Signal the thunderclaps: Stephen Sondheim turned 80 this year, and everyone is partyin’ like it’s 1999 for the man.
Evoking a Baz Luhrmann musical by way of 1950s communist Russia, Hipsters stirred up lots of buzz at the festival.
What’s most thrilling about Two Escobars is the filmmakers’ nonjudgmental approach.
Little more than an ethnographic sketch, American Mystic supplies slender snapshots of three Americans practicing alternative religions.
For every bit of evocative audio/video collision, there’s too much here that’s willfully obscure.
In a world ridden with hypocrisy, Gentelev’s film refreshingly exposes the respect-worthy honesty of Russia’s state-sanctioned thieves.
In Lola’s downtrodden Manila setting, everything revolves around money.
Red Beard has a Dickensian faith in regular working people.
Nowhere Boy is an unusually accomplished first feature by female British artist Sam Taylor Wood.
In the first two chapters the Palestinians yell at each other. In the third chapter the Israelis yell at each other.
Welcome to the first of a series of weekly recaps for the latest season of Doctor Who, now being broadcast on Saturday nights by BBC America.
Lucy Walker’s documentary is alternately gratifying and heart-wrenching.
Seltzer Works strikes a peculiar but uplifting note within a recession.
Perhaps you should not go into any new movie at a documentary film festival with expectations.
Anna Rodgers’s feature-length documentary debut follows two 11-year-old cousins facing very different journeys.
The Cannes Film Festival runs from May 11 to 23.
Burning Inside will surely find a loyal cult audience willing to tap into its rigorous midnight-movie sensibility.
This episode was worth my time, I’ll tell you what.
Notes on the Other features one of the more ingenious and thrilling cinematic moments at this year’s Full Frame.
Jacques Demy is a raconteur of fairy tales who keenly understands the heart’s follies.