Written, Produced, and Directed by Brian Knappenberger
Released by Film Buff/ Participant Media
USA. 104 min. Not rated
What happens when an idealistic computer genius tries to hack the most obstinate system of all, American corporate capitalism? By turns touching and infuriating, the documentary The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz recounts the short but meaningful […]
Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev
Produced by Alexander Rodnyansky and Sergey Melkumov
Written by Oleg Negin and Zvyagintsev
Released by Sony Pictures Classics
Russian with English subtitles
Russia. 142 min Rated R
With Alexey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Vdovitchenkov, Roman Madyanov, Anna Ukolova, Alexey Rozin, Sergey Pokhodaev
How is it that, in the real world, the bad guys tend to win and […]
Directed by David Mackenzie
Written by Jonathan Asser
Produced by Gillian Berrie
Released by Tribeca Film
UK. 106 min. Not rated
With Jack O’Connell, Ben Mendelsohn, Rupert Friend, Sam Spruell, Anthony Welsh, David Ajala and Peter Ferdinando
Starred Up, written by real-life prison psychiatrist Jonathan Asser, feels like necessary corrective medicine for our cultural obsession with anti-heroes. Morally repugnant protagonists have […]
Directed by Morten Tyldum
Produced by Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, and Teddy Schwarzman
Written by Graham Moore, based on the book Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges.
Released by the Weinstein Company
USA/UK. 114 min. Rated R
With Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear, Allen Leech, Matthew Beard, Charles Dance, and Mark Strong
For someone who has become […]
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 […]
