Perhaps Jason Bateman is tired of playing the likeable voice of reason amongst more idiotic counterparts, an character that his iconic turn as Michael Bluth on ...
While it often feels like a brother to Jeff Nichols' brilliant Mud, David Gordon Green's newest drama Joe even has the same young actor supporting his titular l...
Philomena arrived at the Toronto International Film Festival from its world premiere Venice waving a flag that read “crowd-pleasing,” and that can be a scary pr...
In a film festival climate which often seeks to grab attention through comparison -- "it’s this year’s that," or, just as often, "it’s this meets that" -- we, o...
After delivering one of the most striking, effective films of the last few years with The Arbor, director Clio Barnard has returned with a new drama, which ...
Prisoners might be the most shockingly dark studio release since Fight Club, a grim, unsettling, occasionally convoluted, but undeniably gripping thriller. The ...
If anyone asked if Jason Reitman was truly a great director or, rather, someone with excellent luck in choosing projects -- I remember thinking his Best Directo...
After finding a glut of recent work in television, it's good to see writer-director Richard Shepard back in theaters with Dom Hemingway. As a big fan of both Th...
It can be said that emerging writer-director Ti West sets a certain expectation, making what some consider to be "anti-horror" films. There's been the '80s feti...
The Finishers is a wonderful, crowd-pleasing tearjerker from director Nils Tavernier, inspired by the real-life Hoyt family from Holland, MA. Fabien Héraud star...
