Dennis Harvey

There's a certain indie-rock authenticity and some real filmmaking chops to "Mount Joy," though the care and affection expended on this indie drama's audiovisual packaging are regrettably lacking in the...

"Victor 'Young' Perez" is enjoyable if unmemorable, so long as it portrays the life of its titular figure, a Jewish Tunisian who was at one point the lightweight boxing champion...

The disappearance of two immigrant children in mid-19th-century rural Pennsylvania provides the narrative gist and mystery of "Kinderwald." Lise Raven's first feature since her crime drama "Low" nearly two decades...

More than the lighthearted color survey implied by its title, "Queens & Cowboys" charts one long season on the gay rodeo circuit, building rooting interest in specific protagonists as they...

Earnest, solid if somewhat plodding at times, "The Case Against 8" follows the successful fight to have California's anti-gay-marriage Proposition 8 overturned as unconstitutional. There are engaging, articulate personalities here...

"3 Nights in the Desert" is a middling drama starring Amber Tamblyn, Wes Bentley and "Boardwalk Empire's" Vincent Piazza as erstwhile members of a rock band that almost made it,...

Ventura Pons' "Ignasi M.," one of his rare documentaries, is a charming portrait of the highly regarded Catalonian museologist Ignasi Millet Bonaventura. Rather than focusing on his professional expertise in...

Loose and ebullient, "Tattoo" sees worlds collide as the omnisexual leader of an anarchist cabaret troupe falls in love with an 18-year-old soldier serving Brazil's military dictatorship in 1978, just...

Given a well-deserved editing award at Sundance for juggling a daunting number of principal threads and themes in cogent fashion, Edet Belzberg's "Watchers of the Sky" casts a wide net...

"Elliot" won the jury award for best documentary feature at Slamdance, although frankly much of its content appears so perfectly boobish, in a low-budget Christopher Guest-imitating mode, that at times...