Modestly budgeted little crime film traces the well-worn path of the ex-con who wants to go straight but who veers off under bad influence -- in this case into the unsexy world of corruption in the commuter-rail industry around New York City: bribery, kickbacks, intimidation, and, when necessary, rougher stuff. …
A very long movie of very small events. It starts with a wedding, ends with a funeral, and has a birth in the middle -- the full cycle of life -- in addition to an off-screen suicide attempt, an off-screen murder, and even an eleventh-hour touch of the supernatural. But …
A rarefied chamber piece for a small-town single mom, her pensive little boy, her nomadic no-account brother (their parents, as we're shown in a childhood prologue, were killed in an auto accident, and there's no indication of who filled that role afterwards), her soft-mannered hard-assed new boss at the bank, …