• Movie Review First Position 

    A Spellbound-style documentary follows young ballet dancers as they compete at the Youth America Grand Prix.  

    May 3, 2012 | 12:02am -

  • Movie Review The Perfect Family 

    Warning: The title of this Kathleen Turner drama may be ironic.  

    May 3, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Movie Review Sound Of My Voice 

    Coming out of the same Sundance as Martha Marcy May Marlene, this investigation into an otherworldly cult leader strikes a similar chord. 

    April 26, 2012 | 12:10am -

  • Movie Review Elles 

    Juliette Binoche plays a journalist for French Elle who gets invested in the racy story of student prostitutes.  

    April 26, 2012 | 12:04am -

  • Movie Review Penumbra

    A killable protagonist takes the edge off this mostly single-setting horror movie.

    April 19, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Movie Review The Three Stooges

    Can the vaudeville antics of the eye-plunking trio work in the modern age?

    April 12, 2012 | 12:14am -

  • Movie Review Hit So Hard

    Former Hole drummer Patty Schemel talks about Courtney Love, Kurt Cobain, and her own battles with addiction.

    April 12, 2012 | 12:08am -

  • Movie Review Late Bloomers

    Costa Gavras’ daughter Julie directs William Hurt and Isabella Rossellini in a three-quarters life crisis drama. 

    April 12, 2012 | 12:05am -

  • Movie Review The Assault

    The 1994 hijacking of an Air France plane in Algiers led to a tense real-life stand-off that dissipates on the screen. 

    April 5, 2012 | 12:02am -

  • Movie Review We The Party

    An energetic chronicle of youth culture is not short on Van Peebles. 

    April 5, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Movie Review Losing Control 

    Uncomfortable racial humor turns an already dicey indie romance sour.  

    March 29, 2012 | 12:01am -

  • Movie Review The Trouble With Bliss

    Michael C. Hall brings dishevelment to the role of a jobless 35-year-old who takes up with the teenager daughter of a former classmate. 

    March 22, 2012 | 12:05am -

  • Movie Review October Baby

    A woman goes searching for the mother who tried to abort her in a pro-life tract that’s every bit as creepy as it sounds. 

    March 22, 2012 | 12:02am -

  • Inventory So, the lady or the tiger? 28 stories that make the audience choose the ending

    The A.V. Club's weekly list

    March 19, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Movie Review Free Men 

    A Prophet's Tahar Rahim plays an Algerian immigrant who fights for the French Resistance in a by-the-numbers WWII drama.  

    March 16, 2012 | 2:30pm -

  • Movie Review Natural Selection

    Rachael Harris gives a revelatory performance as a barren housewife who looks for her dying husband’s illegitimate son.

    March 15, 2012 | 12:02am -

  • Movie Review The Decoy Bride

    A Hollywood actress’ wedding in Scotland is upended by a local hired as a decoy to throw off the press.

    March 8, 2012 | 12:05am -

  • Movie Review Footnote

    The Israeli nominee for Best Foreign Language Film deals with a father-son rivalry in a university’s Talmudic studies department.  

    March 8, 2012 | 12:04am -

  • Movie Review Let The Bullets Fly 

    Chow Yun-fat stars in a lavish period action comedy that has broken box office records in China.  

    March 1, 2012 | 12:05am -

  • Movie Review The Salt Of Life 

    Writer/director/star Gianni Di Gregorio follows up Mid-August Lunch with another minor pleasure about the trials of a retiree.  

    March 1, 2012 | 12:04am -

  • Movie Review Hipsters

    A Russian musical. Yes, such things exist.  

    February 23, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Movie Review On The Ice

    Eskimo noir. As chilling as it sounds. 

    February 16, 2012 | 12:01am -

  • Movie Review Putin's Kiss

    A diehard teenaged Putin supporter finds her coming-of-age coincides with misgivings about him.

    February 16, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Movie Review Perfect Sense 

    Ewan McGregor and Eva Green star in an apocalyptic romance that handles the apocalypse better than the romance. 

    February 9, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • For Our Consideration Deciphering the shorts: A guide to this year’s Oscar nominees

    Inside the Academy Awards’ least-seen nominees. 

    February 9, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Movie Review The Innkeepers

    Director Ti West follows up The House Of The Devil with another effective old-school haunted house movie.

    February 2, 2012 | 12:03am -

  • Movie Review Kill List

    Murder by numbers. One, two, three.

    February 2, 2012 | 12:01am -

  • Movie Review Declaration Of War

    A beautiful, semi-autobiographical French drama finds a couple grappling with their two-year-old’s cancer diagnosis. 

    January 26, 2012 | 12:01am -

  • Movie Review Carol Channing: Larger Than Life

    An admiring portrait of the Broadway icon only scratches the surface. 

    January 19, 2012 | 12:03am -

  • Movie Review Watching TV With The Red Chinese

    When students from communist China come to New York City in 1980, they’re in for a little culture shock. 

    January 19, 2012 | 12:00am -