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Here and There will play on September 29, October 2 and October 10 as part of the 2012 New York Film Festival. Here and There...

Stockton, New Jersey resident Larry McConkey is a cinematographer and award-winning Steadicam operator whose credits include ...

As cheeky as its stripped-down, Pink Panther-esque Ennio Morricone score, this 1970 Italian satire starts at the apartment of...

In this scrupulously realistic and ultimately optimistic documentary, Peter Nicks creates what appears to be a chronicle of a...

LA is home to more Armenians than almost anyplace else in the diaspora, so it was probably inevitable that we’d eventually get...

Skilled at establishing a deadpan look and tone but not always successful at maintaining narrative tension, Snowman’s Land is a pr...

Director Neil Berkeley’s first feature is as puckish as its subject, so steeped in artist Wayne White’s creative juices that it m...

Most of us think we know a thing or two about the modeling business, regardless of whether our first thoughts are of bulimia or B...

Where did longtime production manager and novice director Christopher Kenneally get the cojones to turn so many masters of the ...

Sleepwalk with Me, a first movie by comedian and now writer-director Mike Birbiglia, seems at first to be a string of funny an...

Disney draws a big fat bullseye on the fast-growing infertile-couple demographic with this airless misfire.

Red Hook Summer , Spike Lee’s latest movie, is the most recent entry in what this often great and always interesting director...

The flaws I attributed to little experience and less money in Spike Lee’s often brilliant feature debut, She’s Gotta Have It , ...

It’s probably just coincidence, but the most creative periods for the movies seem to occur about every 30 years, usually triggered by some n...

We’re all wise to the tricks the media is trying to play on us by now, but that kind of self-awareness was still pretty new when ...

In To Rome with Love , Phyllis (a resplendent Judy Davis, looser than I can remember ever having seen her before), the sardonicall...

Collaborator promises at first to be pleasantly loaded with subtext. Slow tracking shots make even luxurious environments look ...

In this comedy of bad manners, writer/director brothers Mark and Jay Duplass position their zoom-happy handheld camera, as usual,...

At end of Kumaré , an internal-journey-lite documentary that plays with the question of what constitutes true enlightenment the ...

An Alien prequel with almost none of the original’s relentless suspense or scrappy irreverence, Prometheus plays a lot like one ...

Requiem for Detroit? will screen Thursday, June 14 and Sunday, June 17 at Anthology Film Archives's "Sometimes Cities:...

Salaam Dunk is screening June 16-18 as part of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival Shot in Northern Iraq in 2010, Salaam Du...

“So what’s your story about?” a government agent asks a reporter as this strenuously wistful rom-com winds to a close. “Oh, the ...

At his best, Sacha Baron Cohen knocks us off balance with blitzkriegs containing nearly every possible kind of joke, from gross...

Thursday, May 31 at New York City's Spectacle Theater Flowing like a wide river of pleasure and pain, Metal and Melancholy...

An awkwardly stitched-together collection of mismatched parts, Dark Shadows is a Frankenstein’s monster of a movie, a vampire ...

In the blog that provides a cozy canopy of voiceover truisms to The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel , Evelyn Greenslade (Judi Dench)...

If it’s hard to adapt an artfully written traditional novel, imagine the challenge facing director Grant Gee ( Joy Division ) wh...

Where Do We Go Now? director Nadine Labaki likes to create a sense of family when she works, collaborating with people she lov...

In a nation that gets more homogenized every day, Texas still feels, as its ad slogan says, “like a whole other country.” That’...

A cocky Norwegian headhunter with a Napoleon complex (“It doesn’t take a PhD to see I’m overcompensating for my height,” he info...

Elles played in this year's Tribeca Film Festival. A loose collection of half-baked ideas that even the great Juliette Bin...

Headshot played in this year's Tribeca Film Festival. This “Buddhist film noir,” as writer-director Pen-El Ranaruang calls ...

In Bernie, Richard Linklater tells the true story (based on a Texas Monthly article by Skip Hollandsworth) of a man in a small...

Chicken With Plums played in this year's Tribeca Film Festival. A fable about the damage done when a young couple is forc...

The Girl is playing on April 24 and 28 as part of the Tribeca Film Festival. A better but still flawed version of the story tol...

2 Days in New York is playing on April 26, 27 and 28 as part of the Tribeca Film Festival. A comedy of manners paced like a cla...

All In  is playing on April 20, 21, 23, 26, and 27 as part of the Tribeca Film Festival. Daniel Burman's oddly weightless A...

It took prodigious talent, drive, and creative vision for Bob Marley to turn what amounted to ghetto music from a marginalized ...

Like Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close , another film whose main character has what appears to be Asperger syndrome, Footnote r...

Set in francophone Montreal, which looks to be as much a city of immigrants as my own New York, Monsieur Lazhar is a delicately p...

The Hunger Games is a good example of what you can do with a strong plot and cast—and what you can’t. The film faithfully foll...

The films of writer-director brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne usually pivot on a tough moral choice forced on the main characte...

So what have we here? Is Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress a more broadly satiric variation on Clueless , with Greta Gerwig ...

Teddy Bear is playing on March 29 and 31 as part of the New Directors/New Films series. From its title to its closing caress,...

Karl Marx said history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. TV shows seem to be doing the same. Judging by the trai...

Huan Huan is playing on March 27 and 28 as part of the New Directors/New Films series. Casual corruption, bossy neighbors who k...

Las Acacias is playing on March 22 and 24 as part of the New Directors/New Films series. The cab of a truck is the setting for ...

Half Assault on Precinct 13 and half Shaw Brothers-style old school martial arts, The Raid: Redemption is an instant classic. ...

An Oversimplification of Her Beauty is playing on March 24 and 26 as part of the New Directors/New Films series. A playfully se...