Film

  • Movie Review Upstream Color

    Shane Carruth’s follow-up to Primer is a brain-melting, quasi-experimental sci-fi triumph.

    April 4, 2013 | 12:07am -

  • Movie Review Simon Killer

    Director Antonio Campos follows up Afterschool with another disturbing portrait of alienation and violence.

    April 4, 2013 | 12:06am -

  • Movie Review The Brass Teapot

    A couple discovers a magical teapot that dispenses cash. But there’s a catch.

    April 4, 2013 | 12:05am -

  • Movie Review Andre Gregory: Before And After Dinner

    The André of My Dinner With André continues the conversation.

    April 4, 2013 | 12:04am -

  • Movie Review Free Angela And All Political Prisoners

    Will and Jada Pinkett Smith produced this profile of incendiary activist Angela Davis.

    April 4, 2013 | 12:03am -

  • Movie Review Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal

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

    April 4, 2013 | 12:02am -

  • Movie Review No Place On Earth

    A cave spelunker literally uncovers a hideaway for Jews in the Ukraine in Janet Tobias’ documentary.

    April 4, 2013 | 12:01am -

  • Movie Review Evil Dead

    Sam Raimi’s indie horror staple gets remade as an unironic The Cabin In The Woods.

    April 4, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • Movie Review Trance

    Danny Boyle’s hallucinogenic thriller follows the unconventional pursuit of a lost painting.

    April 4, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • Movie Review Tyler Perry’s Temptation: Confessions Of A Marriage Counselor

    Tyler Perry brings his usual tonal shifts and lack of subtlety to this PG-13 erotic thriller. 

    March 29, 2013 | 4:34pm -

  • Movie Review The Host

    The creator of The Twilight Saga offers her Twilight-esque take on the well-worn body-snatchers premise.

    March 28, 2013 | 12:08am -

  • Movie Review The Place Beyond The Pines

    Derek Cianfrance’s ambitious follow-up to Blue Valentine attempts an intimate epic.

    March 28, 2013 | 12:08am -

  • 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 Blancanieves

    Pablo Berger’s silent, black-and-white take on Snow White couldn’t be further from The Artist.

    March 28, 2013 | 12:06am -

  • Movie Review Starbuck

    n this popular Quebecois comedy, an overgrown adolescent comes to terms with the hundreds of people he sired via sperm donation.

    March 28, 2013 | 12:05am -

  • Movie Review Detour

    Trapped in his SUV under a California mudslide, a businessman tries to MacGyver his way out.

    March 28, 2013 | 12:04am -

  • 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 -

  • Movie Review White Elephant

    Two priests and a social worker try to make a difference in a Buenos Aires slum, but their efforts put them in peril.

    March 28, 2013 | 12:02am -

  • Movie Review Violeta Went To Heaven

    This fine biopic chronicles Violeta Perra, an Chilean folksinger who raised hackles during Pinochet’s rule.

    March 28, 2013 | 12:01am -

  • Movie Review Room 237

    Rodney Ascher’s superb essay-doc compares elaborate theories about the meaning of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.

    March 28, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • Movie Review G.I. Joe: Retaliation

    The Joes fight another diabolical Cobra Commander scheme in a sequel audiences apparently wanted.

    March 28, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • Movie Review Wrong

    The surreal touches of Quentin Dupieux’s feature Rubber are present again in his eccentric follow-up.

    March 28, 2013 | 12:00am -

  • Movie Review Admission

    Tina Fey and Paul Rudd team up for a romantic comedy/drama about family and academia.

    March 21, 2013 | 12:08am -

  • 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 The Croods

    A prehistoric family discovers life outside the cave in DreamWorks’ slapstick animated adventure.

    March 21, 2013 | 12:06am -

  • Movie Review Eden

    An indie about sex slavery outside Vegas exists in an awkward place between exposé and thriller.

    March 21, 2013 | 12:05am -

  • Movie Review Gimme The Loot

    In an exhilarating indie, writer-director Adam Leon follows two Bronx graffiti artists looking to “Bomb The Apple.”

    March 21, 2013 | 12:04am -

  • Movie Review Hunky Dory

    In 1976, a drama teacher (Minnie Driver) attempts to get a musical version of The Tempest off the ground.

    March 21, 2013 | 12:03am -

  • 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 -

  • Movie Review The Sapphires

    Chris O’Dowd plays a talent scout who puts together an Aboriginal girl group in this Australian musical comedy.

    March 21, 2013 | 12:01am -