Kenneth Turan

"The Silence" is an exemplary German-language thriller, a complex and disturbing examination of guilt, violence and psychological torment that chills us to the core not once but twice. Impeccably made...

To see "56 Up" is to be reunited with an old friend. Make that 13 old friends, together again for a documentary project the likes of which the world has...

There's something shambling and unassuming about "The Flat," a home-movie quality to much of its footage. But it's not just any home that's being examined, and that makes all the...

To say that "Middle of Nowhere," winner of Sundance's coveted directing award for writer-director Ava DuVernay, sheds long-overdue light on infrequently explored aspects of African-American life is true as far...

Though he was named the most powerful artist in the world by ArtReview, Chinese provocateur/human rights activist Ai Weiwei is simply a boldface name to most people, someone whose life...

The statistics brandished by the documentary"The Invisible War" are scandalous, but what makes this savage indictment of the epidemic of rape in theU.S. military so unforgettable are not numbers but...