Bad doctors, in social settings, brag about their jobs. The good ones are less self-aggrandizing, so it’s not initially obvious…
Richard Linklater has every reason to be proud of his latest movie, and he knows it. Visiting town in May…
Car racing, like yacht racing and horse racing, is the province of the rich. Or the corporate-sponsored; there’s a reason…
This is the kind of comedy where a divorced father—covered in gold body paint, lugging a giant cross (with a…
If you grew up in Boston, the criminal legend of James “Whitey” Bulger might carry some weight, particularly if you…
Eight Los Angeles friends gather for an ordinary meal, which is then interrupted by a mysterious crisis. That film was…
Car racing, like yacht racing and horse racing, is the province of the rich. Or the corporate-sponsored; there’s a reason…
Forgotten writers seldom return to favor. There’s Melville and… that’s about it. Rarely read today, French writer Violette Leduc (1907–1972)…
This documentary about the short life of Internet hacktivist Aaron Swartz (1986–2013) begins and ends with heartbreaking home movies of…
The bigger the camera, the bigger your subject should be. One reason Titanic worked so well, back in ’97, was…
Korengal Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington came to SIFF 2010 with their acclaimed war doc Restrepo, which they filmed at…
Hellion Although much of Hellion, set in southeast Texas, feels off-the-shelf and familiar, debut writer/director Kat Candler isn’t one to…
The cult massacre-by-suicide popularly known as Jonestown took place on November 18, 1978, long before the embrace of the Internet….
When this doc played the film festival last year, the success of Initiative 502 was still fresh in our minds….
I want to hate the Koch brothers. You want to hate the Koch brothers. Yet this clumsy advocacy doc makes…
To make a good documentary, you need to have a good subject. But more important, you have to be lucky….
It was with a $35,000 Kickstarter campaign two years ago that Capitol Hill photographer Matika Wilbur, a member of the…
Opens Fri., June 20 at Guild 45th and Lincoln Square. Rated R. 85 minutes. Written and directed by Gillian Robespierre,…
The Discoverers Opens Fri., June 20 at Varsity. Not rated. 104 minutes. Griffin Dunne, where ya been? The ’80s didn’t…
Lucky Them Runs Fri., June 13–Thurs., June 26 at Northwest Film Forum. Rated R. 96 minutes. Something about movies set…
