Girls Can Play

Starred Up opens in a dark anteroom where 16-year-old Eric Love (Jack O'Connell ) is being processed into a prison for adult...

When TV weatherman Steve Dallas (Owen Wilson) asks for his job back after quitting in disgust following years of bad behavior, ...

There's a certain kind of fantasy, appealing to teenagers, that involves imagining yourself in a situation harsh enough to jus...

In The Hundred-Foot Journey , the Kadam family—-doe-eyed Hassan (Manish Dayal), a chef who learned all he knows from his mother...

Annie Hall was supposed to be a murder mystery and a psychological anatomy of Alvy Singer, the first of Woody Allen’s alpha ne...

“I would like to tell you a very strange story—I mean, if you’d be willing to listen to it,” title character Halvard Solness ...

The industrial-strength whine of an unseen engine dominates the opening moments of Land Ho! What could it be? A plane getting...

The recent kidnapping of hundreds of schoolgirls by the terrorist group Boko Haram highlighted many of the problems that are ...

An homage to the beloved older sister cowriter-director Petra Costa lost when she was 7 years old, Elena is a detailed anatomy of...

Part of the fun of movies like To Catch a Thief and Ocean's Eleven is identifying with famous actors playing thieves, thril...

A humanist with a rare sensitivity to the inner lives of children, Lukas Moodysson is one of the best living directors of young people, an...

This documentary by first-time filmmakers feels as rough-edged and sometimes unwieldy as Home Alive, the Seattle collective it do...

Inspired by five suicide bombings that took place on the same day in Casablanca on May 16, 2003, Nabil Ayouch's Horses of God...

The photographers featured throughout Dan Wechsler's More than the Rainbow are a pretty scruffy, competitive bunch, sometimes...

The One I Love, which played at this year's Tribeca Film Festival, is a likeable falling-out-of-love story with a clever but ...

Paolo Virzì's Human Capital, which played at this year's Tribeca Film Festival, gives the tired trope of cutting betwe...

"He thought I was a perfect specimen—except for my height," says Lilith (Florencia Bado) in voiceover, describing the...

Manos Sucias, which screened at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, is the story of two young men from Buenaventura, an impoverished town on ...

Director Alonso Ruiz Palacios is aware enough of his place in Mexican cinema's new wave to include a couple of jarring...

One of the sleekest, slyest and most sneakily subversive of the many brilliant rom-coms that tumbled out of Hollywood in the ‘...

At the end of The Unknown Known , director Errol Morris asks his subject, Donald Rumsfeld, why he agreed to be interviewed. But ...

Talal Derki's Return to Homs is a testament to the power of video to document resistance to corrupt and abusive regimes—in t...

Who is Marty Jackitansky (Joshua Burge), the title character of writer-director Joel Potrykus's darkly funny Buzzard ? H...

I talked to Brooklyn-based filmmaker Rachel Boynton, director of Our Brand is Crisis, about her latest film, Big Men, for The L. ...

I went to The Lunchbox to see Irrfan Khan, that great soul, find his soulmate. Khan’s characters almost never get the girl. In...

The Israel of Bethlehem is a hamster wheel of a world: Everyone keeps running as fast as they can, trying to protect the people ...

Like director Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi, Visitors uses lush cinematography, a nonstop Philip Glass score, and generous lash...

Even the generally feminist screenwriter Garson Kanin and “women’s director” George Cukor patronize their heroine, Gladys Glover...

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 ...