Written & Directed by Sebastián Silva
Produced by Juan de Dios Larraín & Pablo Larraín
Released by IFC Films
Chile. 100 min. Not rated
With Michael Cera, Gaby Hoffmann, Juan Andrés Silva, José Miguel Silva & Agustín Silva
Early on in Sebastián Silva’s small, strange, and perfect movie Crystal Fairy, Michael Cera’s character, Jamie, a relentlessly grating and sadly familiar […]
Written & Directed by Jem Cohen
Produced by Paolo Calamita, Cohen & Gabriele Kranzelbinder
Released by Cinema Guild
English & German with English subtitles.
Austria/USA. 106 min. Not rated
With Bobby Sommer & Mary Margaret O’Hara
What a curious job to be a museum guard, watching people watching art, and what a curious movie to match. There’s beauty in participating in […]
Directed by Catherine Corsini
Produced by Fabienne Vonier
Written by Corsini & Benoît Graffin
Released by Film Movement
French & Moldovan with English subtitles
France. 101 min. Not rated
With Raphaël Personnaz, Clotilde Hesme, Arta Dobroshi, Reda Ketab, Alban Aumard & Adèle Haenel
As you might expect from the rather portentous title, Three Worlds is ultimately a parable, which is to say […]
Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Produced by Tyler Davidson, Peter Saraf & John Hodges
Written by Chris Galletta
Released by CBS Films
USA. 95 min. Rated R
With Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso, Moises Arias, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Marc Evan Jackson, Erin Moriarty, Alison Brie & Mary Lynn Rajskub
The Kings of Summer open with a series of very funny melodramatic flourishes […]
Directed by Kieran Darcy-Smith
Produced by Angie Fielder
Written by Felicity Price & Darcy-Smith
Released by eOne Films.
Australia. 89 min. Rated R
With Joel Edgerton, Felicity Price, Teresa Palmer & Antony Starr
Wish You Were Here opens with some beautiful images of Aussies doing what Aussies do so well, namely, being blond and tanned, charismatic and carousing. It helps that […]
Directed by Noah Baumbach
Written by Baumbach & Greta Gerwig
Produced by Mr. Baumbach, Scott Rudin, Lila Yacoub & Rodrigo Teixeira
Released by IFC Films.
USA. 86 min. Rated R
With Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Patrick Heusinger, Adam Driver, Michael Zegen & Grace Gummer
Frances Ha is yet another story about a white 20-something woman stuck in stalled adolescence in […]
Directed by Jean François Laguionie
Produced by Eric Jacquot
Written by Anik Le Ray
Released Gkids
France. 76 min. Not rated
The Painting begins with the image of an empty picture frame that expands to fill the screen. It’s a succinct statement of the film to follow, which has all the charm and depth of a well-executed canvas. It takes […]
Written & Directed by Xan Cassavetes
Produced by Jen Gatien & Alex Orlovsky
Released by Magnet Releasing
USA. 97 min. Rated R
With Joséphine de la Baume, Milo Ventimiglia, Roxane Mesquida, Anna Mouglalis, Michael Rapaport, Riley Keough, Ching Valdes-Aran & Jay Brannan
Can you remember back when vampires were simple, bloodsucking creatures? Before they counted teen heartthrobs among their number […]
Written & Directed by Tanner King Barklow & Gil Kofman
Produced by Francis Krow
Released by Seventh Art Releasing/Antidote Films
USA/China. 90 min. Not rated
Unmade in China tells a story that is both entertaining and unsurprising, tracking the trials and tribulations of Gil Kofman, an American director (The Memory Thief) trying to make a movie in China with […]
