The Deep Blue Sea (2012)

Drama Rated R

If The Deep Blue Sea had maintained the bravura formalist intensity of its opening third – all rich image and swooning score, like a silent film told in lushly burnished Instagram hues – writer-director Terence Davies may have fashioned some sort of retro masterpiece. As it is, we’re simply left with one of the best

Ruby Sparks (2012)

Drama Rated PG-13

"Clever, but not clever enough to make its central conceit work."

Key Largo (1948)

Drama Rated NR

“…belongs to its villain, through and through.”

Shotgun Stories (2007)

Drama Rated PG-13

The feature debut of writer-director Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter), Shotgun Stories deals in sins of fathers, feuds of brothers and all sorts of Biblically infused, familial drama. It’s weighty stuff, yet also told with a familiar matter-of-factness that makes you feel as if you could be hearing this story as gossip while sitting on a

Take This Waltz (2012)

Drama Rated R

"The movie has many true sentiments, but few true characters on which to hang them."

Humpday (2009)

Drama Rated R

High concept meets indie aesthetic, to fascinating results. Writer-director Lynn Shelton takes a boozy, late night query – What if a pair of male, heterosexual best friends agreed to have sex on film for an amateur porn contest? – and turns it into a thoughtful, revealing and challenging consideration of what it means to be

Your Sister’s Sister (2012)

Drama Rated R

"…about our desire for family, however unconventional."

Patang (2012)

Drama Rated NR

"The characters remain faces on a brochure."

Children of Heaven (1997)

Drama Rated PG

Children of Heaven, from Iranian director Majid Majidi, immerses us so thoroughly in the world of its child protagonists that their central dilemma – trading a single pair of shoes back and forth so that their parents don’t realize they’ve lost their only other pair – has a powerhouse dramatic intensity. When they meet mid-day

Magic Mike (2012)

Drama Rated R

“…most interesting for Tatum’s performance and the way director Steven Soderbergh emphasizes an overall air of economic desperation.