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And here's my own Top 10 list for last year. Her

Where most films by the great Jia Zhangke unfurl tales of everyday people cast adrift by the massive upheavals in China’s econo...

Here's the L's list , which I contributed to...

Like Incendies, Twice Born is the story of a doomed romance and a loving family with secrets so toxic even the family itself doe...

Based on the Broadway musical, not Roger Corman’s rough-edged black-and-white original, Frank Oz’s highly stylized rom-com take...

After one of their titanic lovemaking sessions, Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos) teasingly asks Emma (Léa Seydoux) for a grade. Leah as...

Marion Cotillard is an icon of suffering in James Gray's somber passion play The Immigrant . As he did in Little Odessa, Th...

There is no shortage of title characters in this tale about the destructive power of a deeply dysfunctional family, but if the men...

Like its heroine, Abuse of Weakness wastes no time looking back, eschewing flashbacks of director Maud Schoenberg (Isabelle Hup...

"An odyssey where the main character doesn't go anywhere," as Ethan Coen put it in the Q&A after the New York...

Worth seeing for the star-making performance of the great Frances Farmer, who burned out a few years later, Come and Get It s...

Natural-born feminist (probably thanks to that tiger mom he immortalized in Almost Famous ) and lovingly bemused pop culture chro...

Where The Artist damned the silent film era with fake praise, professing nostalgia for the worst of its sentimental excesses,...

This is a rare chance to see a powerful film that never aired on American TV or had a standard theatrical run since its BBC de...

A glittery-eyed Dirk Bogarde morphs from abject subservience to contemptuous control while James Fox slowly deflates from the une...

The fuzzy, shades-of-gray black-and-white of the decades-old Sony video camera that director Andrew Bujalski used to shoot Comp...

My friend John Morthland, who programmed panels for the South by Southwest film festival in its infancy, says he could only g...

Consuming Spirits is what you might get if Ironweed mated with A Prairie Home Companion and had a movie baby. Set in a Rust Be...

It’s been a good year for cautionary tales about how easy it is for our criminal justice system to be abused—and abusive. The Hou...

Like John Milius' 1984 original, from which it never strays far, Dan Bradley’s remake feeds the warrior fantasies of adolesce...

When director Shoehei Imamura started this black-and-white docudrama in the mid-1960s, he intended to investigate why tens thousa...

For a few disheartening minutes, grim statistics and drive-by shots of Detroit’s abandoned buildings make this look like another ...

“I like to cut the sound. It gives more punch to what’s coming,” Antoine (Kevin Parent) says of his DJ-ing style in Café de Fl...

No was part of the 2012 New York Film Festival The brilliant Chilean director Pablo Larraín gives us another take (after Tony ...

Mary Elizabeth Winstead is magnetic as Kate in Smashed , a delayed coming-of-age story that never quite gets inside its heroine...

Night Across the Street was part of the 2012 New York Film Festival "It was very autobiographical," said producer Fra...

Memories Look at Me was part of the 2012 New York Film Festival In this quiet meditation on mortality, the he...

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 ...