Agora is an odd duck, a cautionary tale for our fundamentalist times disguised as a swords-and-sandal epic.
Kites plays like a Douglas Sirk melodrama interpreted by Sergio Leone and with a score by Enya.
What woman wouldn’t love to be part of a posse for life who can be counted on to run to her side whenever she needs them?
Self-controlled but suffused with feeling, The Father of My Children is a grownup love letter to life.
George A. Romero’s zombie movies have been doing something quietly subversive for a while.
The newly restored print of Fritz Lang’s gorgeous, disturbing, and sometimes absurd silent masterpiece is a revelation.
It’s getting harder for fictional characters to do something so outrageous that we can’t empathize with them.
Is Jessica Oreck, the writer-director of Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo, trying to make a point about how modern life has alienated us from nature?
Micmacs is not in the subtlety business.
The business was started when Al Mayles and his wife, Gillian, moved from the Upper West Side to Harlem five years ago.
Who could resist that? I thought. Well, apparently the answer is: me.
The film is laced through with enough wit and grit to keep its unabashed sentiment from getting gooey.
Watching these thoroughbreds go through their paces is enough to make this movie worth seeing.
What resonates most is the political context in which the filmmakers situate this twist on a father-son melodrama.
The film was shockingly new when it was released in 1960.
Throughout, the filmmakers find inventive ways to tell us just enough about the main characters’ backgrounds.
Iron Man 2 is a a pretty chewy comic-book movie, but it never feels self-important or dense.
Check in for the next hundred days and see what you think of the movies I’m watching.
The films and videos shown at Orphans, all shorts or excerpts, don’t always last as long as the talks that precede them.
Like Jodie Foster, Dakota Fanning has been the real deal from the time she was a kid.