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Watch This Even by the standards of noir, Night Moves is harsh

Gene Hackman snoops around the Florida Keys in Arthur Penn’s ultra-bleak crime flick.

April 26, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Mud

Matthew McConaughey's winning streak continues with an adventure yarn from the director of Take Shelter.

April 25, 2013 | 12:09am -
Movie Review Paradise: Love

Ulrich Seidl (Import/Export) kicks off his bleak Paradise trilogy with a tale of mutual exploitation.

April 25, 2013 | 12:07am -
Scenic Routes The big numbers are the lowlight of Dancer In The Dark

Can Lars von Trier’s musical—or any musical—transcend bad song-and-dance routines?

April 22, 2013 | 11:00am -
Watch This The cerebral sci-fi classic Solaris is for adventurous viewers only

Thirty years before Steven Soderbergh vexed audiences with a glossy remake, Andrei Tarkovsky unleashed an even more challenging sci-fi opus.

April 17, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Movie Review The Angels’ Share

Ken Loach lightens up with a winning comedy about community servants who get into the whiskey business.

April 11, 2013 | 12:02am -
Scenic Routes The cats, not the cast, draw viewers’ eyes in Jean Vigo’s classic L’Atalante

What the film’s remarkable use of felines says about the practice of putting animals in movies.

April 8, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This Why Bull Durham is the greatest baseball movie ever made

Ron Shelton’s endlessly quotable romantic comedy makes passion its subject.

April 8, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Tomorrow You’re Gone

An ex-con (Stephen Dorff) goes on a dangerous mission for his jailhouse mentor (Willem Dafoe) in this indie thriller.

April 4, 2013 | 12:08am -
Movie Review Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal

This horror-comedy does feature a sleepwalking cannibal, but also subtler pleasures.

April 4, 2013 | 12:02am -
Watch This Jean Cocteau’s The Blood Of A Poet is a mesmerizingly bizarre feast for the senses

Made in the early ’30s, a Surrealist wonder severs all ties to narrative convention.

April 3, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Welcome To The Punch

In this strong thriller, a crook (Mark Strong) emerges from hiding to help his son after a heist gone wrong.

March 28, 2013 | 12:07am -
Movie Review Renoir

The legacies of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and his director son Jean are linked by a model-turned-actress.

March 28, 2013 | 12:03am -
Watch This Lost In La Mancha chronicles the unmaking of Terry Gilliam’s Don Quixote film

When a director of famously troubled productions decided to tackle a massive, challenging classic, the results were inevitable.

March 27, 2013 | 12:00am -
Scenic Routes What Quiz Show proves about film directing and Argo’s Best Director snub

Sometimes the director is just along for the ride.

March 25, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Movie Review Everybody Has A Plan

Viggo Mortensen returns to the Argentina of his childhood for a Spanish-language film about twins and mistaken identity.

March 21, 2013 | 12:07am -
Movie Review My Brother The Devil

In this ambitious genre film, the troubled sons of Egyptian immigrants try to survive in British gangland.

March 21, 2013 | 12:02am -
Watch This Julia Loktev’s Day Night Day Night follows a suicide bomber to Times Square

The director of The Loneliest Planet tracks a woman’s harrowing path from training to execution, emphasizing her isolation.

March 20, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Emperor

General Douglas MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones) investigates Emperor Hirohito’s role in World War II in this historical fiction.

March 14, 2013 | 12:05am -
HomeVideo Review Chronicle Of A Summer

The idea of “cinéma vérité” was put to the test in this groundbreaking 1961 French documentary.

March 13, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This Two magic legends screw with viewers and each other in Penn & Teller Get Killed

The title characters’ first and last film isn’t coherent, but does have some fun with itself.

March 13, 2013 | 12:00am -
Scenic Routes The mastery of Brick’s opening (annotated by writer-director Rian Johnson)

The debut feature from the director of Looper starts strong. Here’s what it does and why it works—with thoughts from Johnson himself.

March 11, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Somebody Up There Likes Me

Even Nick Offerman can’t redeem this excruciating deadpan comedy.

March 7, 2013 | 12:07am -
Movie Review The Silence

In this tense German drama, an adult returns to the scene of a 23-year-old crime he witnessed.

March 7, 2013 | 12:04am -
Watch This A documentary about Wilco found the band—and the music world—on the brink

Only 11 years old, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart is now sweetly quaint.

March 6, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Future Weather

A 13-year-old girl deals with her mother’s abandonment by striking out on her own in this sensitive indie.

February 28, 2013 | 12:03am -
Movie Review The Condemned

A hostile, haunted town in remote Puerto Rico thwarts a doctor’s attempt to honor her father.

February 28, 2013 | 12:02am -
HomeVideo Review The Ballad Of Narayama

The ritual of leaving the elderly on a mountain to die underpins this kabuki-influenced Japanese drama.

February 27, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This Ignored by Oscar, Steve Martin gave 1984’s best lead performance in All Of Me

Sorry, F. Murray Abraham.

February 26, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This A corporate whistleblower’s daily life lends dimension to the fact-based Silkwood

Mike Nichols’ film is the rare movie about a whistleblower that acknowledges one doesn’t constantly have the whistle in one’s mouth.

February 21, 2013 | 12:00am -

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