It’s the middle of the afternoon and I’m waiting in a theater sparsely populated with a dozen other strangers. Suddenly the lights dim, the curtains…
Until now, the critically acclaimed filmmaker Joe Wright has had an impressive career. In 2005, Wright moved from made-for-television productions like Charles II: The Power…
If the classic science fiction films of the 1950s largely mirrored the paranoia and fear of an America in the grips of a cold war,…
Hypnotic, elliptically opaque, and dreamlike, The Limits of Control may test the limits of Jarmusch fans calling themselves card-carrying Jarmusch fans. If Broken Flowers was…
Given the market’s desire for escapist films and an audience’s need to placate a media-induced fear of Mexico, the high profile Mexican film Rudo y…
The opening salvo in 2009’s summer movie season, and in the battle for our expendable income, X-Men Origins: Wolverine is both straightforward and efficient. The…
There’s likely to be no better opening sequence in a film this year than the one found in Austrian director Gotz Spielmann’s fifth feature, Revanche.…
State of Play has everything one would expect from a great political thriller: an all star cast, one of Hollywood’s hottest writers doing some of…
Sacha Gervasi’s tremendously funny, yet achingly painful, documentary chronicles the attempted resurgence of the titular ’80s metal also-rans. Anvil! The Story of Anvil is among…
If you could live your life all over again, would you do anything differently? Is there a crucial, life-altering moment in your past that you…
Ramin Bahrani’s first two films, 2006’s Man Push Cart and 2008’s Chop Shop, wear the Iranian-American director’s neorealist influences proudly, and their release marked the…
It’s a pain to review omnibus films. To do so is to review (in this case at least) three separate features, weighing the hits and…