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As Mighty Fine's Joe Fine, a businessman who relocates his family from Brooklyn to Louisiana in
1974, Chazz Palminteri rages at everything and anything: at wife Stella (Andie...
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A narcissistic spectacle of male
grief, Redlegs charts the reunion of three twentysomething friends (two white and one Colombian) in their hometown of Cincinnati for the...
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'Nothing changes unless you make it change," intones recently paroled grifter Foley (Samuel L. Jackson) in The Samaritan, a repeated mantra not subscribed to by David Weaver's...
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Devoid of a traditional tethering narrative, You Are Here tackles philosophical questions about the relationship between technology and thought via a series of loosely...
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Yet another indie examination of humanity's escalating technophilia, Small, Beautifully Moving Parts addresses its oh-so-contemporary concerns through the story of Sarah (Anna...
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The nonfiction formula pioneered by Spellbound leads to frustrating superficiality in First Position, a glossy documentary about a multicultural collection of young ballet...
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Racism, rebellion, and filmmaking ethics intertwine in Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story, a documentary by Raymond De Felitta that focuses on a 1965 NBC News piece by De...
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It's not clear what Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale values more—endless preaching about ancestral spirits or gruesome CG decapitations. Wei Te-sheng's lurching...
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Synthesizing fact and fiction, Snow on tha Bluff details the day-to-day misadventures of fast-talking dope-slinger Curtis Snow, a ne'er-do-well who opens Damon Russell's...
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There's no surer way to murder horror than to literalize it, a mistake incessantly made by The Moth Diaries. At a ritzy remote boarding school, Rebecca (Sarah Bolger), her...
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There's no one quite as domineering as a daddy with a dream for his son, a situation that leads to standard-issue rebellion in Downtown Express. The twist to director David...
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A documentary saga of heartbreaking concentration-camp horrors, Inside Hana's Suitcase attempts to preserve Holocaust memories through frustratingly fractured means. Working...
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Given the overarching structural messiness that defines its examination of elder financial abuse, the only thing Last Will and Embezzlement has in the right place is its...
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Admirable only for its sincere responsibility-over-selfishness message and for giving The Wire alums Chad Coleman and Jamie Hector some big-screen work, Life, Love, Soul...
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In Brooklyn's Crown Heights projects, death is everywhere, a fact addressed with compassion if not quite analytical depth in Player Hating: A Love Story. Maggie...
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Artificial Paradises is the elegiac tale of two mismatched Mexican souls at a rundown beach resort who search for a bit of utopia through—and are bonded by—drugs....
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A fertile portrait of the creative marriage between the organic and inorganic, Convento gazes reverentially at the mad-scientist designs of Christiaan Zwanikken, a Dutch...
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With a title like Let the Bullets Fly and a star like iconic Killer assassin Chow Yun-fat, it's not unreasonable to expect more than a few scattered, semi-memorable shoot-outs...
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Art, politics, and craziness conspire to form a rather mechanical melodrama in Black Butterflies, the true-life tale of famed 1960s South African poet Ingrid Jonker (Carice...
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Like its title, Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? purports to ask a question but is only interested in forwarding its predictable agitprop answer. The crux of nonfiction...
