A Mother’s Courage: Talking Back to Autism is a relatively benign probe into what is steadily becoming our species’ most alarming epidemic.
100 Voices excavates a portrait of Jewish music during the 1910s and ’20s.
In season six, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia continues to hit its tsk-tsk-inducing stride.
Josh Fox’s ungraceful and occasionally self-aggrandizing approach prevents our agitation from spilling over into fisted-citizen outrage.
The film learns to manage its musicality by perceiving the MOF hopefuls as an awkward yet profoundly sympathetic community.
Director John Scheinfeld’s bio-doc is both a psycho-analytical appreciation and an oral history.
One can discern an unobstructed path of influence and heritage from the heyday of U.S. multi-cam TV comedy up to The Norm Show.
Ahead of Time hardly inspires one to scour Amazon for the subject’s output.
A film that meditates upon post-9/11 psychology without an urgent sense of purpose is dishonorable.
The Euro-cultural tradition of canonizing Nazi resisters has met few candidates as challenging as Max Manus.
The film is a salvo of social disgust filled uneasily with self-deprecating doubt.
Whatever the narrow demographic merits of Endless Summer, its gonzo approach is still memorable.
Altiplano hypnotically braids strands of Incan mythology, Catholic voodoo, and campesino outrage.
The theme of male apprehension either transcended or succumbed to, but always deconstructed, is at the jazzily dendritic core of the “Moral Tales.”
The entirety of Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin reeks of a newfound arrogance that lifts this Beach Boys aficionado’s spirits.
Zwigoff completists can finally sigh with relief, fans of old-time string bands can leap for joy, and abecedarians can learn that U is for Uterus.
La Soga carries us through a uniquely unfamiliar interpretation of crime-world hierarchy with a fatally dampening vendetta plot.
Even Tod Browning’s Freaks may have been more humanistically sympathetic to its cast.
The film is uncomfortably ensconced in the very old-school crime-family tropes its social message intends to undermine.
Intermittent perspicacity isn’t enough to redeem the indie genre fealty of The New Year.