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By Aaron Hillis
In a movie season worshipped for its CGI-boosted, spiritually bankrupt juvenilia, it's heartening to know that filmmakers still create summer... More >>
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By Camille Lamb
Fifteen-year-old Alma just might be the horniest person in Norway. She rings up exorbitant phone sex bills when her mom, a single parent, is out... More >>
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By Karina Longworth
In writer/director Abel Ferrara's vision of the apocalypse, Chinese joints deliver right up until the end. The media's "live coverage" continues... More >>
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By Karina Longworth
Twentysomething Silver Lake couple Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius) talk their way into an unnamed cult that meets in the... More >>
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By Nick Pinkerton
Can any one of the millions of Americans who saw Men in Black 2 in 2002 describe its plot today? A single scene? I saw both MIB movies upon their... More >>
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By Karina Longworth
The latest phantasmagoria of cinematic quotation from Canadian director Guy Maddin, Keyhole is an extremely loose adaptation of the Odyssey.... More >>
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By Nick Pinkerton
Richard Linklater's Bernie is the rarest of rarities: a truly unexpected film. It might be classified as a black comedy, for it deals with the... More >>
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By Brian Miller
Following the pallid, sleep-deprived programmers who create entertainment on Microsoft's Xbox gaming platform, Indie Game: The Movie is an... More >>
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By Nick Pinkerton
Every once in a while, a movie comes along that's so utterly shameless that it achieves a certain grandeur. Peter Berg's Battleship, which is... More >>
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By Ciara LaVelle
If you're the kind of know-it-all film buff who predicts festival winners, you've probably already seen Bonsái, the Chilean film that took... More >>
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By Ciara LaVelle
When it comes to the arts, and film in particular, it's easy to believe there's nothing new under the sun. At first, Chinese Take-Away seems to... More >>
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By Eric Hynes
Even though it doesn't have a story, characters, or setting, Heidi Murkoff's mega-bestselling, 28-year-old pregnancy manual, What to Expect When... More >>
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By Ernest Hardy
In an old news clip that is played in the documentary Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story, a newscaster says, "You can tell a lot about a people... More >>
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By Melissa Anderson
More an intriguing premise than a successful film, the Malmö-set Sound of Noise, about a group of "musical terrorists," quickly loses its... More >>
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By Aaron Hillis
Since their irresistibly madcap 2005 debut Iceberg, Belgium-based filmmakers, actors, and former clowns Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, and Bruno... More >>
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