Or, The Ballad of Poor Jean. Story of a wealthy Brazilian family in free-fall, focusing mainly on the teenage son. Directed and cowritten by Fellipe Barbosa.
A Pakistani girl hides out in West Yorkshire with her boyfriend, who is not Pakistani. Her brother and some of his associates arrive in town to seek her out, much to her alarm. Directed and co-written by Daniel Wolfe.
Michael Pena stars as the founder of the United Farm Workers farm labor union.
The last temptation of Cesar Chavez, tireless crusader against a farm labor system that treats its workers like dirt, as presented through rare documentary footage and the partisan eyes of friends and family members. In July of 1988, the then 65-year-old head of United Farm Workers Union embarked on a …
Very light French foodie comedy, seasoned with a touch of romance, that never quite boils over into farce. The ingredients are utterly traditional — gifted nobody (a sweetly sincere Michael Youn) who needs a break, aging master (a comfortable Jean Reno) worried about his career in a world of changing …
A real-life international espionage thriller centered around the eight days that filmmaker Laura Poitras, journalists Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill, and NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden spent in a Hong Kong hotel room while the NSA domestic surveillance story broke. It provides a rare experience: as Poitras has put it, “the …
Thanks to Citizens United, when money talks, it's a form of protected speech. Or something. Corporations are people, too!
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 …
A hard-working family man (Michael C. Hall, given a distinct mullet and Billy Bob Thornton makeover) kills an unarmed home invader only to face exacted terrible retribution from the boy’s recently paroled psycho-daddy (Sam Shepherd). Cape Fear meets 8mm in this thriller that never quite wrenches the gut enough to …
A single marriage stands in for a national tragedy. When director Yimou Zhang took on The Rape of Nanking in The Flowers of War, he proportioned the look and feel of his film to the event: florid, unrestrained, unsubtle as a bayonet to the crotch. Here, he's treating China's cultural …
Crispin Glover is good at being odd. So good that they let him make a movie about it.
A Tollywood remake of 2013 Tamil film Varuthapadatha Valibar Sangam, featuring former porn star Sunny Leone.
The title is Australia’s slang equivalent to the American phrase “batshit crazy,” and ex-con Pommie (Sullivan Stapleton) earns the appellation in spades. He’s the kind of friend you want to hide the box cutter from when he suddenly decides to pay an unannounced visit. Fresh out of the slammer, Pommie …