The film is a testament to the power of video to document resistance to corrupt and abusive regimes, but it’s also a witness to the limits of that power.
Joel Potrykus’s Buzzard is a study of a man who’s hard to like, harder to dismiss, and impossible to pigeonhole.
The long love scenes between Emma and Adèle have garnered a lot of attention in discussions of Blue Is the Warmest Color.
Marion Cotillard is an icon of suffering in James Gray’s somber passion play.
There’s no shortage of bastards in this tale about the destructive power of a deeply dysfunctional family.
Like its heroine, Abuse of Weakness wastes no time looking back.
Like the folk scene it immerses us in, Inside Llewyn Davis is intrigued by authenticity.
Film archivist Rick Prelinger puts a new spin on the word “interactive” with No More Road Trips?
Andrew Bujalski rejects the easy drama of the competition as a focus of Computer Chess.
Before Midnight, the latest film by hometown hero Richard Linklater, was one of the festival’s most anticipated features, and it didn’t disappoint.
It feeds the warrior fantasies of adolescent boys with a testosterone-heavy tale of a war free of moral complications.
Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín gives us another take on his country’s dark dance with military dictatorship in No.
Night Across the Street too often degenerates into long perorations or overworked metaphors.
Memories Look at Me is an unusually personal portrait of family life in China.
Antonio Méndez Esparza’s Here and There is as studiously unself-dramatizing as its subject.
Peter Nicks’s film does its part, illuminating the dignity and worth of its subjects.
Neil Berkeley’s Beauty Is Embarrassing is as puckish as its subject.
Most of us think we know a thing or two about the modeling business, regardless of whether our first thoughts are of bulimia or Bulgari.
Disney draws a big fat bullseye on the fast-growing infertile-couple demographic with this airless misfire.
The most creative periods for the movies seem to occur about every 30 years, usually triggered by the advent of some new technology.