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A wonderful, audacious film that challenges its audience, and serves as a brilliant debut for its lead actress and director.
With last year’s Before Midnight being clearly one of the best of 2013 (at least in our opinion), it would seem Richard Linklater, whose films can be somewhat hit...
Arabian Nights: Volume 2 - The Desolate One may just be the most haunting movement in Gomes' glorious, deeply melancholic, symphony.
I knew half way through the first part of the excellent film Carlos, that it would be the best film I would see in 2010. Carlos is at the...
Perfect performances and an excellently adapted script create a visceral emotional experience.
A lonely vampire girl preys on the bad men of her city in this atmospheric and near-perfect Iranian indie horror-western.
A gripping courtroom drama surrounding an Israeli woman's divorce.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a very complex Western that pits a traditional gun-slinging setting with a reformist mindset and the resulting tensions are intriguing and exciting....
All is Lost reveals the true essence of who Robert Redford is as an actor as much as any other film in his career, which spans over half a century....
If you, like millions of others, plan on heading into Dawn of the Planet of the Apes this weekend ready to gobble up yet another action-heavy summer mega movie, expect to get way more...
The Square captures the chaotic energy of the Egyptian mass protests of 2011 and 2013, a rush of sights and sounds shot at street level that blitzes the senses as...
A biting view of Amy Winehouse's talents and demise is both broad and personal and altogether stirring.
Based on the poem “Nirvana” by Charles Bukowski this indie directed by Patrick Biesemans captures each feeling and sentiment from every line of the poem. The beautiful visuals and...
With the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement’s march on Washington having just passed, and with the historically deplorable Columbus Day holiday upcoming, we can’t be reminded enough...
Acclaimed Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul's latest film is a mystifying and wondrous experience.
Thinking-man's sci-fi never looked so slick.
Rose McGowan’s debut short film, Dawn, is a surprisingly original and well-executed revision of a 1950’s teenage romance gone terribly awry. The film opens with our quiet protagonist Dawn...
It's hard to imagine Leigh, Spall, and their team improving upon what they put forth in this transcendental masterpiece.
The perfect vehicle for Lily Tomlin to prove her comedic prowess and how it's only improved with age.
About Elly is truly a cinematic experience to savior.
Jonathan Glazer’s otherworldly Under the Skin feels somehow…forbidden. Hyper-artistic movies like this are a rare species, unwelcome in the tentpole Hollywood landscape. And yet, at the center of the film is one...
Oslo, August 31st is magnificent. A film that succeeds on many levels. It is brilliantly made by its director Joachim Trier and brilliantly acted by his actors. I honestly...
Directed by Richard Linklater and co-wrote by Richard Linklater and Skip Hollandsworth, Bernie was recently nominated for best feature of the Independent Spirit Awards. I had intended to watch...
A complex, towering portrait of two men raging against lawless terror and the imposing system they are trapped within.
Sustaining an extreme level of tension the whole way through, Mitchell's teen horror opus is one of the best of its kind.
An electric newsroom drama sporting a stunning ensemble.
For lovers of intelligent suspense and sickly dark humor, Faults is home.
Ulrich Seidl packs a punch full of irony in Paradise: Love where neither paradise nor love is anywhere to be found. On display instead is a voyeuristic view of...
If you’re familiar with Dan Stevens, it’s probably with his work on Downton Abbey as the kind-hearted English gentleman Matthew Crawley. Other than that, his career is largely a blank slate, with most of us...
A dark, wicked comedy about a man unable to get rid of his dead girlfriend.
A phantasmagorical epic so wild, so mad, so hilarious, it must be seen to be believed.
Hirokazu Koreeda’s Like Father, Like Son turned a lot of heads in theater at the Cannes Film Festival today, where it played in front of a teary eyed audience....
After the great success of the eminently popular Juno and Little Miss Sunshine, there was a deluge of similarly suburban, witty comedies that followed. These indie dramedies, while often...
A feature debut from Jordan Scott (daughter of Ridley) who wrote and directed Cracks – a story that starts off innocent but eventually unravels to show a dark psychological...
Why on earth would this post-modern feminist put a crass, self-referential, bro-mantic apocalypse film in her top 5 of the year (thus far)? Because Seth Rogen and super side-kick...
Welsh-born filmmaker Gareth Evans’ The Raid: Redemtion shook up the martial arts movie genre in 2011 with its exhilarating action, scintillating fight choreography, and no-holds-barred brutality. The film didn’t have...
Jeff Who Lives at Home is the forth feature film by the Duplass brothers, who were part responsible for the “mumblecore” movement with their first film The Puffy Chair....
Back in 2005 the talented Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar made a film called Bad Education, which contains a film within a film and a story within a story based...
Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles created possibly the most compelling foreign crime drama to date with City of God. It is based on actual events of the life of Wilson...
Erik Peter Carlson’s début feature Transatlantic Coffee was a visually stimulating observation of one man’s story of isolation from society and his overwhelming desire to be loved. With The...
