"The Broken Circle Breakdown" sounds fairly enticing and interesting. But beware: the first half of the film is directed in the most conventional way, veering toward a Lifetime movie.
em>Historic footage"from newsreels, TV stations once-live coverage, from several investigating commissions- has been edited, brilliantly into a coherent, important political film.
This is one fine neo-noir, expertly directed by Ridley Scott with a host of superlative star turns from Michael Fassbender, Cameron Diaz, Javier Barden, Penélope Cruz, and Brad Pitt.
I Used to Be Darker is a movie of small pleasures, lots of them.
Mexico's Alfonso Cuarón is among the world's finest, most versatile filmmakers, and someone who"knock on wood!-- hasn't yet directed a dud. GRAVITY is quite OK too, but in the second tier…
Mother of George has garnered a rarer-than-rare 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating from critics. Sorry to be the cynical spoiler.
It's heartening to see a major Catholic institution like Boston College get behind a documentary that, without mercy, attacks the Boston Diocese for its sinful coverup of priest abuse of chi…
Director-writer Alexandre Moors, a Parisian living in New York City, builds a credible narrative story of the killer team in the months before their death spree.
Far From Vietnam dared say what no American documentary, even the most radical, would insinuate for fear of being accused of treason: in Vietnam, the Americans were the new Germans.
Oy gevalt! What a disappointment!
I guess that's the point. We all need to slow down, go back into nature, appreciate animal life, take long walks in the forest and in the mountains.
We've heard all these gripes before, in life, in books, on TV, and in piles of movies. But Kathryn Hahn, a newcomer to me, is so enthralling and right that Rachel's alienation, her poor litt…
"Terraferma" is well-meaning, properly on the side of human rights, but also schematic and thematically heavy-handed.
With a good critic like Peter Rainer, the opinion itself is the least interesting part of the review. It's the contextualizing of the opinion. And the choice of words on paper.
By Gerald Peary My understanding of Martin Scorsese is that, as a tiny-sized asthmatic boy, he had no qualifications for sports, and, furthermore, not an iota of interest. Raging Bull, his s…
Luis Buñuel would be proud of the scabrous scene in which the Davison clan sit down to supper and the civilized bourgeois meal turns to rot before our eyes.
The bubbling-over sexuality of Paul Schrader's The Canyons is surely tongue-in-cheek, amusing in its semen-splashed excessiveness.
"Into the Nightmare" is a great book, a monumental book, and an authoritative assimilation of forty years of what everyone, off and on the record, has argued about the Kennedy assassination,…
Critics have been more than kind to "Museum Hours," respectful of its sleepy intellectualism in a 2013 summer of brainless action flicks.
Does every semi-famous person deserve a full-length documentary about them?
The based-on-fact A Hijacking is a deft, intelligent, tense and exciting melodrama from Denmark about a Danish ship that is taken by Somali pirates.
Russian intellectuals privately grasp that they must seem like jackasses to the outside world with their primitive attitudes about homosexuality, aligning not with Western Europe but with Ni…
Even with its audience-unfriendly head games and confusions, "Post Tenebras Lux" is an imposing spiritual work, and totally original.
In Russia, the defenders of Nadia, Masha, and Katia have compared their plight to the victims of the infamous Stalinist "Show Trials" of the '30s.
The filmmaker is annoyingly passive and star-struck, as the documentary's subject, Ricky Jay, speaks to his chosen agenda: a wish to tell stories about his mentors and favorite magicians.