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Film Review: Last Train Home
Sobering documentary examines the plight of migrant workers in China, as seen through the problems of the Zhang family. More »
Film Review: Who Is Harry Nilsson (and Why is Everybody Talkin' About Him?)
This rich portrait of a most complex artist beautifully, movingly and humorously explains the enigma, glory and tragedy of his life. More »
Film Review: Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1
Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1, part two of the riveting true-life crime saga, is every bit as engaging as its just-released, high-performing predecessor. Vincent Cassel’s remarkable performance and action-packed filmmaking assure impressive numbers on specialized screens and maybe beyond. More »
Film Review: Our Beloved Month of August
A mesmerizing intermingling of life and art, fact and fiction. More »
Film Review: White Wedding
This African wedding romp tries like hell to be rambunctious fun, but is weighed down by clichés. More »
Film Review: Prince of Broadway
Urban immigrants sympathetically struggle to attain an approximation of the American Dream. More »
Film Review: Clear Blue Tuesday
Theatre-inspired and cast-workshopped musical about several New Yorkers' lives in the wake of 9/11 is well-intentioned but off-off-off-off-Broadway. More »
Film Review: Max Manus
Solid and convincing, if pedestrian, World War II story that has its moments. More »
Film Review: My Dog Tulip
An adult cartoon about a middle-aged man and his dog aims for, and for the most part achieves, wit and whimsy. More »
Film Review: Change of Plans
Veteran writer-director Danièle Thompson corrals some run-of-the-mill Parisian bourgeois characters for a dinner party. While not as tedious as such off-screen gatherings can be, the light cinematic menu served here offers little more than a confusing pot au feu of guests and their problems. More »
Film Review: Highwater
This surfing documentary plays like a more intimate, folksy companion piece to its superior predecessor, Step into Liquid. More »
Film Review: The Milk of Sorrow
An affecting, gracefully crafted Peruvian film that struggles to breathe under the weight of too much allegory and symbolism. More »
Film Review: A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
A recent Berlin Film Festival official selection, Zhang Yimou’s period remake of the Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple directorial debut is another visual triumph from the celebrated Chinese director, but quirky eye candy of superficial comic-book proportions can go only so far with art-house crowds. More »
Film Review: The Army of Crime
Impressive recreation of World War II French Resistance movement, marked by a deep humanity and piercing intelligence. More »
Film Review: Mao's Last Dancer
Conventionally made but involving true story of what happens when a sheltered Chinese ballet student gets his first exposure to the West. More »
Film Review: Hiding Divya
Intimate indie about a disaffected desi in Edison, N.J., who with her 16-year-old daughter must face her own mother's ever-more-evident mental illness. More »
Film Review: A Film Unfinished
Harrowing Nazi footage of the Warsaw ghetto is made to reveal more than its makers intended in this historically invaluable documentary. More »
Film Review: Neshoba: The Price of Freedom
Excellent documentary corrective to Mississippi Burning-type melodramas. More »
Film Review: Centurion
Neil Marshall reaffirms his status as a contemporary “King of the B’s” with another straight-up genre flick that’s low on budget but high on fun. More »
Film Review: Soul Kitchen
Disarming tale of the wild struggles of a Hamburg restaurant owner is a buoyant change of pace from director Fatih Akin. More »
Film Review: The Tillman Story
One of the year’s most important films, magnificently stirring proof that there are forms of heroism which go far beyond those officially sanctioned by the so-called powers-that-be. More »
Film Review: Making Plans for Lena
This study of a difficult woman, without a truly electrifying actress in the role, never catches fire. More »
Film Review: La Soga
This emptily callous film tries to be an edgy expose of the Dominican criminal world, but plays more like a particularly juvenile game of shoot-’em-up. More »
Film Review: Salt of This Sea
Interesting thesis film about the Palestinian longing for their homeland. Dramatically, a dud. More »
Film Review: Animal Kingdom
Gripping Australian crime drama that charts the slow unraveling of a family bound together by violence through the eyes of a teenage nephew unexpectedly thrust into their midst. More »
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