Ice Age: Continental Drift
Geologic time might not register the mere decade that has elapsed since the first Ice Age movie, but in that interval, the animated-franchise world ha...
View ArticleParaNorman
Another handsome handcrafted charmer from Laika, the stop-motion shop that gave us Coraline, makes up for lacking its predecessor's delicacy by also l...
View ArticleTrue Wolf
Sure to be denounced as pro-wolf propaganda, Rob Whitehair's profile of Montanan fosterers-cum-educators Bruce Weide and Pat Tucker clearly sides with...
View ArticleThe Inbetweeners Movie
Teen-Sex Comedies Without Borders could be an NGO, for there is something perversely hopeful in how Ben Palmer's The Inbetweeners Movie slips across b...
View ArticleHello I Must Be Going
We knew from Heavenly Creatures that Kate Winslet had a bright career ahead, but in that film, Melanie Lynskey was the one to watch. Is it possible th...
View ArticleThe Waiting Room
The mandate at Oakland's Highland Hospital, as one doctor says during Pete Nicks's attentive vérité portrait of the place, is to admit p...
View ArticleThe Paperboy
Precious director Lee Daniels’s Southern Gothic noir pulp presents itself with the doubtful come-hither hospitality of a gator-filled swamp. Moi...
View ArticleNow, Forager: A Film About Love and Fungi
Sulky indie drama might not have been the best path through a story of mushroomers in a troubled marriage; that cheeky and possibly misleading title e...
View ArticleThe Thieves
Easier to like than it is to follow, Choi Dong-hoon's glossy caper boasts all the pomp and cajolery of the true international blockbuster. It's like s...
View ArticleTai Chi Zero
Give some points to a genre flick whose style mash-up reflects uneasy relations between Asia and the West just as its fracas-intensive plot tries to d...
View ArticleYogawoman
It'd be churlish to describe a documentary about yoga and female fortitude as agitprop, so what then? Tranquiprop? Anyway, Yogawoman clearly is a fan ...
View ArticleThe Opposite of Vanishing: 'Documentaries by Shôhei Imamura'
The late Japanese New Wave mainstay Shôhei Imamura said he liked his movies messy, and usually that meant seeing through civilized falsities to ...
View ArticleGottfried Helnwein and the Dreaming Child
When the powers behind the 2010 Tel Aviv production of Hanoch Levin's Holocaust opera The Child Dreams sought a designer, it seemed like plain sailing...
View ArticleOutside Satan: How Much Grace Can You Take?
"I can't take anymore" is the first thing anyone says in Outside Satan, about 10 mum and mystifying minutes in. Viewers who feel no generosity toward ...
View ArticleAs Luck Would Have It: By the Numbers
Calming down some from his 2010 gonzo freak-out The Last Circus, Spanish director Álex de la Iglesia teams up with scribe Randy Feldman for a p...
View ArticleWelcome to Pine Hill: Is This Real Life?
The story goes that Brooklyn filmmaker Keith Miller took his newly adopted dog for a walk one night and wound up arguing with a stranger, Shannon Har...
View ArticleVanishing Waves Pushes Less Plot, More Sex
For those who found Inception too plotty and sexless, Lithuanian director Kristina Buozyte's sleek sci-fi reverie is hereby advised. One day, a mild-...
View ArticleThe Reluctant Fundamentalist Follows A Bright Young Man from Princeton to...
In the same way novels can be better and worse than journalism at processing history, so can movies be better and worse than novels: too unreal, yet ...
View ArticleAllan Dwan and the Rise and Decline of the Hollywood Studios at MOMA
It's been more than half a century since he last made a movie, and still we keep coming back to Allan Dwan. Fifty years was also the span of his work...
View ArticleGeorges Simenon's Crimes, at the Anthology
What will people think when they see you reading the New York Review Books reprint of Georges Simenon's novel The Engagement on the subway? That cove...
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