Laura Poitras’s My Country, My Country deftly elucidates the importance of creating an appearance of legitimacy.
It chooses an undemanding route to condemnation, bypassing consequential nuance and rationality in censuring Bible Belt zealots for their cruel, selfish hypocrisies.
She’s the Man is a Twelfth Night for the ninth-grade set.
As its title implies, The Big Question investigates life’s most monumental spiritual issues.
On Tuesday, when hipsters all over Brooklyn are buying copies of the film, will Armond White leave his house?
It forms an interconnected web of loneliness, regret, and longing for happier times gone by.
Pernille Fischer Christensen joylessly scrubs Soap clean of sudsy silliness until all that remains is von Trier-ian starkness.
Ramin Bahrani casts nearly every scene as a disingenuous, pedantic example of the cosmos’s callous cruelty.
In terms of pure hyperspeed velocity, even breakneck turntable maestro Mix Master Mike has nothing on Awesome; I Fuckin’ Shot That!.
Wild Tigers I Have Known self-consciously attempts to stake its claim to a tract of the queer cinema landscape.
Ryan Fleck’s carefully observed Half Nelson doesn’t overcome its origins as a padded-out expansion of the filmmaker’s 2002 short Gowanus, Brooklyn.
Oy vey. The film gives Jews an insufferable holiday family comedy to call their own.
One of the best-looking films of 2005 doesn’t exactly get the red-carpet treatment from Warner Home Video.
PETA members may take to The Shaggy Dog.
Scripted by renowned novelist and playwright Don DeLillo, Game 6 might have been right at home on the page or in a Broadway theater.
Varun Khanna’s Beyond Honor sheds a harsh light on the still-thriving practice of female genital mutilation.
I Am a Sex Addict is Caveh Zahedi’s egomaniacal confession about his obsession with sex workers.
Ultraviolet is nice to gaze at but otherwise simplistic, senseless, and eminently skippable.
The film is more exciting than expected and yet not nearly as gripping as it could have been.
American Gun is a wall-to-wall spectacle of grating hysterics and solemn symbolism.