Action/Adventure Rated PG-13
“…a disturbing dose of science-fiction doom.
Drama Rated PG-13
"…a post-Katrina fairy tale made from real mud."
Drama Rated NR
Robert Bresson goes for the jugular here, even more so than in Au Hasard Balthazar. Mouchette is the sad – no, make that soul-sapping – story of a young teen (Nadine Nortier) whose life of poverty and misfortune devolves into horrific tragedy over the course of a few days. Balthazar the donkey had it good
How many masterpieces are this pure? The Bicycle Thieves is a landmark of Italian postwar neorealism, yet that reputation would suggest a more academic and obtuse experience than this lovely little film. A jobless husband and father (unprofessional actor Lamberto Maggiorani) desperately needs work. There is a job opening to put up posters around Rome,
Drama Rated R
“The use of red is so overdone that you assume the color must be paying for some sort of product placement.
“And you thought Ralph Fiennes was scary as Voldemort.
Documentary Rated NR
Any discussion of The Arbor has to begin with an explication of the hyper-meta format that’s been devised by director Clio Barnard. In revisiting the life and early death of British playwright Andrea Dunbar, Barnard recorded audio testimony from Dunbar’s adult children and other relatives, then had actors lip sync to the dialogue while performing
Family Rated PG
"It’s not quite a miracle, but it is impressive how much this respects the intelligence of its young viewers."
Horror Rated R
Writer-director-editor Ti West gives The House of the Devil a rad VHS vibe. It’s set in the 1980s, and looks, feels and sounds as if it was made during that era (you have to love the Carpenteresque soundtrack). Sporting feathered hair and a gargantuan personal tape player, Jocelin Donahue plays Samantha Hughes, a cash-strapped college
“…oddly unremarkable: less surely controlled than House of the Devil, less interesting in terms of form and, perhaps worst of all, not scary in the least.
