Director Shiori Ito’s documents the investigation of her own sexual assault in an attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender. Unfolding like a thriller and combining secret investigative recordings, vérité shooting and emotional first-person video, her quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s outdated judicial and societal systems.
Get ready for the time of your afterlife in this zombie anime.
Boris Karloff! Bela Lugosi! A black cat! Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. Black and white.
Emir Kusturica's dense, distended farce centered around Balkan gypsies, a train robbery, and a barnyard's population of geese, chicks, pigs, dogs, besides the titular felines. Lighter than Kusturica's Underground, but indigestible in proportion, nevertheless. Impressive, a little, in its consistent texture and tone.
More than ten years and $25 million in the making, and at those figures, rather a large disappointment. The Disney studio's attempt in the Eighties to reassert itself in the animation field seems to have an eye as much on George Lucas and Steven Spielberg as on Pinocchio or Peter …
There's no place like a multiplex with a serial killer movie for the holidays.
A series of obscene phone calls start to plague the residents of the sorority and it becomes clear that a psychopath is homing in on the sisters with dubious intentions. And though the police try to trace the calls, they discover that nothing is as it seems during this Black …
James Ellroy's theory of the case -- the unsolved murder, disembowelment, and bisection of Hollywood wannabe Elizabeth Short in 1947 -- as expounded in 325 dense pages of fiction, fitted on screen into the film noir boilerplate: the laconic first-person narration of a two-fisted cop (Josh Hartnett), the moody solo …
A cobblestone tale of one of the world’s most caustic times: England, circa 1348. The filmmaking is undeniably modern: shaky, handheld camerawork, jump-cut editing, stuttering slow motion. The connection to the 14th-century epidemic is rather derivative. Director Christopher Smith seems more concerned with making a bloody mess of things. At …
Oilman Paul Sturges (Josh Lucas) takes his family out to a Mexican coastal town to visit his pride and joy. An oil rig. But when they arrive the once vibrant town is a shadow of its former self. Word of the town is that the drilling has awakened a giant …
A group of friends reunite for a Juneteenth weekend getaway, only to find themselves trapped in a remote cabin with a twisted killer who forces them to play by his rules. Directed by Tim Story, starring Grace Byers, Jermaine Fowler, Melvin Gregg, X Mayo, Dewayne Perkins, and Antoinette Robertson.
A group of friends reunite for a Juneteenth weekend getaway, only to find themselves trapped in a remote cabin with a twisted killer who forces them to play by his rules. Directed by Tim Story, starring Grace Byers, Jermaine Fowler, Melvin Gregg, X Mayo, Dewayne Perkins, and Antoinette Robertson.
Is director Gabriela Cowperthwaite's documentary an indictment of SeaWorld's use of killer whales as modern-day circus lions, despite the physical and psychic toll that captivity takes on the creatures? Or is it an indictment of SeaWorld's apparent willingness to put its trainers in the water with animals it knows to …
Ousmane Sembene's slim, lithe tale of a Senegalese maid who emigrates to France to take a position in a bourgeois apartment, and who, her optimism dimmed by the cloistered drudgery, stages a rebellion that takes the form of moodiness and indolence. To make clear the causes for complaint and cultural …