The first two-thirds or so of Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia -- his first film since 2008's Three Monkeys, which earned him a Best Directo...
The most striking emotion you experience watching Tahrir, the cinéma vérité-styled documentary directed and filmed by Stefano Savona, is joy. And not just w...
Whether it takes place in 1984 or 2011, the Footloose premise will never be plausible. No matter how small the place, I can’t wrap my head around a town cou...
If one would only view the first 15 minutes of Machine Gun Preacher, they would probably figure they're about to endure a sappy Lifetime movie; for good rea...
In its 49th year, the New York Film Festival boasts a wide-array of striking and rightfully heralded cinema, including several foreign-language Oscar hopefuls. ...
Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret feels both incomplete and uncut. What lives on the screen arrives like the bullet points of a much larger, much grander, impossi...
Jonathan Levine's 50/50 has all of the makings of a heartstring-tugging melodrama. That it ends up being a better-than-average blend of comedy and drama -- ...
From the opening frame Wetlands commands our attention. A naked, Marie (Pascale Bussières) walks through an open field and down to the wetlands, in the bliste...
A Letter to Momo, director Hiroyuki Okiura’s (Jin-Roh) second feature, is a hand-drawn animation that took seven years to make. Carefully animated, it gorg...
