“Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid,” wrote Raymond Chandler about his detectives. Major Noredin of the Cairo police is himself mean, and also tarnished and afraid, but down those streets he goes anyway, trying to do at …
Richard Gere gives what many are calling the performance of his career in this thriller from Joseph Cedar.
A young man travels to Alaska in search of his estranged father and meets a woman who — you'll never guess — is also visiting Alaska hoping to find her estranged mother. And they say stuff like this only happens in the movies.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nunnery? Full Metal Habit? Writer-director Margaret Betts takes a striking fact — the Catholic Church in America experienced a mass exodus of its women religious in the years following the Second Vatican Council — and uses it to craft a hysterical piece of fiction, shot …
At last, a Katherine Heigl film that might make some money.
Vanessa Gould’s documentary look at the obituary department of the New York Times in action is as deceptive in tone as it is perceptive in vision. A strange air of calm rumination pervades the account, even as we watch a group of consummate professionals go through their daily, panic-inducing routine …
A forlorn office worker (Shinobu Terajima) takes an English class (taught by Josh Hartnett) where role-playing proves to be the key to unlocking her titular second self. We open on an elevated platform where a man standing behind our heroine whispers a goodbye before jumping into the path of an …
High-tension CEO Tilda Swinton announces, during the bonkers opening scene set in her dead father’s infamous subterranean factory, the “discovery” of miracle superpigs and a decade-long contest to raise the most super pig of all. (Yes, their faces look more canine than porcine, but who wants to look a gift …