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Film Review: Windfall
Documentary about a quiet upstate New York farm town shaken and divided by some not always dirty and sneaky players in the burgeoning, highly profitable industrial wind-turbine industry is not just the genre at its most revealing but category 5-level entertainment. More »
Film Review: The Innkeepers
Two slackers becalmed in dead-end jobs at a rambling, supposedly haunted Connecticut inn decide to play ghost hunter in this shaggy-dog story with a sharp little sting in its tail. More »
Film Review: Kill List
What starts out looking like a convincingly grubby but unexceptional U.K. crime picture takes an eleventh-hour detour into way spookier territory: Audiences willing to go with it are in for a real treat. More »
Film Review: Perfect Sense
A strong candidate for the most nauseating film of the year, in every sense. More »
Film Review: W.E.
Madonna has fashioned quite an entertainingly fancy bauble of an ultimate chick flick, especially in her striking, glamorous evocation of the legendary Windsor romance. More »
Film Review: Albert Nobbs
Handsome period drama about a late-19th-century woman who successfully poses as a male waiter in a proper Irish hotel is a visual treat, but too reticent in conveying the emotions and motivations that would bring this cross-dressing character to life. More »
Film Review: After Fall, Winter
Drama about a failed and depressed “Ugly American” New York writer attempting some kind of regeneration in Paris follows its “hero” into degeneracy. More »
Film Review: All's Well Ends Well 2012
Couples face romantic problems and occasional jokes in the latest entry in a long-running Hong Kong series. More »
Film Review: Declaration of War
Flawed yet alluring, this autobiographical disease drama should win over many viewers. More »
Film Review: How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?
Rich, revealing U.K./Spanish documentary about world-renowned, prolific British industrial architect Norman Foster—as productive and creative as he is inspirational—could attract legions of young people to the profession just as it enlightens older “civilians” to the beauty and function of architecture in a new, more demanding century. More »
Film Review: Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston
Although at times this reads as much as a silly vanity project as a documentary, the subject matter is so compelling and entertaining that it almost does the great, brilliant and tragic fashion designer Halston justice. More »
Film Review: Coriolanus
Director and star Ralph Fiennes' modern-day version of one of Shakespeare's less familiar plays charts the rise and fall of a Roman general whose martial skills fail to prepare him for the blood sport of politics and features powerhouse performances across the board. More »
Film Review: The Viral Factor
Action trumps plot in Hong Kong director Dante Lam's latest thriller about brothers fighting the release of a mutant smallpox virus. More »
Film Review: Carol Channing: Larger Than Life
Enjoyable, endearing portrait of a true Broadway icon. More »
Film Review: Watching TV with the Red Chinese
Small yet highly affecting and well-observed slice of New York life, which says more about living there than many more grandiose efforts. More »
Film Review: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
Deeply impressive and disturbing exposé of what went terribly wrong with one hopeful post-War American housing experience. More »
Film Review: The City Dark
Documentary on the dangers of artificial light alternates between quirky and profound. More »
Film Review: Crazy Horse
Perhaps hypnotized by all the nubile flesh on view, this documentary about Paris’ Crazy Horse cabaret starts off slowly but, although overlong for what it is, manages to gain some interest in its focus on the backstage energy. More »
Film Review: The Divide
Won’t divide audiences, who will band together against this repellent post-apocalyptic thriller. More »
Film Review: Sing Your Song
As presented here, the epic, inspiring life of miraculously tireless star and activist Harry Belafonte is enough to make any of us feel like lazy bums, and should be screened at Occupy events the world over. More »
Film Review: Domain
Beatrice Dalle continues to intrigue in this provocative tale of a young man and his alluring aunt. More »
Film Review: Man on a Mission: Richard Garriot's Road to the Stars
Timid documentary tags along on a man’s $30 million ride into space without probing deep enough to provoke awe, insight or emotional involvement. More »
Film Review: Beneath the Darkness
The best way to consider this wayward mess is as an unintentional genre spoof. More »
Film Review: Miss Bala
Mexico’s official Oscar entry for best foreign-language film presents startling iconography with its star, Stephanie Sigman, emblematic of the country’s current problems of drug cartels and weapons trafficking, and the violence which is destroying its people. More »
Film Review: Loosies
“Loosies” are what you call single cigarettes you can buy in New York bodegas, and that is about all you’ll really learn from this strenuously rambunctious effort. More »
Film Review: Roadie
Terrific contemporary drama about a veteran Queens, New York roadie who’s been sacked after decades hauling equipment for Blue Oyster Cult is a gripping portrait of a flawed loser that allows Ron Eldard to shine. More »
Film Review: Norwegian Wood
A seductive if uneven attempt to bring to the screen a cult novelist's vision of young love. More »
Film Review: The Hunter
Minimalist, impeccably crafted drama from Iran fails to deliver a satisfying payoff. More »
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