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When it comes to learning any kind of skilled craft, the fastest route to mastery is learning from the masters themselves. “The way you want to learn is by...
You do not have to be a fan of country music to enjoy this!
The repeated upheavals of one man's life shown in a supernatural and transcendent way. One of the year's biggest cinematic achievements.
“A long time ago, we used to be friends…” The theme song to Veronica Mars the TV show may not open its first film counterpart, but it might as...
Indie Game: The Movie is a fascinating documentary about the obsession and dedication that goes into indie game making for which many make huge sacrifices in their lives for...
In 1980s East Germany, Barbara (Nina Hoss) is showing up to her first day of work at her new job. After applying to leave the country, the police have...
For all intents and purposes, Shane Carruth has completely disappeared off the filmmaking radar ever since his mind blowing indie sci-fi debut of Primer eight years ago. The only...
The unpredictable mechanics of evil have rarely been as captivating as they are in Alex Van Warmerdam’s Borgman. Premiering last year at Cannes, our very own Dustin Jansick saw...
In director Jem Cohen’s Museum Hours, a late-middle-aged Viennese museum patrolman and a Canadian tourist share a ruminative brief encounter, like an older, wiser, more meditative version of Sofia...
I’ll admit that the main reason I was interested in The East was due to it starring Ellen Page, though the story did also appeal to me. I had...
Tom Hooper’s The King Speech is a feel good film with an interesting but true story to go along with it. Not filled with many surprises but it will...
We Need to Talk About Kevin is haunting and chilling thriller that was based on a book by Lionel Shriver that rehashes the classic debate of nature-versus-nurture in an...
It does not take long to notice that even the smallest of details in Nacho Vigalondo’s Timecrimes are not without purpose. As with most time-travel films, if you were...
Jeff Nichols’ latest film is now finally hitting the theaters after nearly a full year since its warm receptive premiere at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. Mud centers on...
Following his recent announcement of a retirement from directing, it’s difficult to ascribe any thoughts to Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises without also finding the analogue between himself and...
When I saw that Drew Barrymore directed a film starring Ellen Page, I couldn't wait to see what they would accomplish together. After being a fan of Drew Barrymore...
Cloud Atlas is a big film by all definitions; it contains an inordinate amount of characters spread out across hundreds of years, making the shear scope of the production...
Las Acacias, which won the award for best first feature at Cannes in 2011, shows how powerful simplicity can be in a film. Director Pablo Giorgelli takes what sounds...
JR (Carlen Altman) just broke up with her boyfriend, a former college professor of hers before she dropped out of school. With no one to turn to, she calls...
A grey cloud follows every film featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman ever since his untimely death earlier this year (read our Favorite Philip Seymour Hoffman moments). Posthumously released films are...
There is nothing overly complicated about the French film Goodbye First Love, a story about a young woman who is torn between two men, one of which is her...
Faith and love tragically clash in Beyond the Hills, Cristian Mungiu’s latest film since his Palme D’Or-winning 4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days. Mungiu’s film opens with the...
American Promise is a terrific film about racial imbalance and family dynamics, whose immense 13-year production process (from 1999 to 2012) was lengthy by design; filmmakers Joe Brewster and...
Between viewing options like Godzilla and X-Men: Days of Future Past, which make up the usual beginning-of-Summer box-office listings, is the smaller scaled and incredibly satisfying Chef. Jon Favreau takes a...
What an extraordinary, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: Two actors are being paid to eat at the most lavish fine dining restaurants in Italy, tracing the Amalfi coast in a MINI Cooper and soaking...
Edet Belzberg provides a compelling and compassionate view of those who fight for the rights of humanity and the victims of genocide in her latest documentary.
Succeeds in capturing the male bond and its significance in manhood.
A visual spectacle that is further proof of Luca Bigazzi being one of the finest working cinematographers in the business.
A spirited tribute to a legendary singer so full of love she can't hold it in.
The Raid: Redemption could be seen as a slaughterhouse more than an action movie. Calling the plot and characters paper-thin would be an understatement, and the body count only...
A modern whodunit is immensely entertaining and surprisingly sweet.
In an early sequence in The Rocket, a Laos-set underdog fable by Australian filmmaker Kim Mordaunt, we see our 10-year-old hero Ahlo (Sitthiphon Disamoe, whose chin is perpetually tilted upward...
There’s an indelible spark that exists between actors who trust each other fully. Through 9 years of making millions pop with laughter together on Saturday Night Live, Kristen Wiig and Bill...
Pilots of the Arab-Israeli war tell their tale in this affecting documentary.
The loneliness of a small town and the effects of a guilt-ridden tragedy combine in this understated film.
An intense, vicious screed against political corruption aimed directly at the rotten heart of the Russian government.
A Holocaust survivor with a reconstructed face must confront the husband who may have handed her to the Nazis in this haunting postwar drama.
A corrupt cop gets his comeuppance in this deranged and devilishly funny thrill ride from South Korean director Kim Seong-hun.
A bleak, impressive directorial debut whose dreariness is matched with a haunting, poetic beauty.
Kaleidoscopic in a most humanitarian and intimate sense, Frederick Wiseman's 40th documentary is an observance of beauty in culture and everyday life.
