Ever the nostalgic romanticist, Quentin Tarantino offers up his latest film, The Hateful Eight — his eighth in what he claims will be ten fi...

Historically, Todd Haynes has been a very cold director. He uses distancing techniques and stylistic diversions to reflect the context throu...

In Adam Salky's I Smile Back, Sarah Silverman plays Laney Brooks, a (mostly) happily married mother of two with a tendency to fuck her good...

When Michael Ritchie's feature directorial debut, Downhill Racer, hit American theatres in late 1969, it didn't fare very well. Critics rece...

On paper, Josh Mond's directorial debut, James White, doesn't seem like much. Like many New York-based independent films, it's a dialogue-he...

Nima Nourizadeh's American Ultra attempts to wear many hats. It was marketed as a stoner comedy, sharing a campaign aesthetic with the admit...

The thing about a movie like Shaun the Sheep is that the primary audience is already embedded. The mischievous titular sheep and his dialogu...

In general terms, the romantic comedy has become stagnant. The genre is synonymous with schmaltz and a farcical, arguably irresponsible, pre...

With Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law being preoccupied with other projects, there was a franchise void for populist late summer adult sleuth...

Scott Mann's entirely perfunctory crime thriller, Heist, is a bizarre exercise in cinematic redundancy. The premise, wherein the honourable...

The title of Michael Haneke's first French feature, Code Unknown, refers to several things, both figurative and literal, while encompassing...

There's nothing particularly novel about the premise of Jeremy Thomas's sophomore feature, Ally Was Screaming: Best friends Nole (Charlie Ca...

Stations of the Cross, Dietrich Brüggemann's meticulously constructed cinematic disquisition on the inherent dangers of extremist ideology i...

Gillian Flynn's second novel, Dark Places, is arguably her least noteworthy effort. Sharp Objects, though sharing similar moderate commercia...

In the "making of" supplement included with the DVD of the Marie Heurtin biopic, Marie's Story, director Jean-Pierre Améris discusses the be...

Éric Rohmer's fourth comedy and proverb, Full Moon in Paris, opens with a proverb that Rohmer invented himself: "The one who has two wives l...

During the opening moments of survival thriller The Keeping Room, a woman is walking alone down a dirt road during the final days of the Ame...

Dreams, nightmares and the loss of innocence — or at least the division between idealism and reality — are just a few of the the...

Much of the hype surrounding Lenny Abrahamson's adaptation of the Emma Donoghue novel, Room, revolves around the lead performance from Short...

During the extremely candid and occasionally hilarious "Making of" documentary included with the Blu-ray release of Bordello of Blood, Corey...