published on Apr. 15, 2015 1am
Robert Kenner’s new documentary portrays the methods and madness of right-wing propagandists who seek to discredit climate change.
published on Mar. 25, 2015 1am
Deli Man is a nostalgic celebration of a once-ubiquitous urban culinary institution in America: the Jewish delicatessen.
published on Mar. 20, 2015 2pm
If any present-day nation deserves to have its politics satirized, Italy must be near the top of the list. The country often seems never to have achieved full nation-state status since Garibaldi’s nineteenth-century uprising.
published on Mar. 13, 2015 3pm
In a way, the biggest surprise about the new live-action Cinderella is that it took the Disney organization 65 years to put out a second movie version.
published on Mar. 11, 2015 1am
If the pathways to a career as an opera singer were as fraught with nearly crippling difficulty and heartache as the one that lays before the subject of the appealing and entertaining biopic One Chance, the state of grand opera would be even more uncertain than it already is,...
published on Feb. 24, 2015 3pm
Leviathan renders an appalling portrait of life in a remote corner of Russia’s northwest.
published on Feb. 10, 2015 3pm
If Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, the veteran Belgian filmmaking brothers, thought that casting Marion Cotillard, the Oscar-winning French actress (for her portrayal of Édith Piaf in La Vie en Rose), would enhance their prospects for a foreign-film Academy Award nomination of their...
published on Jan. 28, 2015 7am
In the current climate of racial controversies, Black or White’s story of a familial dispute generated by racial differences could have benefited from its inadvertent timeliness. Sadly, it doesn’t bring much to the table.
published on Jan. 12, 2015 2pm
Selma has earned a place among the very few respectable and involving American movie treatments of historical characters, forces, and events.
published on Dec. 24, 2014 12am
Angelina Jolie’s film is a chronicle of fear and pain.
