Tracks Opens Fri., Oct. 3 at Sundance. Rated PG-13. 102 minutes. Mia Wasikowska’s face, body language, and vocal delivery are…
The Great Man school of biography is alive—if not particularly well—in The Liberator. A quick glimpse of unloving parents, a…
Kelly is a onetime ’90s riot grrrl, now a domesticated new mom and prisoner of suburbia. Who better to play…
Most of My Old Lady is set in the kind of apartment you have dreams about after eating Camembert late…
The best thing about Life of Crime is the cast, a lively combination of character types, scene-stealers, and one slumming…
Whatever Adam Wingard is drinking, please keep ’em coming. The director’s most recent two features are uneven but brimming with…
A suicide attempt, hauntingly staged: Eleanor (Jessica Chastain) walks across a New York City bridge on a pleasant day, and…
Of the titles from Hollywood’s golden age that aren’t broadly recognized as classics but really ought to be, Make Way…
In the opening scene of Jealousy, a relationship comes to an end. Shaggy-haired actor Louis (Louis Garrel) is leaving his…
The easiest knock against The Drop is that it operates in an overexposed milieu: current urban American crime. It’s hard…
The Belgian writer/director team Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani are obsessed with the 1970s Italian horror subgenre known as giallo….
Goblins are disconcerting, even if their worst offense (in this case) is stealing food. For an 11-year-old girl named Momo,…
The website for The Identicalhas more endorsements from pastors than movie critics—this is not one of those evangelical pictures trying…
Here we are in Berlin and Belgrade and Lausanne, and there’s Pierce Brosnan running through the streets. We have Russians,…
Ordinarily, one might expect that a total absence of dialogue would be the most distinctive element of a movie made…
Irene is keen at finding flaws and reluctant to commit to permanence. In that sense, her job couldn’t be more…
It is reassuring to know that even after the zombie plague begins in earnest, a strong vein of Jewish humor…
Young couples in movies are customarily given obstacles to overcome, but If I Stay seems unnecessarily cruel in its dramatic…
Everything you always suspected about music is true. Scientists can point to the parts of the brain that music stimulates,…
Is the story of The Kill Team singular? That’s the unspoken question that hangs over this award-winning documentary, another artifact…