Boldly reanimating the comic Western that secured John Wayne his Oscar 41 years ago, the Coen brothers’ True Grit is…
Jeff Bridges is God and, as image-captured from the original 1982 Tron, he’s also the devil in Disney’s mega-million-dollar reboot,…
The Fighter is based on the true story of Lowell, Mass., light welterweight champ “Irish” Micky Ward, but, starring Boston…
A near-irresistible exercise in bravura absurdity, Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan deserves to become a minor classic of heterosexual camp—at the…
Claire Denis’ tense, convulsive White Material is a portrait of change and a thing of terrible beauty. The time is…
A feature-length portrait of a pop-music genius as (pre-)convicted murderer, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector lives up…
Announced at Cannes in 2007 and scheduled to shoot that summer, Andrei Konchalovsky’s version of The Nutcracker arrives several Thanksgivings…
Boxing Gym is 80-year-old documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s 38th feature. Despite, or perhaps because of, its relatively modest length and ordinary…
Comely, independent, willful young lass returns to collect family inheritance in rural England, drives the local men wild, and inadvertently…
As suggested by its title, Allen Ginsberg’s game-changing poem Howl is essentially performative—and so is Howl, the Sundance-opening quasi-biographical movie…
Charles Ferguson’s follow-up to his Iraq War gut-twister No End in Sight is a documentary that inspires sickening ire—20 minutes…
Is America’s last cowboy icon prospecting for more Oscar gold? Taking for his map an original screenplay by British docu-dramatist…
C.W. Winter and Anders Edström’s The Anchorage uses a narrative structure introduced to more powerful effect 35 years ago in…
Published five years ago, Kazuo Ishiguro’s massively praised Never Let Me Go is set in an alternate universe where life…
As directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin, Facebook mogul Mark Zuckerberg is a character far more compelling…
Written and directed by Samuel Maoz, Lebanon is not just the year’s most impressive first feature but also the strongest…
Daring discomfited viewers to laugh at shame and suffering, and then wonder why we’re laughing, Todd Solondz is back. Life…
Opening with a deeply sincere “I don’t give a fuck!”, Austin filmmaker Ben Steinbauer’s investigative doc sets out to prove…
Alain Resnais’ Wild Grass has plenty of fans—it copped an award at Cannes in 2009—but I don’t see what they…
Serious comedy, powered by an enthusiastic cast and full of good-natured innuendo, Lisa Cholodenko’s Kids gives adolescent coming-of-age and the…
