The film understands the ways in which unspoken resentments tend to accumulate and unresolved conflicts later harden into regrets.
In Ice People, director Anne Aghion locates the banal amid the beautiful solitude of the Antarctic landscape.
The film is uninterested in developing one of these characters beyond a near-silent abstraction.
Still Walking is a family drama that gets the family dynamic exactly right.
Empty Nest more than repays our indulgence.
James Toback’s new film banks on the intrinsic fascination inspired by his central figure.
Lymelife loads its thin running time with enough content for a film twice its length.
Alien Trespass tries very hard to look like some discovered lost classic from 1957.
Majid Majidi’s lyrical, gently comic The Song of Sparrows grounds its low-key humor in the realities of poor, semi-rural Iranian life.
Talk is the order of the day in Emmanuel Mouret’s amusing enough trifle.
James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo’s Every Little Step turns on two perfectly-executed narrative strategies.
The Fly adds a new, if not particularly wished for, wrinkle to the man-reunited-with-long-lost-child template.
The legacy of sexualized violence is the chief generational inheritance in Claudia Llosa’s incisive, carefully observed Golden Bear-winner.
The film would seem calculated to serve up that least desired of cinematic offerings: a self-conscious, all-inclusive portrait of the Way We Live Now.
From “the studio that brought you the Academy Award-winning Life Is Beautiful” comes another Holocaust movie that you’re sure to love!
The filmmakers attempt to pack a miniseries’s worth of familial drama into an 85-minute running time.
There’s nothing in recent memory quite like Merde.
Examined Life attempts to reposition philosophical discourse as something not confined to the hallowed halls of academia.
Must Read After My Death has an ideal audience of no more than a dozen.
Memorial Day is little more than a pointless exercise in brutality.