Foreign film in the ever-popular peasant genre, with the ever-popular weaknesses of sentimentalizing and ennobling the subject. This time the peasants are a family of Inner Mongolians in a French-Russian co-production originally titled Urga (as in "Did you tie that red flag on my urga?"). Apart from the urga itself …
Academy Award nominee Elliot Page stars as a trans man who returns to his hometown for the first time in years. On his journey, he confronts his relationship with his family, reunites with a first love, and discovers a newfound confidence in himself.
Abbas Kiarostami, always gravitating toward the province of documentary, here goes further than usual, though perhaps not all the way to the very last toe. The film chronicles true events, the arrest and trial of an imposter who had insinuated himself into a middle-class home in the guise of Kiarostami's …
20 years after the film he was directing fell apart when the leading man (José Coronado) disappeared, Miguel (Manolo Solo) agrees to reopen the mystery for a TV show. He needs the money, and he's ready for a reckoning.
The Wachowski Manifesto, or maybe just their apologia. Together with co-director Tom Tykwer, the W siblings have taken David Mitchell's multi-story, mutli-genre novel and made it into one (very) long and earnest plea for individual freedom and dignity in the face of oppression, whether it's gays oppressed by polite society, …
Writer-director Olivier Assayas (Demonlover) puts Juliette Binoche on the rack as an actress coming to grips with the ravages and passages of time. She plays Maria Enders, a grande dame who came to fame by playing a brash young thing who seduces and then abandons her (female) boss. At a …
The potential of crumbling limestone landscapes poses a geological threat to the mountainous region of an age-old Chinese town — and the high speed railroad that runs through it. What separates Cloudy Mountain from Hollywood disaster films of yore? Not much. Cliffhangers, rock climbers, stowaways, pointless time-stamps designed to add …
From Sony Animation comes this animated sci-fi adventure comedy featuring the voices of James Caan, Al Roker, and Mr. T.
aka Sequel with a Chance of Cash-In. Plus food puns. Lots of food puns. Tacodile Supreme is cute, though.
Vindication for the grainy, jiggly image of the handheld camcorder, the mockumentarist’s best friend and a corner-cutting, cost-cutting device for any purpose. The premise — the excuse — is the making of a video souvenir at the going-away party for a Manhattan yuppie, the night before his departure to a …
A fading midwestern town is terrorized by Frendo the clown, a symbol of bygone success. Directed by Eli Craig, starring Katie Douglas, Carson MacCormac, and Aaron Abrams.
An enchanting start -- a child rises from bed to watch the hoisting of a circus tent below his window in the dawn light. The delicate mood there is soon flattened under an avalanche of Fellini-isms -- parades, painted faces, slapstick, bathos, oily color, and the director's uncurbed exhibitionism.
Documentary from Chris Cashman on Tijuana's Xolos soccer team and its impact on the city.