Kenneth Turan

"I'm just a train buff," Darius McCollum says, which is a little bit like Mozart saying, "I just fool around with notes." For, as the excellent documentary "Off The Rails"...

"Long Way North" is a complete pleasure, a gorgeous piece of wide-screen animation that is as delightful as it is unexpected. Unexpected because it is the feature debut for French...

What "Fire at Sea" appears to be and what it is are not the same thing, and it's that difference that makes it a masterful documentary. On the simplest level,...

"Complete Unknown" opens with a dazzling series of brief, interconnected flashbacks, quick glimpses of a series of radically different women. But are they so different after all? Boom, boom, boom,...

Actors gravitate toward passion projects, films they care deeply, even obsessively about, but the result is seldom as convincing as "A Tale of Love and Darkness," a film of beautiful...

Timothy Leary and Ram Dass were, at least as far as public images went, the contrasting faces of the 1960s counterculture. Leary was the LSD advocate, the exuberant popularizer of...

"The Fits" pulls you in and won't let go. Made by a first-time feature director working with a microscopic budget and a tiny, 11-year-old protagonist, it's a 72-minute wonder, a...

"Our Little Sister" has to be seen to be believed. Not because it depends on huge explosions or special effects but because it doesn't. A delicate, unforced meditation on the...

Every once in a while, a small, unheralded film comes along, so smart and funny, such a pleasure to experience, you can't believe your luck. "Hunt for the Wilderpeople" is...

Not to put too fine a point on it, but Frank Zappa, the fiercely idiosyncratic musician and composer, hated being interviewed. "It's one of the most abnormal things you can...