In admitting that “Master” Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman, offering a new twist on the roiling vulnerability Anderson has always…
Slick and grown-up as Richard Gere himself, this intricate fiscal thriller takes a dead bead on extreme privilege, with Gere’s…
The method-y, elfin brooder-hipster star of the moment, Paul Dano has four movies out this year, but here is his…
A paradigmatic “portrait” documentary—the popular sort that eschews cultural information and risk to focus on “how it feels” to be…
The Bourne films have more than just overstayed their welcome and outlasted the Ludlum books—they’ve been Van Halenized, with an…
This deft, atmospheric Errol Morris–style tour through the phenomenon that is “serial imposter” Frédéric Bourdin homes in on one brief…
The transformation might be complete: The crap-and-gore, genre-mincing Tasmanian devil of Asian pulp psychosis, Takashi Miike, whom we’ve come to…
The first film from émigré director Pawel Pawlikowski since 2004’s dreamy My Summer of Love, this thoroughly odd and brooding…
This documentary opens with a photomontage of Japanese-Americans in the late ’30s and early ’40s, just before the outbreak of…
Arguably the strangest of the many recent Scandinavian movies to rifle through modern American-indie tropes and then cash in by…
An inspirational sports tearjerker in distilled form, this new Harvey Weinstein–hawked doc lands in North Memphis, where the underfunded, all-black…
Holocaust culture has proven to be essentially infinite—almost 70 years after the end of World War II, untold stories of…
A mellow doc that seems all set to cash in on the “spirituality” market, Jennifer Fox’s new film was actually…
Imagine the early, hellaciously bleak work of Cormac McCarthy transposed to the corrupt outlands of modern Russia and/or Ukraine and…
“A self-portrait through others,” as it’s subtitled, this conversational hall of mirrors never takes its microscope off the 65-year-old actress…
This year’s “sweeping” post-post-Fifth-Gen Chinese epic, Empire of Silver is filthy with luxuriant clichés, from sun-roasted Gobi landscapes to turn-of-the-century…
A remake of the far more brisk 2007 Israeli film with a bullpen of aging stars, this rather old-fashioned espionage…
A Spanish Blair Witch DIY-er with a nutsy, preemptive title, this trifle scoots and skitters along guilelessly, as if the…
The pan-genre über-hack of the new Korean zeitgeist, Kim Jee-woon has been deft in some arenas: 2003’s A Tale of…
Chile’s self-appointed, one-man Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Patricio Guzmán has devoted the past four decades to chronicling the short-lived Allende…
“The film they don’t want you to see,” by “Anonymous,” shouts the teaser, prefaced by warnings of legal threats and…
Rejiggering the history of postwar Germany into a Shel Silverstein–ish fairy tale about bunnies, Bartek Konopka’s quasi-doc spins the unlikely…
Happily sampling nasty beats and riffs from the Scorsese catalog, this new Aussie crime saga begins with a hushed but…
