The missed rendezvous: such a potent storytelling device, such a tantalizing chance to imagine what might have been if only…
Until the female lead is revealed to be a grossly mutating shapeshifter who devours animals in order to keep her…
One measure of a good horror movie is not how often you jump when the monster bangs out from behind…
For people of a certain age, these names may act as a time machine back to the 1970s: The Amazing…
The opening sequence of Wild Tales sets up a Twilight Zone-style series of revelations, compressed into just a few minutes….
In the geek-show school of documentary, strange pockets of humanity are uncovered so we can laugh at the foibles of…
Last year brought a lot of chatter about cinema’s obligations to historical accuracy. Did Selma distort Lyndon Johnson’s role in…
As a Western shot by a Danish crew in South Africa, The Salvation already has a hodgepodge air about it….
Funny and bizarre enough to attract a cult following, Buzzard is also off-putting enough to keep its micro-indie cred. I…
It didn’t cop the Oscar on Sunday, but the good news is a few hundred million people have now heard…
If you are already a fan of Samuel Fuller’s uncompromising pulp cinema, you’ll be delighted by this new documentary tour…
Perhaps it is hard to be a god, according to the title of this sprawling Russian epic. But everybody else…
There’s no parallel between the American film Boyhood and the French film Bande de Filles, except that a clever marketer…
R100 actually seems like a normal movie for 40 minutes or so, even if its setup is a little out-there….
Every outsider who takes Buddhism seriously enough to become a monk must have an interesting story. I once spent a…
No shocker that Leviathan is one of this year’s Oscar nominees for Best Foreign Language Film. The movie is ambitious…
The law of averages tells us there must be years in which cheerful, silly efforts are nominated in the best…
Some movies want to wear you down—an approach that seems logical for, say, a World War II tank picture like…
Tough call if you’re a movie marketer: Do you sell The Duke of Burgundy as a story of a professor…
Movies about moviemaking don’t come much drier than this new one from Romania. It has the usual elements of backstage…
