Of all the talents you read about during this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Bradford Young might not be among the most instantly recognizable names -- but ...
With an upcoming slate that’s already rather stocked with ambitious-sounding projects -- particularly the Gong Li-starring Marco Polo film -- you’d think Ta...
For a poorly-reviewed box-office flop, The Lone Ranger has remained a steady point of conversation since its early-July domestic release, largely because th...
Belgian writer-director Joachim Lafosse, in dramatizing the horrific real-life story of Genevieve Lhermitte, makes a profoundly important decision by beginning ...
“Paul Schrader’s Los Angeles has changed,” writes Nick Newman in our review of The Canyons, the aforementioned helmer's first film since 2008’s Adam Resurre...
Off the Black, James Ponsoldt's feature debut as a writer-director, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006, when Ponsoldt was nearing his thirties....
For a movie about beautiful people living in beautiful homes in a beautiful neighborhood, Ang Lee's The Ice Storm is oppressively cold and eerie. Released i...
Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine begins with a cross-country plane ride: Jasmine (Cate Blanchett), the former wife of a Manhattan investment player (Alec Baldwin), is...
Killing Season is Redbox-level trash that gives two storied American actors—Robert De Niro, 69, and John Travolta, 59—their first-ever opportunity to share a mo...
Gao Qunshu's Beijing Blues doesn't want for interesting ingredients: the targets of the film's police-officer protagonist are petty, low-level thieves and hustl...