A happy match of style and subject: Christopher Nolan’s genius for treating movies like chess matches — the careful, methodical combination and orchestration of events and characters to produce an inescapable conclusion — is brilliantly employed in this account of the British (and French) attempt to retreat across the English …
A happy match of style and subject: Christopher Nolan’s genius for treating movies like chess matches — the careful, methodical combination and orchestration of events and characters to produce an inescapable conclusion — is brilliantly employed in this account of the British (and French) attempt to retreat across the English …
Jackie Chan and Robert Redford narrate this family documentary that examines the power and beauty of the natural world.
Natalie Portman narrates this documentary about what shouldn't enter one's mouth.
Romantic comedy from Mexico. Telenovela, anyone?
Have reached a point in our history where Hollywood can get away with mollifying audiences for 96 minutes with a cast of glorified smiley faces? We're in a hell.
Official Selection for the New York Indian Film Festival.
Much of the viewer’s enjoyment of writer-director Dominic Savage’s tale of a desperate English housewife will depend on his or her sympathy for its outwardly comfortable, inwardly unsatisfied protagonist Tara (Gemma Arterton, her face a china-doll mask of misery). And much of that sympathy will depend on the degree of …
Michael Almereyda’s docu-biography never once attempts to fool the gullible into thinking the footage assembled is anything but fictive. In the mind of the film’s subject, Hampton Fancher, his life and his work are inseparable to the point one might just as easily speak on behalf of the other. Fancher …
A single gynecologist asks a coworker to pose as her date at a family wedding. Guess what? Her ex's name is also on the guest list! Hilarity presumable ensues in this romantic comedy from Mexican director Catalina Aguilar Mastretta.
Scholars and feminists have for years cried out for a humorless remake of Bubble Boy with an African-American female in the lead. At last their prayers have been answered.