Written, Produced, and Directed by Gabe Polsky
Released by Sony Pictures Classics
USA/Russia. 85 min. Rated PG
A captivating look at one of the great successes of the Soviet experiment, Red Army uncovers how the Soviet Union’s ice hockey team dominated world competition to an unprecedented extent in the 1970s and ‘80s. It featured a core of […]
Directed by Jon Stewart
Produced by Scott Rudin, Jon Stewart, and Gigi Pritzker
Written by Jon Stewart, based on the book Then They Came for Me by Maziar Bahari
Released by Open Road
USA. 103 min. Rated R
With Gael García Bernal, Kim Bodnia, Halah Bilginer, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Golshifteh Farahani, Dimitri Leonidas, Claire Foy
Jon Stewart’s directorial debut has been highly […]
Directed by Carlos Agulló and Mandy Jacobson
Produced by Jacobson
Written by Stephen W. Smith
Released by Trinity
South Africa. 82 min. Not rated
It’s easy to forget what an embarrassment on the global stage South Africa’s apartheid regime was, not least because of how far into the modern era it extended, officially ending only in 1994. In this new […]
Directed by Andrew Lau and Andrew Loo
Written by Michael Di Jiacomo, Andrew Loo, based on an article by Frederic Dannen
Hong Kong/USA. 94 min. Rated R
With Ray Liotta, Justin Chon, Kevin Wu, Harry Shum Jr., and Leonard Hu
When we look back at classic movies, we mostly think of great moments. When Mr. White walks out to […]
Written and Directed by David Ayer
Produced by Bill Block, Ayer, Ethan Smith and John Lesher
Released by Columbia Pictures
UK/USA. 134 min. Rated R
With Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña, Jon Bernthal, Jason Isaacs, Brad William Henke, Jim Parrack, Xavier Samuel, Scott Eastwood, Kevin Vance, Anamaria Marinca, and Alicia von Rittberg
Director David Ayer is far […]
Directed by Michael Cuesta
Written by Peter Landesman, based on the books Dark Alliance by Gary Webb and Kill the Messenger by Nick Schou
Produced by Scott Stuber, Naomi Despres and Jeremy Renner
Released by Focus Features.
USA. 112 min. Rated R
With Jeremy Renner, Rosemarie DeWitt, Ray Liotta, Tim Blake Nelson, Barry Pepper, Oliver Platt, Michael Sheen, Paz Vega, […]
Written and Directed by Theodore Melfi
Produced by Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, Melfi and Fred Roos
Released by the Weinstein Company
USA. 102 min. Rated PG-13
With Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy, Naomi Watts, Chris O’Dowd, Terrence Howard and Jaeden Lieberher
In the past five years or so, Bill Murray has seemingly gotten bigger and more popular than ever. But this […]
Directed by Michael R. Roskam
Written by Dennis Lehane, based on his short story “Animal Rescue”
Produced by Peter Chernin and Jenno Topping
Released by Fox Searchlight Pictures
USA. 106 min. Rated R.
With Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, James Gandolfini, Matthias Schoenaerts, John Ortiz, and Ann Dowd
Anyone interested in recent crime fiction is probably familiar with the work of Dennis […]
Written and Directed by Ari Folman, based on The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem
Produced by Folman, Reinhard Brundig and Robin Wright.
Released by Drafthouse Films
Israel/Germany/Poland/Luxembourg /Belgium/France. 123 min. Not rated
With Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel, Danny Huston, Paul Giamatti, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Jon Hamm
Robin Wright is having a career revival. She became a household name as a […]
