I never had the chance to attend New York City’s CBGB, “the birthplace of punk,” but if my first exposure to it were the film of the same name, I’m not sure I w...
It has been five years since the release of Jia Zhangke’s last feature-length fiction film, 24 City -- by far the longest gap between such features in his caree...
In the press notes for Ben Stiller’s The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, the following is written underneath the film’s title: “Walter Mitty: n. An ordinary person...
Runner Runner is one of those movies that plays like it was based off its own trailer. Maybe director Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer) and writing team Brian Ko...
Omar, the latest from Paradise Now helmer Hany Abu-Assad, is quick to establish its own take. Following several close calls on the Israeli side of the West Bank...
The parking lot, always glimpsed from the same perched, high-angle camera position, is the edge of society in Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger by the Lake. Men pull u...
The pacing is relentlessly silly at times, but all I could think while watching Witching and Bitching was how wild the experience was. Witness the opening seque...
During the first 20 minutes of Baggage Claim, it dawned on me: if you’re up for this movie, you’ll have a mostly good time. This is simple enough, until mid-fil...
To draw an easy comparison, Captain Phillips is this year’s Argo. Ben Affleck's Best Picture winner, though a highly suspenseful thriller, was also one in which...
What James Franco tries, valiantly, is the equivalent of attempting to novelize Ingmar Bergman’s Persona or Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless. The former is nigh imp...
