"Was Hugo Chávez really the anti-American force we've been told he is?" asks Oliver Stone in the Guardian. "Once we began our journey, we found ourselves going beyond Venezuela to several other
"At four days in," writes Shane Danielsen in an indieWIRE dispatch from Venice, "by far the strongest entry is Jessica Hausner's Lourdes, a sly, elliptical take on faith and redemption, set
"Patrice Chéreau," writes Guy Lodge at In Contention, "is one of the most intelligent and fluid of current French auteurs, capable of tackling lurid historical drama (Queen Margot) and downbeat erotic
"Michael Moore - who has made a fortune out of attacking America's obsession with guns, its health care system and the Iraq war - is not a man to hold his tongue and doff his cap," notes Arifa
"The restoration of this hefty, propulsive, and preposterous 1928 film comes with an irresistible tag of relevance. The story - 'inspired' by Emile Zola's 1891 novel of the same name - concerns
Back in March, the UK's Channel 4 broadcast a three-part series based on four books by David Peace known as the Red Riding Quartet. In May, IFC Films picked up the US rights to
"Following so hot on the heels of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans that the latter's shoe leather will be scuffed," begins Leslie Felperin in Variety, "Werner Herzog's My Son, My Son
"A rallying cry for the put-upon boss, Mike Judge's Extract makes for a perverse double feature with Office Space (1999), Judge's cult favorite about cubicle life." Elbert Ventura in Reverse Shot
"Did you hear the one about the German maverick who signed on to remake a notorious existential American policier and turned it into a stuffy, if pleasingly ridiculous b-picture?" asks Time
"In revisiting his darkly comic 1998 ensembler Happiness, Todd Solondz may have made his best film with Life During Wartime," proposes Todd McCarthyin Variety. "The distinctive, boundary-pushing
The Telluride Film Festival, opening tomorrow and running through Labor Day, has unveiled the lineup for this year's 36th edition. Here's what we know so far about each of the films screening
The Road, John Hillcoat's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, has been knocked around the release schedule for some time now, but David Jenkins (Time