Review: ‘Big Men’ ★★★★
No single resource is more essential to modern life than oil, and no film offers a more incisive look at how the enormous wealth oil creates subverts the morality of...
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REVIEW: ‘Anita’ ★★★★
If the name Anita Hill means anything at all to you, you won't need any encouragement to see a compelling documentary featuring this usually private woman talking with exceptional candor...
REVIEW: ‘Particle Fever’ ★★★★
Watching a film won't make you smarter, but if there ever was one that could, it would be "Particle Fever," a movie so mind-bending you can almost feel your brain...
REVIEW: ‘The Lunchbox’ ★★★ 1/2
To the small but choice list of films that gracefully mix a passion for food with other potent emotions — think "Babette's Feast," "Eat Drink Man Woman," "Big Night," even...
REVIEW: ‘Visitors’ ★★
It's playing in theaters and charging admission, but "Visitors" is not what it seems. It's an art piece masquerading as a movie, and whether you think that's a good thing...
REVIEW: ‘Visitors’ ★★
It's playing in theaters and charging admission, but "Visitors" is not what it seems. It's an art piece masquerading as a movie, and whether you think that's a good thing...
REVIEW: ‘The Lunchbox’ ★★★ 1/2
To the small but choice list of films that gracefully mix a passion for food with other potent emotions — think "Babette's Feast," "Eat Drink Man Woman," "Big Night," even...
REVIEW: ‘The Last of the Unjust’ ★★★ 1/2
With the groundbreaking 91/2-hour "Shoah" and similar documentaries to his credit, it would be understandable if filmmaker Claude Lanzmann felt he'd spent enough time dealing with the Holocaust. But the...
Sundance 2014: Strong films, but no ‘wows!’
For the first time in a long time, it didn't snow in Park City, Utah, during the Sundance Film Festival, not even a flurry. The barren hills surrounding the town...
REVIEW: ‘Broken Circle Breakdown’ ★★ 1/2
Bluegrass music and films in the Flemish language are not usually thought of in the same breath, but "The Broken Circle Breakdown" is determined to marry them. The result, not...