drama
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Third Person
The sheer ambition on display in Third Person, from Crash writer-director Paul Haggis, is staggering and admirable without question. It’s...
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Nothing Bad Can Happen
In Nothing Bad Can Happen, a “provocative” film without anything truly provoking, Tore (Julius Feldmeier) is a homeless...
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Paul Haggis on ‘Third Person’, Unstoppable Love (Part 1)
Writer-director Paul Haggis (Crash, In the Valley of Elah) spoke with us in San Francisco about his new film, Third...
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Snowpiercer
It's hard to watch Snowpiercer without thinking about the last several months of controversy surrounding it. The film,...
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Happy Christmas
No one makes indie improvisational comedies fixated on placid relationship observations better than Joe Swanberg. He spent his...
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A Coffee in Berlin
Like a lost relic from the French New Wave, A Coffee in Berlin dazzles with its melancholic black-and-white imagery and...
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Norte, the End of History
First thing’s first: Lav Diaz’s epic Norte, the End of History is 250 minutes in length, a relatively...
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Miss Lovely
At its debut at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, Ashim Ahluwalia’s chameleonic Miss Lovely was declared a new...
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David Zellner on Blurred Reality, ‘Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter’
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter follows a driven Japanese office assistant (Rinko Kikuchi) who, believing a buried treasure from...
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Heli
From the start, Heli establishes the brutality and transparency of its setting. Opening with two men lying in...
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The Fault in Our Stars
Based on the wildly popular John Greene novel, The Fault in Our Stars, directed by Josh Boone, has a...
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A Picture of You
A Picture of You is a sharp, mischievous family drama from filmmaker J.P. Chan, who wrote, directed, and...
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Chris Mason Johnson On ‘Test’, The Camera as a Moving Body
A multi-layered character portrait set in 1985 San Francisco in the early days of the AIDS panic, Test follows Frankie (Scott...
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Anthony Chen Talks ‘Ilo Ilo’, Protecting His Humility
Singaporean director Anthony Chen is riding quite the wave of success with his feature debut, Ilo Ilo. The film...
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Some Velvet Morning
Considering Neil LaBute has a theatrical background as a former playwright, it’s no surprise that Some Velvet Morning feels like...