After earning much acclaim for her noir-tinged drama Winter's Bone, which served as a break-out for Jennifer Lawrence, Debra Granik is finally back with her...
A regular at the Cannes Film Festival, Marion Cotillard opened the ceremonies last year with Arnaud Desplechin's excellent Ismael's Ghosts, and now she's ba...
The most powerful experience I've had at a theater this year is during Jennifer Fox's The Tale at Sundance, but it won't be the way the majority of viewers ...
Difficult though it can be to parse through Hong Sang-soo's oeuvre -- an onslaught of projects that continued with the recent premiere of Grass and is likel...
On the film festival circuit last fall, Jessica Chastain brought two films, but in order to not distract from the awards ambitions of Molly's Game, the othe...
With the Cannes Film Festival line-up now completely locked down, including all sidebars, it's only a few weeks to go until things kick off, and perhaps our...
Going into Sundance Film Festival this year, we knew there was bound to be a handful of movies depicting police brutality and the state of race relations in...
A week before Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey gets a 50th anniversary theatrical release, featuring an unrestored 70mm print, a documentary that cap...
Proving that a crowdpleaser doesn’t need to pander to succeed, Puzzle was one of the better films I saw at Sundance this year. Featuring a great Kelly Macdo...
With his small-scale, deeply felt, and wonderfully-realized dramas, Matthew Porterfield has carved out an impressive eye for a Baltimore we don't often see ...