Tension becomes Caitlin Cronenberg’s film. The release of it, not so much.
Some very good actors speak in some very funny voices in Marilyn Hotchkiss’ Ballroom Dancing and Charm School.
With The Promise, a once-promising director continues down an ill-advised path toward mainstream mediocrity.
Géla Babluani delivers gimmicky thrills posing as hard-nosed neo-noir with 13 (Tzameti).
This year’s edition shouldn’t be shrugged off because there are no sure-things like Murderball and Junebug on the bill.
This is a brisk but one-note comedy that finds little to say about love except that it’s never as easy as it appears in melodramatic fiction.
Twelve and Holding comes off as something of a neo-con paranoid fantasy.
Make no mistake, there’s an epic scope to October 17, 1961.
A struggle emerges behind the camera that’s every bit as intense as the drama that pans out in front.
The Children Are Watching Us is a marvel of complex visual and emotional scope.
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.
Friends with Money is an understated comedy about money in a classless social setting.
By the time of the film’s condom-breaking scene, you’re meant to want the couple to graduate beyond their potentially one-night stand.
Matt Zoller Seitz’s Home is screening at this year’s RiverRun International Film Festival.
She’s the Man is a Twelfth Night for the ninth-grade set.
It’s little wonder that Alan Moore has officially disowned the movie version of his dystopian comic series V for Vendetta.
You must look past the directors’ guilt complexes to recognize the sweetly observed portrait of a Latino community ousting its undesirables.
An allegory in which the subtext out-bullhorns the text itself, this punk trend-hitching, teen actioneer skimps on little.
Among other things, Cassavetes hoped to offer young actors an alternative to the Method.
As its title implies, The Big Question investigates life’s most monumental spiritual issues.