The lead Holocaust contender in this year’s awards derby is more stallion than nag. When a denier levels a lawsuit against her publisher, it’s up to author and historian Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz) to prove the existence of the Holocaust. The first film in 14 years from director Mick Jackson …
The film opens on a telling moment: a mistress gives her domestic Teresa (Paulina Garcia) a manicure so that her mitts might look spectacular when they receive their owner’s walking papers. We know very little about Teresa except that she has killer nails and a desperate desire to recover a …
What happens when a van containing a group of hopeful border-jumpers breaks down a few miles outside of Tijuana? Nothing we haven’t seen in dozens other well intentioned cautionary fables. Never mind revenge or collecting a bounty: the only motivation the screenwriters endow cartoon bad guy Jeffrey Dean Morgan with …
It was Werner Herzog who sparked festival organizer (and director of this doc) Stuart Swezey’s vision. If Fitzcarraldo could bring an opera to a jungle, what’s stopping Swezey from staging an industrial music concert in the middle of the Mojave? The Desolation Center happenings began in an abandoned warehouse in …
After what appears to have been two decades spent sleeping face down on a power sander, martyred Detective Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman) awakens to the harsh light of day and decides to take control of her rebellious daughter while also making amends for an undercover job gone bad. In The …
From Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, the team that brought you Jesus Camp, comes another cable-ready documentary content to skim the surface. Detroit is the fastest shrinking city in the United States; the population has reached its lowest point in 100 years. We follow several locals - a video blogger, …
Just because you’ve never heard of someplace doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Take unincorporated Knockemstiff, Ohio, the setting for several of the acts of venality and vile affections that litter the film’s 138-minute running time. With its depiction of soldiers bringing the violence of war back home with them, The …
“What happened to us?” It’s a question that many long-married couples don’t prepare for yet nonetheless has a custom of creeping up on them. Seldom has it been couched in tones of disgust charged with self-loathing and regret than when posed by Beatriz (Sylvia Pasquel). The object of her abjection …
The Devil Inside is a midget racer in the exorcism derby. Requisite amounts of profanity spewing hoodoos, demons dancing on the ceiling, bodies with more twists than a Bavarian pretzel factory, and a Dolby-juiced house pet leaping from out of nowhere to remind viewers that it’s a scary movie we’re …
No sooner did producer Todd Bruce discover a distant relation to naturalist Edward Alphonso Goldman than he employed the services of daughter Bri (associate producer) and son J.T. (director) to create a modern day, two month variation on the expedition his great grandfather and partner Edward William Nelson made through …
With war poised to crush Sri Lanka, a trio of Tamilian strangers assume the identities of a dead family and flee to France, only to discover that a different type of civil unrest awaits. The adults find work, as custodian and caretaker, respectively, in a gang-controlled housing project; the rebellious …
Elizabeth Carroll’s name appears just below “Directed By,” when her credit should read, “Keeping Pace With a 90-Year-Old Activist, Author, and Honorable Foodie by.” Who knew the world’s foremost authority on regional Mexican cuisine was a white British lady? Diana Kennedy is a recipe catcher, traveling the backroads of Mexico, …
It’s a martyred life for Diane (Mary Kay Place): every day is an endless succession of windshields and brief layovers with sick friends and relatives. The reason Diane pays daily, unannounced visits to her son Brian’s (Jake Lacy) apartment isn’t so much that she’s a pest — though there is …
After an incident involving wimpy kid Greg (Jason Drucker) and a dirty diaper goes viral, the red-faced lad takes to the road in the backseat of his parents’ car in this family-friendly alternative to National Lampoon’s Vacation. Director Thor Freudenthal was the first to adapt one of Jeff Kinney’s tales …