There’s a moment in Neil Jordan’s Byzantium when the strange family unit — mother Clara, daughter Eleanor, and new “boyfriend” Noel — watch what seems to be an ...
When the cellist of a world-renowned string quartet discovers early onset Parkinson's is taking away the dexterity needed to continue playing, the will of the e...
Adapted from the 2008 novel by Margaret Mazzantini of the same name, Twice Born (Venuto al mondo) isn't quite what it seems. When an aged Italian woman named Ge...
It may be weird to think, but there's no better medium than film to transport an audience into the world of the blind. A character in Andrzej Jakimowski's Imagi...
There is nothing more important to a teenager than everything. It's the sly trick when making a high school movie: the stakes are already built in. That's why y...
Retaining the gritty authenticity of his lyrically heartbreaking Blue Valentine, Derek Cianfrance's new insanely ambitious look into the nature versus nurture e...
How fitting, in a year that has seen a restored version of Sergio Leone’s embattled, multigenerational gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America, that a new, Le...
A Noah Baumbach film through and through, I can't help but praise lead actress and co-writer Greta Gerwig's influence in making Frances Ha the quirky, subtly hi...
Almost before the light beings to flicker from the projector, Kirsten Dunst's Regan utters "Things have been going really well." In great comedic fashion, not o...
