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In a broken world not unlike our own, the state corrals a group of teenagers into a tightly controlled terrain and compels them to murder one another with an assortment of...
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A largely first-person documentary about living with a range of disorders, OC87 is also, in a sense, about a long hiatus from moviemaking. Nearly three decades ago, Bud...
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The Woman in the Septic Tank is a cheeky backstage farce of the poverty-film genre frequently exported by developing nations—here, the Philippines. Offhand, I can think...
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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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Every once in a while, a movie comes along that’s so utterly shameless that it achieves a certain grandeur. Peter Berg’s Battleship, which I swear to God is...
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The origin story of a beloved bedroom gadget, Hysteria, set in London in the 1880s, proceeds as a tedious, clumsy diddle, constantly reminding viewers how much progress has...
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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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Following the pallid, sleep-deprived programmers who create entertainment on Microsoft's Xbox gaming platform, Indie Game: The Movie is an insightful new geek documentary,...
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The idea that addiction (drugs, alcoholism) is a disease is still scoffed at in some quarters, but what traction the once-radical notion has is largely due to the work of...
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In an old news clip that is played in the documentary Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story, a newscaster says, "You can tell a lot about a people by the rumors they share." You...
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Dustin Lance Black, scribe of J. Edgar and Milk, gets behind the camera for Virginia, a bonkers tragicomedy that blandly mocks the red-state family-values charade. The title...
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Although originally released in Japan eight years ago, the New York debut of Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog is well-timed: It arrives less than a month after Darling...
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During the late summer of 1910, a distraught Gustav Mahler journeyed to Holland to spend a single afternoon with a vacationing Sigmund Freud, and their onetime encounter...
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The subtitle of Tales From Dell City, Texas reads "(pop. 569 and dropping)," but Josh Carter's multifaceted doc isn't strictly a lament for a once-prosperous town now fallen...
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Bizarre, off-putting, and finally demanding of rubberneck respect, this fish-tank indie never leaves a rather lovely duplex apartment, occupied by an unemployed Everyman...
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The "name" connected to Lovely Molly is that of director Eduardo Sánchez, one of the perpetrators of 1999's Blair Witch Project hoax, a marketing coup and major...
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In one of the clips of him featured in Never Stand Still, a rough history of northern Massachusetts's Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, the late modern-dance pioneer Ted Shawn...
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Considering that many modern-day music documentaries present an unerringly glowing portrait of the artist, it’s a pleasant surprise that Under African Skies not only...
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Ingeniously simple yet deceptively intricate, this French police thriller abounds in post–Woo/Tarantino action tropes: the usual galloping gun battles, quirky hoods,...
