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Nowadays Toddlers & Tiaras and the like are mega successful TV shows that glamorize rather than exploit the modeling world, so it seems like great timing for a documentary...
Lee Daniels’ The Butler is a chronicling of the civil rights movement through the eyes and ears of a black butler in the White House, based on a real...
If you combined the provocative tenacity of Ulrich Seidl with the non-narrative structure and beautiful cinematography of Terrence Malick then you would get somewhere close to Carlos Reygadas’ baffling...
After writing credits for blockbuster titles such as Beyond Borders and The Island, Caspian Tredwell-Owen extends his talents beyond just writing and into directing with his debut of the...
If you are in your mid-twenties to mid-thirties there is a good chance that you have used the program Napster to download music files from the internet. Back in...
The story of Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki expedition is one so extraordinary it’s hard to believe it took this long to get dramatized. Heyerdahl (Pål Sverre Hagen), an...
Ben Lewin’s The Sessions collected attention at various film festivals throughout the year, under the film’s original name of The Surrogate. Because the film is based on a true...
Beginners is a semi-autobiographical film written and directed by Mike Mills about how to find love in relationships. It is also about how much ones upbringing influences their lives...
An awkward mix of gritty material and indie quirk goes down easier thanks to a fantastic lead performance by Lindsay Pulsipher.
Jolie's POW drama is too polite to its subject, preferring to emphasize nobility over the truth of misery and torture.
This entertaining and beautifully shot tale of loneliness and ribaldry at a military base makes for an unconventional debut.
This whimsical doc about the legendary comedy troupe's historical reunion only caters to existing fans.
A cute but redundantly lyrical sanitarium romance.
Holy Motors opens in a theater of unmoving bodies, an unseen film plays. A man wakes in a bed on a boat, uses the key he has in place...
Plympton's uncomfortably unnatural style creates beautiful set pieces in his mildly enjoyable new feature
Tame and derivative, Katz's familial dramedy is nevertheless an easy-breezy watch.
7 Boxes is a cat-and-mouse chase movie set in a seedy marketplace in the Paraguayan capital of Asunción, whose breakneck pace is its saving grace, for better or for worse....
The Dead Lands is a clichéd action film just packaged in a more interesting way, resulting in a moderately pleasurable film.
What’s surprising about On My Way, a latter-life crisis road trip film starring Catherine Deneuve, is that the film flounders and fumbles while the French living legend is alone at...
A solid studio comedy and star-vehicle for the ever-entertaining McCarthy.
East meets west and old action stars take on familiar roles in this indie action flick with Dolph Lundgren and Tony Jaa.
Good intentions don't translate to good filmmaking in this scatterbrained examination of drone warfare.
This cyberbullying whodunit asks relevant questions about the implications of our actions online.
I’m a horror aficionado. I have watched everything from Melie’s Le Manoir du Diable, Nosferatu, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and other early film depictions of the spectacular and creepy, to today’s...
Yves Saint Laurent changed the face of fashion on numerous occasions, innovating through design, expanding the horizons of the art form like few else in the 20th century. Alas,...
The search for the cure for aging is lead by two eccentric scientists.
Ivy Meeropol’s documentary offers some shocking revelations about nuclear power plant safety but often without detailed explanations.
The latest reflection on Steve Jobs' life seems overly eager to compensate for all the hero worship of past films on its subject.
Cold feet are the least of a bride's worries after she is bitten by a bug in this beautifully shot but unevenly told horror film.
Chop Shop will not likely be on top of your all-time favorite films but if you know what you are getting into, it’s more than your average troubled youth...
Baumbach's cross-generational comedy is at first a delight, but a sour third act ruins the fun.
Mob-movie clichés weigh down this otherwise compelling true-crime thriller.
A man carries out the wishes of his late wife, whose spirit has possessed their son, in this bleak Chinese drama.
Tough to recommend as a viewing experience, but as an experiment in cinematic mood placement this one fires on all cylinders.
Ten years ago Hollywood graced the world with their Tobey Maguire led rendition of Spider-Man which helped pave the way for a generation of super hero movies to litter...
While tales of the war zone that is online dating in our modern era are timely, the release date of the latest film to cover the subject, Two Night...
A pleasant, but unchallenging documentary about a man who left a life of privilege for a life of simplicity and virtue.
To write No Ordinary Hero off as a predictable and haphazardly constructed film would be a mistake, it does what it sets out to do: entertain a deeply underserved...
Unnecessary drama and emotional manipulation take away from Tig Notaro's inherently powerful life story.
Kieran Darcy-Smith makes his feature film debut with his Australian indie drama Wish You Were Here, which first premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. The film’s non-linear narrative...
