Girls Can Play

Another portrait of a former manufacturing giant hollowed out by the global economy's race to the bottom of the wage scale, ...

A magnificent cherry tree in bloom, the ultimate Japanese symbol for mortality, exudes a striking emotional resonance in The Tale ...

Citizenfour screened on October 10 and 11 at the New York Film Festival. It opens in theaters on October 24. Huddled in a Hong...

Birdman screened on October 11 at the New York Film Festival.  Like the self-serious director in Sullivan’s Travels , Alejand...

From the moment boozy misanthrope Vincent (Bill Murray) agrees to help his new next-door neighbor, struggling single mom Maggie...

Mr. Turner played this weekend at the 52nd New York Film Festival. Sony Classics will release the film theatrically beginning De...

The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga plays October 15-21 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Frequent subtitle...

Timbuktu played at this  year's New York Film Festival. Cohen Media Group will release the film theatrically early next ye...

Time Out of Mind is playing on October 5 and 9 at the New York Film Festival Oren Moverman's Time Out of Mind wants to boo...

Two Days, One Night is playing October 5 and 6 at the New York Film Festival “Uplifting” is one of those words, like “unique” ...

Last Hijack is playing on October 3 at the New York Film Festival. A recent wave of films about Somali pirates cleaves to the...

Whiplash played September 28 and 29 at the New York Film Festival. Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), a teacher at a prestigiou...

The death of Damian Lewis's Nicolas Brody at the end of the last season left Homeland's creators free to reboot, and it...

The Wonders is playing on October 3 and 4 in the New York Film Festival. Alice Rohrwacher returned to her hometown for The Wo...

Misunderstood  is playing on September 27 and 29 in the New York Film Festival. In her directing as in her acting, Asia Argento...

Pride is an act of reverse alchemy, turning something beautiful and rare into depressingly ordinary dreck. In 1984, a handful of...

My Old Lady is basically a three-character play without a single character you can believe in. Mathias Gold (Kevin Kli...

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...

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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...