This Is Where I Leave You is Franny and Zooey meets The Big Chill. Before one starts throwing accusations of hyperbole, hold on a second and let me explain. Jon...
What Still Alice posits on the most basic level about its title character’s decline is profoundly counterintuitive. Highly intelligent people, Alice’s doctor su...
Depending on your attitude, the 5-hour, 38-minute length of Lav Diaz’s From What Is Before might represent a handicap in its favor, or a demerit. A certain stri...
Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case is a rare and intimate perspective on the artist and political figure. Directed by Andreas Johnsen, the documentary follows the globall...
There are at least two problems with the phrase “self-discovery”: a) the idea that discovering the self is a discrete act; b) the idea that the self is a discre...
Despite an opening suggesting we’re in for a meticulous modern Western, The Frontier, directed by Matt Rabinowitz, embodies the mood, atmosphere and longing fou...
A teenage girl, captured through a static wide shot, runs through a quaint Detroit suburb, her body dwarfed by its trees and middle-class homes. The sense that ...
La Sapienza opens with a montage of Italy’s greatest architectural wonders -- cathedrals, domes, churches, and more shot in perfect lighting, propelled to grand...
Writer/director David Oelhoffen has a special film on his hands because it's powerful tale begs audience members to learn more about the subject. I'm not talkin...
I’ll bet Laura Wade’s 2010 play Posh is something special to see on stage. A fictionalized take on Oxford University’s exclusive Bullingdon Club, it’s debaucher...
