Olivier Assayas' recent projects haven't quite set the world on fire the way they did back in his Irma Vep days. That should change with thi...

A certain dead actor has not come out of retirement — the Steve McQueen at the helm of Hunger is a respected visual artist making his...

The big cheat of most mafia movies is that they purport to represent a terrible social trap while glorifying it at the same time. Gomorrah i...

Kelly Reichardt is one of the last American directors to be at all credible. While her more high-profile contemporaries are obsessed with ov...

Would that this 1978 film had a stronger director. Adapting Alice Childress's famous novel requires a stronger hand and a deeper understandi...

The turnaround from '70s grunge to '80s wealth hit Japan as it did everywhere else, hence we find samurai outlaw Hideo Gosha about-facing wi...

This 1974 Japanese historical thriller is pretty much par for the course: lots of speeches, lots of angst, lots of disappointment, lots of s...

This is a movie that goes so very right that it constantly reminds you of how it could have gone so completely wrong. Loosely fit into th...

I’ve been tedious in my CanCon smack downs before, so let me take it down a notch: ReGenesis isn’t the worst show ever made, just the last s...

Deep within this briefcase-shaped deluxe package is one of the more pleasant relics of ’60s TV: all four seasons of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,...

Don’t take the title of this collection too seriously; it’s mostly films at a bit of a remove from the early to mid-’30s gangster heyday, wi...

Thomas McCarthy (director of The Station Agent) stumbles badly with this do-good enterprise that does no actual good. Instead of awakening h...

Errol Morris is famous for disputing the factuality of accounts and photographs, and this time he courted controversy for uncovering the eve...

This is a very late entry in the Seven/Silence of the Lambs genre, so late that the filmmakers forgot exactly why they bothered. Going throu...

The documentary Oscar winner for 2007 is, surprise, a very good movie. If it’s nobody’s idea of radical it’s still ethically committed and r...

Jared Leto would no doubt like you to think of Robert DeNiro’s turn in Raging Bull as he does his turn in Chapter 27. Ballooning quite large...

Vincente Minnelli has been lionized the world over for his great musicals but one of his most famous — this 1958 Oscar winner — is more prof...

I was surprised to find that this unassuming slice of life won a bunch of Cesar awards, including Best Picture; it’s not the kind of pseudo-...

The sex thriller is an essentially hypocritical genre: first it hooks you with the promise of sex only to throw the cold water and bring dow...

Depending on your point of view, this portrait of the proto-punk pioneer will be moving, annoying or both at once. I’m of the latter categor...