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Sam Elliott’s sonorous, gravelly voice demands attention, almost regardless of what he’s saying. The Hero demonstrate…

Admirable without actually being very good, Demetri Martin’s debut as a writer-director, Dean, makes a smart…

It’s been 20 years since the Buena Vista Social Club album made Cuban music a crossover sensation in the U.S. (for…

On paper, The Commune sounds like a potentially great idea. Director Thomas Vinterberg’s career can charitably be…

Hollywood and East L.A. are only about 12 miles apart, yet the former pays remarkably little attention to the…

Like one of Aesop’s fables, A Woman’s Life­ presents its moral at the end, via the very last line of dialogue. “You…

As Joe Denton, the hapless ex-cop/ex-con protagonist of Small Crimes, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau wears a thick goatee…

Most found-footage horror films owe a sizable debt to The Blair Witch Project, but few have aped the genre’s…

Early in the Polish quasi-documentary All These Sleepless Nights, the film’s young subject-protagonist, Krzysztof…

Movies about gamblers are fun. Movies about reformed gamblers, on the other hand, tend to put the viewer in the…

Already the fourth-highest-grossing film ever in its home country of Japan (trailing Spirited Away, Titanic, and Froz…

Intensive research has killed many a biopic, but Cézanne Et Moi, which recounts the tempestuous lifelong friendship…

Set mostly in 1977, with recurring flashbacks to events that took place three decades earlier, Dig Two Graves goes…

When Nora Ephron decided to remake Ernst Lubitsch’s 1940 classic The Shop Around The Corner, she chose to update the…

Despite a title that suggests impending resolution, The Sense Of An Ending starts testing the viewer’s patience—very…

When I first pitched Scenic Routes, back in the summer of 2009, one of my big selling points was the idea’s sheer…

The obliviously obnoxious man-child has become such a familiar comic figure that creating anything innovative along…

It’s not at all clear why the protagonist of My Life As A Zucchini—a French-Swiss stop-motion film that’s one of…

Resolved: Split screen is an underutilized cinematic device.

With so much media attention being paid to the court battles involving President Trump’s travel ban, his…