It’s likely that you’ll know well ahead of entering the theater whether or not Disney’s Million Dollar Arm is your kind of entertainment. The final product—a we...
Cyber-Seniors, a personal documentary directed, narrated and edited by Saffron Cassaday (who remains mostly off camera), opens with the explanation that the ins...
On their surfaces, Mike Leigh and J.M.W. Turner — the artist at the center of his latest film, Mr. Turner — couldn’t seem more like polar opposites. The 19th-ce...
Abderrahmane Sissako can no longer be called one of the greatest African directors of our time; he has become, simply, one of the greatest directors of our time...
No one can say I didn't do my due diligence, but I simply can't wrap my head around Dan Fogler and Michael Canzoniero's stoner-tinted, loose modernization of Do...
A tracking shot slowly moves around a blonde princess on a Hollywood set. We follow the applause as she leaves for the final time and into her dressing room, le...
Entertaining in moments, but not terribly progressive, Moms' Night Out presents an aspirational film that we rarely see in -- dare I say -- the “secular media,"...
Early on in Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return, our tornado-riding, dimension-hopping heroine realizes that the world she’s come back to is a very different, dimin...
With ballooning budgets, waning attention spans and constant pressure to deliver the best (or rather the most) CGI, Hollywood's contemporary crux on throwing ev...
In the opening shot of Gia Coppola’s feature-length debut, Palo Alto, the camera slowly zooms in from afar on a parked car where two teens, Teddy (Jack Kilmer) ...
