Peter Debruge

In the cranky, foul-mouthed tradition of bad grandpas, bad teachers, bad Santas and so forth, "The Bronze" unveils yet another vinegar-spirited comedic antihero: the bad sport. Catapulting herself into the...

Don't go looking for relatable human behavior in "Magical Girl." There is none to be found, which is both an asset and a weakness of Spanish director Carlos Vermut's sophomore...

Set in Mexico during the "10 days that shook" Russia's greatest silent filmmaker, "Eisenstein in Guanajuato" marks Peter Greenaway's raucous attempt to capture his all-time cinema idol at his moment...

America's Second Amendment inadvertently serves to keep Mexican drug cartels stocked with U.S.-made, military-grade artillery in "600 Miles," an understated, astutely gauged look at the way weapons flow south to...

As Yuletide offerings go, Charles Poekel's "Christmas, Again" might as well be called "It's a So-So Life" — a downbeat but never outright depressing reminder that the holidays tend to...

Frank Capra would have approved of "The Fool," a forceful Russian drama in which a lone plumber stands up to a corrupt system on behalf of the people living in...

Who would expect the new Roy Andersson picture — "the final part of a trilogy on being a human being" — to be life-affirming? And yet, from its comic title...

Easily the most fascinating film to come along and challenge traditional gender roles in the past year, "Fidelio: Alice's Journey" chronicles a sexually liberated female sailor's voyage of self-discovery aboard...

The spirit of Sergio Leone hovers above Argentine director Pablo Fendrik's "Ardor," a spooky south-of-the-equator oater — or "machete western," if you will — that trades open desert horizons for...