Based on the true story of Sam Childers—ex-con, druggie, gun nut, and self-described “hillbilly from Pennsylvania” who got right with…
What I don’t know: why these movies keep getting made. Based on Allison Pearson’s 2002 comic bestseller, directed by Douglas…
Set in Tehran but filmed mainly in Beirut, Maryam Keshavarz’s earnest, well- intentioned first feature on women’s oppression in Iran…
Inspired by a 2008 New York Times Magazine article by Alex Kotlowitz, Steve James’ commanding documentary about “violence interrupters” in…
Adapted from Muriel Barbery’s international best seller The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Mona Achache’s first film follows two parallel story…
Vera Farmiga’s directorial debut, in which the actress plays Corinne, a woman who chafes against the restrictions of her evangelical…
“AIDS” isn’t uttered until well past the halfway mark of Oliver Schmitz’s problematic South Africa–set tale about the fear, gossip,…
No one grieves onscreen quite like Charlotte Gainsbourg, here playing Dawn, made a widow within the first 10 minutes of…
Nothing screams “French crossover comedy” like jokes about Auschwitz and childhood sexual abuse, the main rib-ticklers of Michel Leclerc’s blood-clot-inducing…
Exposing a little-known piece of Holocaust history—the Vel’ d’Hiv roundup, in which French police arrested thousands of Jews in Paris…
Pitched to tug at even Arizona governor Jan Brewer’s heartstrings, A Better Life takes on the combustible topic of illegal…
In his fourth film as director (and his first documentary, billed as a “musical adventure”), John Turturro plays an amateur…
Like Joan Braderman’s 2009 doc The Heretics, Lynn Hershman Leeson’s lionizing chronicle of the birth, in the late ’60s, and…
“Your country is the worst shit pile I have ever seen,” César (Hoji Fortuna), an Angolan crime boss, tells a…
What makes Johann run—and rob? Benjamin Heisenberg’s second feature is as taut, lean, and fleet as its title character, played…
As in his equally exceptional previous film, Secret Sunshine (2007), Lee Chang-dong’s Poetry is a perfectly paced and performed character…
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s first film since he split from screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, with whom he created the fractured, parceled-out, time-toggling—and…
Stare long enough at Borneo native Nénette, a 41-year-old orangutan who’s lived at the zoo in Paris’ Jardin des Plantes…
Wimmin power retrofitted as holiday heart-stirrer, Made in Dagenham recounts the real-life 1968 strike for equal pay by the 187…
It’s taken almost two years for the bonkers, exhilarating same-sex romantic comedy I Love You Phillip Morris to finally reach…
