The story is painfully straightforward: a nine-year-old English girl named Amy Winehouse is devastated when Dad breaks up with Mum. She takes up with boys, dabbles in drink and drugs, develops an eating disorder, and begins the slide toward disaster. What makes it noteworthy are the girl's incredible talents, both …

Sachy writes and directs a tale of a daring diving instructor, starring Prithviraj Sukumaran. In Malayalam.

Once upon a time, they called classical music "long-haired" stuff. This guy remembers that.

“Is it better not to live than to live and suffer?” Don’tcha hate it when a character, in this case a scraggly Columbia University professor (Sam Waterston), breaks the ice by spelling out a film’s thesis? Suffer we do as a cast of top name performers (Glenn Close, Kristen Stewart, …

Writer and co-director Charlie Kaufman’s stop-motion animated film is a very fine portrait of the despair at the heart of a comfortable middle-aged white man in America circa right about now. British-born Michael Stone (voiced with great sympathy by David Thewlis) has, by most standards, made it. He lives in …

82-year-old Claude Lorius was the first scientist to alert the world to the perils of global warming. His one regret in life is that history has proved him right. A biographical, cinematic corollary of Al Gore’s canned Learning Annex lecture, Luc Jacquet’s Antarctica condenses 22 polar missions — all told, …

The coming-of-age story that enveloped all of Japan in emotion! A girl has her voice taken away so that she will not hurt others with her words, but the discovery of music and friendship change her perspective.

Fans can expect to cry uncle over the diminishing returns Stan Lee’s funny papers studio puts forth in this nothing-to-marvel-at stinker. Not even the special effects can save it. In long shot, and with the CG work such as it is, Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) looks to be an emulsion scratch …

Sean Bean plays a sobered-up bruiser just out of the joint after doing time for second-degree murder. While living with his sister and helping out with her little boy, he takes a shine to Eva Longoria. Things appear to be looking up! But when you're Sean Bean, trouble is never …

Moisés Ortiz Urquidi's tale of a family full of excellent women and their dealings with less-than-excellent men. In Spanish.

The story of Arcade Fire's album Reflektor, from conception to recording to performance. Because rock's not dead. Right?

Kai (Gael Garcia Bernal), a recondite man who utters almost as many lines of dialog as there are letters in his name, comes to the aid of a farmer and his family up against a gang of conscienceless varmints. This standard western scenario was enough to sustain dozens of features …

A celebration of Argentinian music and dance.

A happily married pair of Argentinian cowpokes fight to keep the tradition of the gaucho alive in director Tato Moreno's maiden documentary.

In a word, stunning. After an eight-year absence, world cinema’s foremost aesthete, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, returns with a vengeance. Shu Qi, Director Hou’s leading lady of choice, stars as a 9th-century enforcer, taught to kill by the nun who raised her and later contracted to take out her former husband-to-be. Viewers …