drama
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Afternoon Delight
As Juno Temple (Killer Joe)—playing a glitter-sweating stripper named McKenna—grinds and gyrates on Kathryn Hahn (Parks & Recreation)...
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Instructions Not Included
In Instructions Not Included‘s most heartwarming, gleeful moments, a father and his 6-year-old daughter (wearing matching, brightly colored...
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Short Term 12
It’s become fashionable over the past few months to shower Destin Cretton’s (I’m Not a Hipster) social worker...
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The Patience Stone
Like an intoxicating, slow-moving swirl of deep colors and even deeper emotions, Afghani filmmaker and novelist Atiq Rahimi’s...
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Thérèse
Premiering as the Closing Night film at the Cannes film festival last year was Claude Miller’s final film...
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Lovelace
Co-directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman bring the story of Linda Lovelace, a celebrity in the adult entertainment...
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Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
There’s no way around it. David Lowery’s darkly romantic Texas tale, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (love the title), starring...
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Prince Avalanche
The claims that David Gordon Green is going back to his older days, where films like George Washington...
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Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Lee Daniels’ The Butler is a chronicling of the civil rights movement through the eyes and ears of...
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The Past
For many (myself included), the work of Iranian director Asghar Farhadi was relatively unfamiliar before a little film...
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Jobs
The first of what will surely be an unending wave of Steve Jobs films (Aaron Sorkin is hard...
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Out in the Dark (SFJFF Review)
A raw and sensuous tale of forbidden love across a cavernous sociopolitical divide (the Israeli-Palestinian divide, to be...
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The Attack (SFJFF Review)
Though set in the trenches of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Ziad Doueiri’s mystery-thriller The Attack operates predominantly on an...
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The End of Love
Mark Webber’s sophomore effort as a director, The End of Love, follows a jobless single-father who is struggling...
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The Cutoff Man (SFJFF Review)
Set in a sun-toasted Israel, first-timer Idan Hubel’s The Cutoff Man is a patiently reflective tale of an...