Dennis Harvey

A strikingly assured and ambitious feature debut for writer-director Maya Vitkova, at least to a point, "Viktoria" has a touch of "Garp" and "The Tin Drum," as well as plenty...

Experimental narrative "My Blind Heart" follows a man suffering from the effects of Marfan syndrome -- a genetic connective tissue disorder that can affect numerous body parts and functions --...

Danish director Berit Madsen's first documentary feature spends a few years in the company of its titular figure, a provincial Iranian teenager whose dream of becoming an astronaut -- or...

Academia is always fertile ground for satire -- well, almost always. There's a lot of snark but not much actual amusement in the university faculty hijinks of "Crimes Against Humanity,"...

Bill Plympton's first feature in five years -- a fairly long pause for this nearly one-man animation factory -- is about l'amour, which of course leads almost immediately to strife...

The path of social and political activism undertaken by many American nuns over the past 50 years is the subject of "Band of Sisters." Mary Fishman's admiring docu is more...

Earnest drama "Torn" approaches hot-button issues of terrorism, racism and bullying from the standpoint of parents dealing with highly mixed emotions after their kids are killed in a mall explosion...

When an opening voiceover promises a glimpse of "the seven gates that lead to hell," you've raised expectations bound to be frustrated by something like "Toad Road," an ostensible horror...

"Peaches Does Herself" finds the Canadian expat electroclash pioneer doing her outrageously (and often hilariously) sexual thing in a rock-opera form consisting of back-catalog songs and an elaborate, entertaining stage...

A decade of hits rivaling those in "Jersey Boys" and "Mamma Mia!" in terms of boomer nostalgia value is the estimable main selling point of "Beautiful -- The Carole King...