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Escape to Witch Mountain

By Ernest Hardy, March 11, 2009

This remake of Disney’s 1975 classic Escape to Witch Mountain is pure, if mildly enjoyable, boilerplate: A spaceship crashes on earth and... More>>

The Cake Eaters

By Aaron Hillis, March 11, 2009

There's no kind of wonderful in Mary Stuart Masterson's directorial debut, yet however slight her ensemble drama—about two distressed... More>>

Watchmen

He just sapped it of its superpower.

By J. Hoberman, March 04, 2009

The most eagerly anticipated (as well as the most beleaguered) movie of the year (if not the century), Watchmen is neither desecratory disaster... More>>

Rip Torn, Roaring, at Anthology

Making bizarre look easy (and bizarre)

By Scott Foundas, March 04, 2009

Has any American actor of the last half-century more steadily and willingly hurled himself into the celluloid breach than that barrel-chested... More>>

French Connections at 14th "Rendez-Vous"

Hits, misses, and a whole lotta crazy at this year's showcase of new Gallic cinema

By Melissa Anderson, March 04, 2009

New Yorkers are fortunate enough to have a rendezvous with French cinema all year long, in any year; 2008 alone saw the release of movies like La... More>>

"Focus on IFC Films" at BAM

Featuring indie spirit, for good and evil

By Nick Pinkerton, March 04, 2009

Storied 44-year-old distributor New Yorker Films defaulted into dust this week. The passing was announced on their website—seemingly... More>>

Tokyo!

By J. Hoberman, March 04, 2009

Does anyone remember Japan? The tri-part Tokyo! revisits the Land of the Lost Decade—or at least its largest city—courtesy of tourist... More>>

By Michelle Orange, March 04, 2009

Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2008, Russian actor/director Nikita Mikhalkov's masterful, engrossing 12 is finally finding... More>>

Fados

By Nick Pinkerton, March 04, 2009

"The Fado" is a dolorous folksong tradition from Portugal, first sung in the early 19th century by barefoot peasants mending nets and... More>>

Explicit Ills

By Aaron Hillis, March 04, 2009

A tender ensemble slice of inner-city Philly life to wash out the foul taste of Crossing Over's far more explicit ills, The Hottest State star... More>>

Leave Her to Heaven

By Melissa Anderson, March 04, 2009

Within the span of two years, the otherworldly beauty Gene Tierney starred in two films with the same celestial destination: Lubitsch's 1943... More>>

Everlasting Moments

By Ella Taylor, March 04, 2009

Lovely to look at but too slow and deliberate to get lost in, Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments is a tribute to still photography filtered through... More>>

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

By Jim Ridley, March 04, 2009

"Sometimes you must stand up when standing is not easy," goes the movie’s mantra (or something to that effect); most viewers will come away... More>>

Bollywood Thriller 13B

By Nicolas Rapold, March 04, 2009

This Bollywood thriller opens promisingly enough with a bustling montage of p.o.v. shots that suggest household appliances are spying on a... More>>

Phoebe in Wonderland

By Robert Wilonsky, March 04, 2009

Nine-year-old Phoebe Lichten (Elle Fanning) is every parent's dream and nightmare—a talented child for whom school presents few challenges,... More>>

Echelon Conspiracy

By Nick Pinkerton, March 04, 2009

The box-office suicide title refers to the National Security Agency’s database for collecting surveillance material. Echelon... More>>

Sherman's Way

By Robert Wilonsky, March 04, 2009

Director Craig Saavedra and writer Tom Nance's collaboration plays like something out of an indie-film paint-by-numbers. Take a richie-rich,... More>>

Reunion

By Aaron Hillis, March 04, 2009

Upwardly mobile dullards with unchecked superiority complexes, all members of an early-'80s Yale secret society, reconvene at the 10-year... More>>

Examined Life According to Slavoj iek and Crew

Examined Life According to Slavoj Žižek and Crew

By J. Hoberman, February 25, 2009

"Things," as Dwight D. Eisenhower once observed, "are more like they are now than they have ever been before." But why? Is something better... More>>

Birdsong

By J. Hoberman, February 25, 2009

Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra is an artist whose work inspires more thinking than philosophizing. Whereas his last feature adapted Don Quixote... More>>

Crossing Over

By Scott Foundas, February 25, 2009

Haven't we been here before? The inbred mutant offspring of Crash and Babel, writer-director Wayne Kramer's Crossing Over treats the subject of... More>>

Dillinger is Dead

By Scott Foundas, February 25, 2009

Even the gas mask designed by Glauco (Michel Piccoli), the central figure in Marco Ferreri's 1969 Dillinger Is Dead, offers little protection... More>>