"Following her 2003 debut The Forest for the Trees, 32-year-old German writer-director Maren Ade's trenchant, funny, and sensitive Everyone Else (Alle Anderen) cuts deeper than an Oscar season's worth
"Although it occasionally gets carried away by its own reflexive spirit, Independencia is far more than the cute formal exercise its premise suggests," writes Andrew Schenker in the L Magazine. "As
"After giving free-floating dread a gargantuan, tentacled form in The Host, Bong Joon-ho returns to human-sized monsters in Mother." Fernando F Croce in Slant: "No less than the toxic leviathan in
"In its quest to reconcile the life of imagination and primal desire with the physical realities that close in around us, [João Pedro] Rodrigues's cinema sets his characters off sniffing, licking
"As in Monster's Ball, which he produced, and his first feature, the equally odious Shadowboxer, [Lee] Daniels emphasizes only the worst in human nature, and does so in a way that flatters rather than
"In its incarnation as a 21st century, recession-era satire on worker exploitation and the intersection between globalism and geopolitics, Sabu's Kanikôsen is an atmospheric, if diluted adaptation
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One of the most content-rich film publications online or off has juiced up its form with Issue 52: Senses of Cinema now sports a bright new design, RSS, tags, the works. Editors Rolando Caputo and
Entries on some of the noisier openings of the week - Joel and Ethan Coen's A Serious Man, Ricky Gervais's The Invention of Lying, Zombieland and Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story, now in the
"With a slender running time of 64 minutes," writes Acquarello, "Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl is a compact, richly textured illustration of [Manoel de] Oliveira's multivalent approach to storytelling
The People's Republic of China celebrates its 60th anniversary tomorrow and, as you've no doubt heard, it's going to be one helluva show. Sharon LaFraniere has detailed the meticulous preparations
Four films from TIFF's documentary program wound up with entries of their own this year. Here are notes on several more... Alissa Simon in Variety: "An affecting portrait of an inspiring woman, fine