Movie Reviews & Stories If Red Hook Summer, the latest slice of Brooklyn life from director Spike Lee, feels structurally unsound, that’s because the film is built atop a fairly weak foundation. As the movie begins,    More

Movie Reviews & Stories Christophe Honoré’s moody, multigenerational musical Beloved begins as a winkingly sex-positive romp in which the ’60s seem a wonderful time to buy clothing, and prostitution is promoted as a   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Generally speaking, inviting a guy who goes by the name “Killer Joe” into your home is a spectacularly unwise idea. Then again, the characters populating this unhinged slice of depravity fro   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Here is Australian director John Hillcoat’s idea of a good time: A Prohibition-era period piece about a real-life clan of Virginia bootleggers, in which throats are slashed with knives and crush   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Fernando Meirelles’ leap into the world-cinema scene, 2002’s City of God, had more velocity than substance, but at least it was going someplace. Since then, the Brazilian director’s conscien   More

Movie Reviews & Stories A crucial moment in David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis involves Robert Pattinson’s dead-eyed, 28-year-old billionaire casually bending over in the backseat of his...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Were it not for the footage of news reports edited into the film, as well as the raft of information out there on the disappearance of 13-year-old Texan Nicholas Barclay back in 1994, you might    More

Movie Reviews & Stories It’s a disservice to judge 2 Days in New York by the same standards we would its prequel, 2007’s 2 Days in Paris. Paris saw Marion (writer-director Julie Delpy) introducing her neurotic boyfri   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Norman Babcock sees dead people. As the title portmanteau of ParaNorman—the second feature from Portland animation house Laika...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Gaining an appreciable level of success outside of one’s home country is not an unusual feat. Just ask Alela Diane, a local singer-songwriter who can fill huge theaters in France while still f   More