Dennis Harvey

A primal tragedy rendered with exquisite imagery and very little dialogue or exposition, Andrea Pallaoro's "Medeas" is a striking debut feature that will fascinate some viewers and exasperate others. This...

The lifestyles of the rich and petulant require a certain amount of critical distance to be relatable -- or even watchable -- to unaffiliated viewers. There's a bit of that...

"Being Ginger" is filmmaker Scott P. Harris' lightweight inquiry into why it's a liability to be a redhead -- as it has been in his experience -- and whether there's...

Despite the title, there's nothing very fanciful about the trials endured by the heroine of "It's Only Make Believe," or her doggedly realistic responses to them. Still, there's a breathless...

Ranking high on the list of movies you can't quite believe nobody thought to make previously, "Video Games: The Movie" provides a slick, entertaining survey of electronic gaming's history to...

A no-budget variation on "The Most Dangerous Game," "Battle Royale," "The Hunger Games" and other violent survival-sport fantasies, "The Human Race" falls into that gray zone where it can be...

A simple, universal parable played out in boldly imaginative (though not particularly high-tech) design terms, Brazilian animator Ale Abreu's second feature, "The Boy and the World," is an enchanting visual...

"I Am I" is a middling dramedy starring writer-director Jocelyn Towne as a woman who discovers that her long-lost biological father is not only living nearby, but also in an...

Presiding over Arizona's largest county since 1992, Joe Arpaio has been called "the P.T. Barnum of sheriffs" by Larry King -- a fairly neutral statement compared with the fulminations laid...