A woman sings a light melody about a little violet flower, a beautiful little object that receives an untimely end from an old woman who fails to notice it and ...
Whenever a director from the outskirts of world or avant-garde cinema decides to work in anything remotely resembling Hollywood, you can count on tremors of fea...
After making one of the most authentically emotional films of his career with A Dangerous Method, David Cronenberg has begun exploring the world of artificialit...
There is an unspoken emptiness that hangs boldly over Foxcatcher, which is sure to be one of the subtly darkest films made by a major Hollywood studio this year...
The one thing a biopic should make no business of is that the character at its center is important. Great films have been made from the least-important people i...
Every Frederick Wiseman film begins with a parable that defines, as a whole, the institution on which it will focus, and one practical that defines its tension....
While there are plenty of drinks, drugs, and women in Welcome to New York, there is no pop soundtrack, no swerving camera movements, no dazzling cross edits, no...
There is something odd about the way Hilary Swank moves in The Homesman, the second film directed by Tommy Lee Jones after The Three Burials of Melquiades Estra...
The hotel at the center of the drama in Winter Sleep -- both the newest film from Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan and sure to be one of the most-beloved titl...
Aggressively stupid when it’s not downright illogical, it is hard to imagine a film less deserving for a competition slot at this year’s Cannes Film Festival th...
