Peter Debruge

If Larry Clark went to the French island of Corsica and made a film, it might look an awful lot like "Les Apaches." Full of hormones, half-naked pool parties and...

In order to thrive, stereoscopic cinema desperately needs some wild, artistic directors to jump in and experiment with the format, and so the prospect of a portmanteau film featuring 3D...

JOB DESCRIPTION Although Watkins handles everything from wedding parties to Oscar bookings, her specialty is press junkets. Thanks to her efforts, Los Angeles' top praiseries have made the Four Seasons...

Cementing himself as the great classicist of his generation, James Gray turns back the clock to 1921 in "The Immigrant," a romantic tale that cuts to the very soul of...

For those who considered "Sin nombre" too Hollywood, Spanish director Diego Quemada-Diez's "La jaula de oro" provides a less schematic yet equally striking ground-level view of four teens traveling from...

In "The Summer of Flying Fish," Chilean docu director Marcela Said makes a subtle shift into scripted drama, shaping scenes of tension between white landowners and the local Mapuche natives...

An enticing blockbuster concept gets a lackluster execution from Japanese genre director Takashi Miike in "Shield of Straw," about a dedicated cop's superhuman efforts to protect an accused killer with...

Ali and Mathias are planning an orgy, but before the fun can begin, the participants must get to know each other first. One by one, they tell their stories in...

The same long-suffering quality that allowed a salt-of-the-earth Canadian to singlehandedly maintain the family farm for decades ultimately enables him to put the entire property up for sale in "Le...

Having paved the way two years ago with his 15-hour cine-essay "The Story of Film" (and before that, the handsome coffee-table volume of the same name), film critic-cum-director Mark Cousins...