Recording the anthem “Les Filles du Crazy,” half a dozen women—performers at the Crazy Horse, Paris’ classy nudie cabaret—sing of…
More delightful than Procatinator and a greater tribute to the power of print journalism than Page One: Inside the New…
With a name that not even the PR team at Smokefree America could dream up, Victor DeNoble emerges as the…
A brisk, fascinating chronicle of a pre–Carla Bruni Nicolas Sarkozy that time-shifts from May 6, 2007—the day he was both…
Fulfilling a mission that has consumed her for almost two decades, Glenn Close—as producer, co-writer, and lead—brings to the screen…
That this film was originally titled Goethe! should give you a sense of how much silly Sturm und Drang boosterism…
The first 10 minutes of Dee Rees’ funny, moving, nuanced, and impeccably acted first feature, in which coming of age…
A sensitive portrait of childhood just before pubescence, Tomboy, the second film by writer/director Céline Sciamma, astutely explores the freedom…
An undeniably charming homage to Hollywood in the late 1920s, The Artist will probably be the most successful silent movie…
Tyrannosaur opens with a dog being kicked to death by its master, Joseph (Peter Mullan), a Leeds widower curdled by…
Frustratingly opaque, Julia Leigh’s debut feature opens with an unforgettable image: A young woman, earning some cash as a medical-research…
Desperately trying to appeal to not just the Gen-Xers who grew up with Kermit but also the tykes who’ve never…
In his first feature, writer/director Sam Levinson (son of Barry) turns to screeching family dysfunction for inspiration; the end result…
Constance Marks’ documentary on Kevin Clash, the kind, gentle man who created the Muppet beloved by every single child in…
A butch Dorothy Parker with flashes of Wildean rhetorical flourish, Fran Lebowitz, the subject of this tonic portrait that first…
Ethan Brand (Alessandro Nivola), front man for a small-venue alt-rock band about to splinter thanks to his drunken tantrums, is…
Sure to be drowned out by the drum circles at Occupy Wall Street, writer/director J.C. Chandor’s lifeless Margin Call depicts…
A feeble teenage-outcast movie set in 1987, Dirty Girl exists primarily as a vehicle for first-time writer/director Abe Sylvia’s favorite…
Standing outside his small-town Ohio home, Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) looks up at the ominous, slate-gray sky. The clouds open,…
A home-invasion movie as instantly forgettable as its title, Trespass is not without disturbing images: namely, Nicolas Cage and Nicole…
