Dennis Harvey

The "Most Appealing Movie With the Least Appealing Subject" prize on the festival circuit in recent months has surely been owned by "The Creeping Garden," an improbably delightful documentary about...

Jennifer Connelly and Anthony Mackie play very different unfortunates who find each other on the streets of New York in "Shelter," the writing-directing debut of Connelly's actor spouse, Paul Bettany....

"Welcome to Leith" is a gripping you-are-there portrait of a community under siege: the titular tiny North Dakota burg that, a couple of years ago, suddenly found itself unhappily chosen...

To call "7 Chinese Brothers" featherweight would be an injustice to feathers. Only completist admirers of Jason Schwartzman's misfit gallery need trouble with this perilously thin tale of a guy...

The short, unhappy life of legendary grunge band Nirvana's driving force gets probably definitive screen treatment in "Cobain: Montage of Heck." Like fellow Sundance entry "Listen to Me Marlon," Brett...

Thinly amusing, "The Strongest Man" stretches a short's worth of potentially funny ideas to feature length, where they slowly and surely lead nowhere in particular. The movie represents another stab...

Imagine a movie of the "only one man can save the president" ilk, change that to "only one boy ..." and you've got the gist of "Big Game." This fun...

"A Little Chaos" is all too tidy as it imposes a predictable, pat modern sensibility on a most unconvincing depiction of late 17th-century French aristocratic life, with Kate Winslet starring...

The further adventures of Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno — not that those are necessarily their real names — are chronicled in "The Yes Men Are Revolting." The prankster activists...

Still Hal Hartley's best and most popular film, 1997's "Henry Fool" seemed the beginning of a new phase; unfortunately, the phase turned out to be a dismaying long slide from...