The Bourne Legacy: Who's the New Guy?
The Bourne films have more than just overstayed their welcome and outlasted the Ludlum books—they've been Van Halenized, with an abrupt change o...
View ArticleBrother, Can You Spare a Dollar
A well-meaning amateur doc apparently shot with a camcorder and assembled on an old Mac with Final Cut Express, Hoffman’s home-movie-ish diatrib...
View ArticleLittle Birds
The first feature from gang member/punk rocker/semi-notorious homeless-kid-turned-Sundance-protégé Elgin James, this polished but anemic...
View ArticleFor Ellen
The method-y, elfin-brooder, hipster-star-of-the-moment Paul Dano has four movies out this year, but here is his one-man show, a post-Cassavetes gift ...
View ArticleArbitrage
Slick and grown-up as Richard Gere himself, this intricate fiscal thriller takes a dead bead on extreme privilege, with Gere's Madoff-like billionaire...
View ArticleThe Manzanar Fishing Club
A charming if tone-deaf pro-am doc edited on someone's Mac, Cory Shiozaki's film slices out yet another unexplored layer of bizarre World War II histo...
View ArticleBranded
Are we being bamboozled? Released with minimum print ads, no review screenings, and an outrageously misleading TV trailer, this forsaken whatsit has c...
View ArticleAbout About Cherry
The new, semi-gritty indie About Cherry is all about a semi-reluctant slide into the porn industry, and it's also the first mainstream feature co-writ...
View ArticleSolomon Kane
Nobody seemed to have faith in this benighted, Robert E. Howard–based sword-and-sorcery demi-epic, which is three years old, has already wound i...
View ArticleThe Double Steps (Los Pasos Dobles)
A bedeviling, blithe Spanish meta-film shot entirely in the dunes and cliff villages of Mali, The Double Steps begins with the tale of painter-author ...
View ArticleWuthering Heights: Black Like Me
British filmmaker Andrea Arnold's remarkable new adaptation of Wuthering Heights comes packing some redoubtable weapons, including the most atmospheri...
View ArticleWith The The First Time, Teen Romance Seems New Again
Objectively, what the world needs now is another teen-romance-slash-virginity-loss dramedy like we need a hole in our collective movie heads. But Jona...
View ArticleLa Rafle
A standard-issue mezzobrow Holocaust melodrama of the sort you'd have thought Roberto Benigni had assassinated, this popular French film centers on th...
View ArticleBuffalo Girls
There's no underestimating man's beetle-browed jones to exploit anything and anyone small and weak for fun and profit, so perhaps it's no surprise tha...
View ArticleOtelo Burning
An earnest, unthinking, life-is-beautiful global indie of the sort Miramax used to scarf up by the dozens every year, this South African ditty is even...
View ArticleHeleno Is Defeated by Movie Formula
Brazilian soccer demigod Heleno de Freitas comes packing a résumé irresistible to biopic-makers: stunning good looks, unbeatable profess...
View ArticleYelling to the Sky
A heavy-handed, Precious-manqué teen-tribulation indie, Victoria Mahoney's Yelling to the Sky plops us down in an unlikely urban hood (shot in ...
View ArticleEngland Grinds: 56 Up Reveals Life in Stasis
Life goes inexorably, chillingly on. The Up series, Michael Apted's famous calendrical march, presses forth now into its eighth episode, with the same...
View ArticleThe Old New Black Cinema: MOMI Celebrates a Movement
The so-called "LA Rebellion" that emanated out of UCLA in the late '60s and '70s was the pioneering stake on a genuine "black cinema." Barnstorming "...
View ArticleMark Webber Gets Earnest as Hell in The End of Love
Surviving on the periphery of Young Hollywood thanks, it seems, to his friendships with the likes of Ethan Hawke and Jason Ritter, Mark Webber has de...
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