More than ever, boiling this concluding year down to the 10 “best” movies feels both arbitrary and reductive. Ideally, I’d…
Now a prosperous Hollywood insider, he tells of his struggle to make Django Unchained.
A highly improvised fictional exposé in search of the elusive heart and soul of hipster nihilism, The Comedy stars alt-comic…
Early in this movie, Alfred Hitchcock (played by Sir Anthony Hopkins with a sack of fat connecting chin to neck)…
An adaptation of George V. Higgins’ 1974 novel Cogan’s Trade, Andrew Dominik’s Killing Them Softly anatomizes a self-policing underground economy…
This found-footage eco-horror cheapie—in which a waterborne parasite mutates into an unstoppable human-flesh-eating scourge thanks to the march of progress…
The Loneliest Planet begins with a close-up of a beautiful woman, naked and trembling. It’s not what it sounds like….
Gossip Girl and The O.C., Josh Schwartz’s teen TV shows, are sly bait-and-switches. Both are easily marketable for their hot…
When it comes to cost-cutting, downsizing, and philosophical and practical compromise, how low is it possible to go before there’s…
Set amid the 1979–80 Iran hostage crisis, Ben Affleck’s Argo is a “gritty” historical drama overwhelmed by its love of…
In this faux-found-footage horror anthology (containing material directed by Joe Swanberg, Adam Wingard, Ti West, and others), a crew of…
Film critic Karina Longworth is reporting from the Toronto International Film Festival this week.For maybe the first hour of Yellow…
Editor’s note: Village Voice media film critic Karina Longworth is currently at the Toronto Film Festival, from where se’ll be…
Marie Losier’s doc chronicles Psychic TV and Throbbing Gristle founder Genesis Breyer P-Orridge’s recent career and second marriage, both defined…
It’s hard to imagine an experimental Danish documentary siphoning off too much Best Actor attention. But make no mistake: In…
Newly separated, Celeste (Rashida Jones) is told by her un-flamboyant queer co-worker (Elijah Wood), “It’s time get your fuck on.”…
Robert Pattinson’s casting as Eric Packer, a 28-year-old finance prodigy ensconced in a stretch limo on a 24-hour odyssey across…
“My son is sick right now, covered in zits. It’s not contagious — I mean, it’s contagious, but don’t worry:…
The Campaign begins with an onscreen quote attributed to Ross Perot: “War has rules. Mud-wrestling has rules. Politics has no…
Vividly bringing to life the question Don DeLillo poses in Cosmopolis—whether self-denial is a social responsibility—Lauren Greenfield’s new documentary tracks…
Lucy (Mira Sorvino), a hot mess in a minidress and spike-heel boots, shows up in Manhattan, yappy little dog in…
An episodic ensemble piece based on cases handled by Paris’ Child Protection Unit, Polisse is a mutant beast: Imagine an…
Will (Ben Foster)—a lone-wolf American cartographer on contract to collect data on the ground to match to satellite maps in…
