The Other Side of the Street movie review: Marcos Bernstein’s tale of a one-woman neighborhood watch who may have witnessed a murder is reminiscent of Rear Window, with Fernanda Montenegro…
The Perfect Crime movie review: In Álex de la Iglesia’s black comedy, Guillermo Toledo resorts to desperate measures to rid himself of the blackmailing, sexually insatiable chains of matrimony, as…
The London Film Festival’s Satyajit Ray Award winner, Nicole Kassell’s U.S.-made feature debut The Woodsman chronicles the attempts of a child molester (Kevin Bacon) to resume his life after years…
Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior movie review: Juvenile, reactionary, cliché-ridden martial arts action flick has one good thing going for it: Tony Jaa, a masterful athlete and exceptional fighter who comes…
Entries from 49 countries are in contention for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Yet arcane rules have prevented two well-received non-English-language features starring Gael García Bernal from being even…
Vera Drake movie review: As the title character in Mike Leigh’s working-class family drama, English stage veteran Imelda Staunton delivers a sensational performance in that most difficult of roles: The…
The Devil Strikes at Night movie review: Like Elio Petri’s Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Robert Siodmak’s Nazi Germany-set drama uses a murderer’s actions to point out that the…
The Grandfather movie review: As the titular – irascible, proud, prejudiced – abuelo in José Luis Garci’s period family drama, veteran Fernando Fernán Gómez discovers it’s never too late to…
Best British Films ever made? Directed by Carol Reed from a screenplay by Graham Greene, the iconic British production The Third Man was partly financed by an American company, David…
The new Claude Lelouch film – the widely panned The Parisians – is a box office disaster. In an attempt to rectify the situation, the Oscar-nominated A Man and a…
Venice Festival: Starring Imelda Staunton as a one-woman abortion clinic in 1950s England, Mike Leigh’s abortion drama Vera Drake was this year’s Golden Lion winner; Staunton took home the Best…
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban movie review: Alfonso Cuarón’s hit fantasy about wizards, dementors, and hippogriffs boasts lots of great visual effects, but features precious little cinematic magic.…
Bill Condon’s sex research movie Kinsey is one of the Toronto Film Festival’s eclectic – and at times contentious – entries. Liam Neeson stars as sexologist Alfred Kinsey, whose works…
Operation Thunderbolt movie review: Menahem Golan’s slice of flag-waving propaganda – disguised as a “ripped from the headlines” political thriller – is undoubtedly one of the worst nominees ever for…
9 Songs’ sex scenes have led to censorship concerns in the U.K., but some are now angry that the country’s Keepers of Morals – i.e., the members of the British…
About a Boy movie review: Chris and Paul Weitz’s trendy, trite comedy takes the moral high ground by lecturing audiences that “maturity” equals “commitment,” and that absolutely no man has…
An ongoing controversy surrounding Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Adolf Hitler movie Downfall, starring Bruno Ganz as Der Führer, has at its core the following question: Should modern history’s most hated man be…