Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic is mot quite as raunchy as The Aristocrats, but it’s also twice as offensive. Good.
A fatalistic tale of identity, destiny, coincidence, existential malaise, and the boundaries between the real and the imagined.
Hou’s latest is a rumination on the symbiotic union between the past and present, the personal and the political.
Substitute The Devil’s Advocate’s satanic legal scheming with unethical sports gambling practices and you’ve got Two for the Money.
Without Jessica Alba’s bootylicious presence, the shallow Into the Blue would sink like a stone.
Through the Forest is a quixotic film of tone-poem rhythms about the unquenchable desire for lost love.
The Squid and the Whale dares not harshly judge its all-too-human characters.
Never Been Thawed is so convinced of its coolness that it even abbreviates its title to NBT.
Are films capable of humanizing murderers without also invariably asking audiences to have compassion for the perpetrators?
Avi Mograbi ’s documentary trades in irony with a capital I.
The film is a haunting companion piece to Hany Abu-Assad’s forthcoming Paradise Now.
Hou Hsiao-hsien is a master at conveying movement, progression, and a sense of the inexorable rotations of the wheel of time.
The type of ineffective third-rate con job that simply turns the volume way up for explosions in order to elicit an audience’s jolted reaction.
The film proves content to tread on familiar ground by recounting the waning days of the samurai class in isolationist 19th-century feudal Japan.
This nostalgic paean to ’70s-era youthfulness and the short-lived fad of roller disco coasts by on an amiable soul-funk groove.
If you have any sense, you’ll rent and savor Trash instead.
The dichotomy between Murrow and McCarthy is emblematic of Good Night, and Good Luck’s fixation on contrast.
The documentary powerfully conveys the method by which irrational blame-games fuel mass intolerance.
Paul Reiser is mad about Dad in The Thing About My Folks, an infuriatingly bad tale of father-son bonding.
Finally, a romantic comedy that addresses the Terry Schiavo debate!