just about every other film Joel and Ethan Coen have directed in the last fifteen years or so, A Serious Man seems…
Ricky Gervais has ample amount of personality and charm. He made the British version of The Office into the cult hit it has become, and…
Steven Soderbergh made an interesting choice in telling the story of Mark Whitacre, the agri-food exec who turned informant and paid a price. Part fraud,…
The single worst thing that ever happened to Michael Moore — as artist, as thinker, as gleefully sardonic agitator — was becoming incredibly rich and…
All tearjerkers are not created equal. This is a point too rarely acknowledged. When it comes to pocket-sized tragedies, those tidy doses of Hollywood-friendly catharsis,…
Based on the writings of the late David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is a movie for people who like to listen to books…
Scary notion: what if YouTube, with its streaming transmissions of home-movie inanity and fleeting flashes of sign o’ the times import, was our first and…
The work of Parisian auteur Claire Denis has been cause célébre for many film critics over the last two decades. Her adoring supporters do backflips…
Japanese masters Yasujiro Ozu and Mikio Naruse (among others) tapped into a cathartic cinema that favors real-time pacing and treats sequences of a tree quivering…
A VH1 programmer’s (wet) dream come true, It Might Get Loud assembles three generations of guitar gods under one roof, where they’ll talk shop, swap…
Bright Star, Jane Campion’s visually luscious period romance, tells the story of poet John Keats (impish British actor Ben Whishaw), and his immortalized love affair…
A web of tangled bare arms and legs, hands and feet and locked lips; this is the image in Alexis Dos Santos’ Unmade Beds that’s…
The moment an actor signs on to impersonate a well-known figure in a film is the moment that actor gives up any chance of delivering…
Demetri Martin is one of the best observational comedians. His relaxed yet sincere demeanor melds so perfectly with his dead-pan delivery, and his Comedy Central…
Put a woman in jail and she is either a victim or a martyr. The brilliance of Argentinean director Pablo Trapero’s fifth feature film, Lion’s…
Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín’s darkly compelling second film, Tony Manero, is a sadistic character study set in 1978 Santiago. It’s unrelenting and often unpleasant to…
Lorna’s Silence, the latest award-winning film from Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, begs discussion. Its unresolved ending tends to have a polarizing effect on…
Modest Sundance hit The Answer Man is one of those films that seems to erase itself from your memory days after seeing it. It’s a hokey…
Francis Ford Coppola’s Youth Without Youth didn’t do his career many favors. At least not from audiences and critics that were confounded by the seemingly…
Not unlike last year’s Academy Award-winning doc Man on Wire (which also played at the Provincetown Film Festival), Louie Psihoyos’ The Cove utilizes familiar narrative…