Dennis Harvey

An innocuous midlife romantic comedy set over the course of a few hours, "At Middleton" Andy Garcia and Vera Farmiga as two parents brought together as they tour a prospective...

A newcomer's arrival exposes and eventually implodes a lighthouse keeper's tyrannical rule over his wife and children in "The Disciple." Second feature from Finnish director Ulrika Bengts (following 2011's "Iris,"...

Veteran actress-turned-writer-director Nicole Garcia's "Going Away" is a fine little drama in the best French tradition of intimate yet ambivalent character observation, in which unexpectedly crossed paths turn out to...

Daniele Luchetti's "Those Happy Years" is another flashback to the roiling Italian 1970s of his youth, though this time the family conflicts are more vulnerable to the vagaries of art...

Twee, sentimental and boisterous in ways that might as well have followed official Scottish Tourist Board guidelines, "Sunshine on Leith" is a stage-to-screen jukebox musical that some will find irresistible,...

A rural orphan's journey in search of his godfather in the big city drives "Port Father," Costa Rican writer-director Gustavo Fallas' mostly downbeat yet agreeable first feature. Surefooted if modest...

After several shorts, Austrian helmer Martin Kren got horror fans' attention with 2010's hourlong "Rammbock," a sufficiently offbeat and character-focused spin on the zombie-siege formula. He makes a competent transition...

While perhaps best-known now for his bottomless wellspring of wackjob theories -- most recently alleging that San Francisco gays deliberately spread AIDS via sharpened, blood-bearing finger rings -- Southern Baptist...

Serviceable but uninspired, this latest version of Emile Zola's much-adapted 1867 novel "Therese Raquin" sends its characters to their doom on schedule without stirring much sense of tragedy or emotional...

A fitting memorial to Elmore Leonard (who died last month and is an executive producer here), "Life of Crime" reps one of the most faithful of the many adaptations of...