Dennis Harvey

Hitting theaters two years after its fest circuit debut, "Cassadaga" turns out to be a throwback to the lurid '60s shockers that followed in the wake of "Psycho": those in...

A rather turgid ghost story with a simultaneously murky and silly take on the afterlife, "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" stars Mischa Barton as a grieving woman who...

Markus Zusak's international bestseller "The Book Thief" has been brought to the screen with quiet effectiveness and scrupulous taste by director Brian Percival and writer Michael Petroni. This tale of...

Utterly routine futuristic horror-thriller "The Colony" substitutes the term "ferals" for plain old zombies (the modern, fast-moving kind), and that's about it for originality. This Canadian production has been playing...

As insular as filmic in-jokes get, "La ultima pelicula" is largely offers a vague spoof of Dennis Hopper's 1971 "The Last Movie," sometimes called the "Heaven's Gate" of counterculture movies....

Steven R. Monroe's 2010 remake of the enduring 1978 cult hit "I Spit on Your Grave" was surprisingly strong, so it's disappointing that this sequel -- from the same director,...

"The Liberator" is an impressively scaled chronicle of the life and times of Simon Bolivar, hero of South American anti-colonialist struggles in the early 19th century. This latest collaboration between...

Tales of depressing lives in depressed small towns is something Canadian fiction (both literary and cinematic) has often done particularly well, and Pascale Ferland's debut narrative feature, "Riptide," is a...

Rough, formulaic but effective, "White Panther" follows a young man's attempts to rise above his crime-ridden ghetto life through athletics, set within the context of angry, alienated Russian-Jewish emigres disdainful...

Sixty-four-year-old Fanny Ardant has an affair with 41-year-old Laurent Lafitte in "Bright Days Ahead," and that's pretty much all there is to Marion Vernoux's trite MILF tale. Lame humor and...