What would you do if you woke up one morning to find sand in your bed? You haven’t gone to the beach and you didn’t do anything at night besides dream a ver...
The name Michael R. Roskam may become very familiar around cinematic circles—possibly as soon as next spring. Beating out all other accomplished filmmakers ...
The first two-thirds or so of Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon a Time in Anatolia -- his first film since 2008's Three Monkeys, which earned him a Best Directo...
The most striking emotion you experience watching Tahrir, the cinéma vérité-styled documentary directed and filmed by Stefano Savona, is joy. And not just w...
Whether it takes place in 1984 or 2011, the Footloose premise will never be plausible. No matter how small the place, I can’t wrap my head around a town cou...
If one would only view the first 15 minutes of Machine Gun Preacher, they would probably figure they're about to endure a sappy Lifetime movie; for good rea...
In its 49th year, the New York Film Festival boasts a wide-array of striking and rightfully heralded cinema, including several foreign-language Oscar hopefuls. ...
Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret feels both incomplete and uncut. What lives on the screen arrives like the bullet points of a much larger, much grander, impossi...
Jonathan Levine's 50/50 has all of the makings of a heartstring-tugging melodrama. That it ends up being a better-than-average blend of comedy and drama -- ...
