In her first novel, Irène Némirovsky follows a summer romance after the holiday ends and the mundanity of daily life resumes. Written when t...

The first few minutes of The Daughter, an unequivocal allegory about Greece's economic crisis, are fine, poetic and pointed: shots of forest...

"My name is Serena Frome (rhymes with plume) and almost forty years ago I was sent on a secret mission for the British security service. I d...

It's surprising when any film, let alone a crowd-pleaser anchored by Hollywood's beloved silver fox, succeeds in being scathing and smart, t...

Olympus Has Fallen must've been a no-brainer for FilmDistrict, the U.S. distributor that brought such fare as Gerard Butler's Playing for Ke...

In Haruki Murakami novels, strange incidents (that somehow don't seem all that strange in the context of their story) are interspersed with...

Following in the footsteps of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Quartet (Dustin Hoffman's directorial debut) is the latest movie to centre upo...

After watching Ken Burns' The Dust Bowl, a marvelously touching, illuminating and disturbing chronicle about the years-long, manmade environ...

Theo (Clive Owen, in perhaps his best role to date) wakes up day after day, goes to work and feels—if he feels anything—like shi...

Melancholia begins with an eight-minute montage of stunning imagery—a bride walking in the slowest-of-slow motion with grey woolen ske...

Playing for Keeps is an unsurprising and forgettable movie about the importance of family. It follows George (Gerard Butler), a former profe...

William Kurelek's The Maze (a re-imagined hour-long documentary that uses decades-lost footage from filmmakers Robert M. Young and David Gru...

Why did Steven Soderbergh, a director who tends to craft films with allegorical underpinnings or tongue-in-cheek irony, decide to portray th...

Architecture 101 is a thoughtful, tender film about many things—nostalgia, memory, time, longing and connection—though ostensibl...

First Time, director Han Yan's reinterpretation of the 2003 Korean film with the cryptic moniker …ing, chronicles a young couple's rom...

Like a Halloween-themed Adventures in Babysitting for the 21st century, Fun Size, the directorial debut of Josh Schwartz (writer/producer of...

William Kurelek's The Maze (a re-imagined hour-long documentary that uses decades-lost footage from filmmakers Robert M. Young and David Gru...

Ry Russo-Young's third feature, Nobody Walks, has an appealing façade: a script co-written with Lena Dunham of Girls and Tiny Furnitu...

In this thoughtful film essay, Sarah J. Christman investigates the ever-changing nature of matter, both personal and public. Everything is i...