A documentary reminiscent of The Big Short on a smaller and less-successful scale, director Ted Braun’s Betting on Zero has a narrow focus and an unlikely hero:...
Horror anthologies are here to stay, with the V/H/S and ABCs of Death series, and Michael Dougherty's more cohesive Trick 'r Treat offering fans fun-size bits o...
Following in the vein of last year’s excellent Ballet 422, First Monday In May offers another process-heavy view into the preparation of a prestigious event. T...
There are worse reasons to make a movie than advocacy, but Malcom B. Lee’s Barbershop: The Next Cut feels so distractingly reverse-engineered from its talking ...
Shot over a three-year period in Brooklyn, All This Panic offers a frequently disjointed look at the interior lives of several ordinary, middle-class Brooklynit...
For its combination of rocking performances from famous musicians (the line-up included St. Vincent, tUnE-yArDs, Nelly Furtado, and Byrne himself), the dazzling...
Writer-director Nicolas Steiner’s graduation film has nothing to do about moving on to new stages of life. Above and Below, his dramatized documentary, rather h...
My Big Night tells you what it is right up front: big with a capital "B," a maximalist extravaganza satirizing the day-to-day life on a show business set that h...
Advances in digital technology have now given filmmakers the chance to do things that would have been impossible just a decade ago. With this bold new power com...
If, within art cinema, there comes the instant gravitation to less the film than the name -- the all-powerful auteur that supposedly doesn’t have to bow down to...
