• Movie Review For Ellen 

    Writer-director So Yong Kim (In Between Days) follows a failed Chicago hard-rocker (Paul Dano) as he faces trouble at home. 

    September 6, 2012 | 12:03am -

  • Movie Review Toys In The Attic 

    Czech animator Jiri Barta provides a wonderfully demented stop-motion answer to Toy Story

    September 6, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Movie Review The Ambassador 

    A stunt-happy Danish documentarian goes undercover in the Central African Republic, but what he finds is no laughing matter. 

    August 30, 2012 | 12:04am -

  • Movie Review The Good Doctor 

    Warning: The title of this drama, starring Lord Of The Rings' Orlando Bloom, may be ironic. 

    August 30, 2012 | 12:02am -

  • Movie Review Samsara 

    Ron Fricke's 70mm follow-up to Baraka is full of visual poetry. Just don't think about it too hard. 

    August 23, 2012 | 12:05am -

  • Movie Review General Education 

    An awful lead character sabotages this offbeat indie comedy about a tennis prodigy forced to take summer school.  

    August 23, 2012 | 12:01am -

  • Movie Review The Awakening 

    Rebecca Hall and Dominic West star in a “classy” ghost story in the vein ofThe Others and The Orphange

    August 16, 2012 | 12:03am -

  • Movie Review Beloved 

    Christophe Honoré’s star-studded, multi-generational musical puts turbulent family drama into song.  

    August 16, 2012 | 12:02am -

  • Movie Review Goats 

    David Duchovny strays far outside his comfort zone to play “Goat Man” in an unusual indie coming-of-age movie. 

    August 9, 2012 | 12:03am -

  • Movie Review This Time 

    Most music documentaries honor the greats or at least the has-beens. This one gives some time to the never-wases. 

    August 9, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Movie Review 360 

    The director of City Of God and The Constant Gardener tries his hand at the everything-is-connected international drama.

    August 2, 2012 | 12:07am -

  • Movie Review Assassin’s Bullet 

    Forget about Christian Slater and Donald Sutherland’s names in the cast list: This weird vanity actioner belongs to a lesser-known talent.

    August 2, 2012 | 12:03am -

  • Movie Review Nuit #1

    A couple hooks up for a one-night stand, and then gets to know each other, in this raw, stagy French-Canadian drama.  

    July 26, 2012 | 12:03am -

  • Movie Review Planet Of Snail

    This touching Korean documentary follows the unusual relationship between a deaf-blind man and a woman with a spinal disability.

    July 25, 2012 | 10:30am -

  • Movie Review Trishna 

    The prolific Michael Winterbottom turns to Thomas Hardy a third time in this updated tale of class division in India. 

    July 12, 2012 | 12:04am -

  • Movie Review Ballplayer: Pelotero 

    A documentary examines baseball culture in the Dominican Republic, a fertile territory for major league prospects. 

    July 12, 2012 | 12:01am -

  • Movie Review Savages

    The epithet applies to everyone in Oliver Stone's semi-toothless look at the violent marijuana trade. 

    July 5, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Movie Review Last Ride 

    Hugo Weaving plays a violent scoundrel of a father who absconds deep into the Australian outback with his son. 

    June 28, 2012 | 12:03am -

  • Movie Review Kumaré 

    When a man goes undercover as a fake yogi to expose the falsely spiritual, the prank turns on him, too. 

    June 21, 2012 | 12:01am -

  • Movie Review To Rome With Love 

    Woody Allen’s postcard tour of Europe continues with a slight quartet of unrelated stories. 

    June 21, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Movie Review The Girl From The Naked Eye 

    Before Sin City gets a sequel, this feeble graphic noir will have to do.  

    June 14, 2012 | 12:03am -

  • Movie Review Tahrir: Liberation Square 

    A you-are-there documentary captures the chaos and excitement of Arab Spring.  

    June 14, 2012 | 12:01am -

  • Movie Review Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted 

    The further animated adventures of big-city zoo animals may be unnecessary, but they’re weirdly inspired.

    June 7, 2012 | 12:04am -

  • Movie Review Peace, Love & Misunderstanding 

    Jane Fonda makes her first on-screen appearance since Georgia Rule, but in another film unworthy of her talent. 

    June 7, 2012 | 12:03am -

  • Movie Review 5 Broken Cameras 

    The tensions between Israel and Palestine take viscerally powerful form in this personal documentary.  

    May 31, 2012 | 12:06am -

  • Movie Review U.N. Me 

    Inspired by Bowling For Columbine, this conservative first-person documentary picks apart the United Nations. 

    May 31, 2012 | 12:01am -

  • Movie Review Beyond The Black Rainbow

    Panos Cosmatos’ trippy sci-fi fantasia makes up in experimental grandeur what it lacks in coherence. 

    May 17, 2012 | 12:05am -

  • Movie Review Lovely Molly

    The co-director of The Blair Witch Project integrates camcorder-horror into a Repulsion-like tale of psychological dread.  

    May 17, 2012 | 12:02am -

  • Movie Review Sleepless Night 

    A gaping stab wound and a big bag of coke add up to one terrible night in this taut French thriller.  

    May 10, 2012 | 12:04am -

  • Movie Review Tonight You’re Mine 

    A love story between two unctuous rockers plays out against the far more interesting backdrop of a Scottish music festival.  

    May 10, 2012 | 12:03am -