Dennis Harvey

"Taken" meets "The Bourne Identity" in "Erased," a familiar but energetic and entertaining actioner that has rolled into numerous territories since last August under the title "The Expatriate." Aaron Eckhart...

"When I Walk" is Jason DaSilva's video-diary portrait of his own struggles with multiple sclerosis, which struck without warning when he was 25 and has drastically reduced his physical abilities...

The playful mixture of fantasy superheroics and real-world teen angst that floated culty graphic-novel-derived films "Kick-Ass" and "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" translates more unevenly to the stage in Dan...

The first spawn of a German co-sponsored training/production program started after the success of Tom Tykwer and Hawa Essuman's "Soul Boy," Kenya's Oscar submission "Nairobi Half Life" is a lively...

A very Gallic kind of moody character drama, "Crawl" treads familiar waters in depicting a hesitant romance between two loners as contrasted with another couple's marital woes in a cash-strapped...

Offering a slightly fantastical plague scenario not unlike "Blindness," "The Cleaner" exchanges that book-to-film's large canvas and graphic societal collapse with something austere and intimate. The story of a middle-aged...

Like "The Kite Runner," Sofi Oksanen's novel "Purge" found international success by recounting recent historical traumas -- in this case, contemporary Russian-mafia sex-trafficking, plus the brutal Soviet takeover of Estonia...

The wide stylistic and thematic terrain trod by today's creators of comics (indicated by the relatively new, more serious-minded category "graphic novel") is glimpsed in "Cartoon College." But the focus...

Competition docu "Ping Pong" follows eight players from around the globe as they participate in an international summit: The difference is that this is table tennis for seniors, with octogenarians...

The wide stylistic and thematic terrain trod by today's creators of comics (indicated by the relatively new, more serious-minded category "graphic novel") is glimpsed in "Cartoon College." But the focus...