After canvassing the getting of manly wisdom in The 40-Year-Old Virgin and childbirth in Knocked Up, Judd Apatow brings the…
There’s not much to this thin, sun-drenched concoction about a straight-arrow Paris lawyer (Fabrice Luchini) who descends on the titular…
Don’t let the PG rating fool you: The dark arts are back with a vengeance in Harry Potter and the…
An unpretentious and old-fashioned (that is, crisply legible) domestic drama, Kabei shows how Rising Sun Japan’s sense of national destiny…
Atom Egoyan’s 12th feature film offers a typically kaleidoscopic rumination on voyeurism, videography, the relative nature of truth, and the…
The premise of this gentle existential farce from Norwegian director Bent Hamer is little more than an excuse for a…
The first original screenplay by hipster lit-world phenom Dave Eggers is, much like his 2001 memoir A Heartbreaking Work of…
Substitute “career” for “life” in the title of this stillborn travelogue comedy, and you’ll have a succinct verdict on My…
Director Kirby Dick doesn’t actually stick his camera under any Capitol Hill bathroom stalls in this new documentary, but his…
Director James Toback’s documentary about former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson isn’t a traditional nonfiction portrait so much as a…
There’s nothing new under the suburban sun (save for infectious ticks) in Derick Martini’s Lymelife, whose weighty allegorical title and…
Further confirmation of China’s Jia Zhangke as the planet’s most excitingly original filmmaker, this latest message-in-a-bottle from the front lines…
The fact that chaste, metrosexual teen idol Zac Efron has been allowed to grow a phallus for his latest role—a…
Before setting pen to paper, Sin Nombre writer-director Cary Joji Fukunaga purportedly rode the rails in the company of real…
Produced for what was likely a day’s Botox budget on Baz Luhrmann’s Australia, this auspicious Oz import—the debut feature of…
Drawn from Superbad director Greg Mottola’s own experiences working at a ramshackle suburban amusement park in the 1980s, Adventureland feels…
Like a bottled message cast from the shores of an economy whose implosion precipitated our own, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tokyo Sonata…
It’s little surprise that for his second film as director, Michael Clayton director Tony Gilroy leans heavily on his favored…
Haven’t we been here before? The inbred mutant offspring of Crash and Babel, writer-director Wayne Kramer’s Crossing Over treats the…
Tom Tykwer’s The International is one of those movies in which shadowy men meet in parked cars, abandoned buildings, and…
