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Martha Marcy May Marlene

Written & Directed by Sean Durkin Produced by Josh Mond, Antonio Campos, Chris Maybach & Patrick Cunningham Released by Fox Searchlight USA. 101 min. Rated R With Elizabeth Olsen, Brady Corbet, Hugh Dancy, John Hawkes & Sarah Paulson A creepy Luddite zealot, Patrick (John Hawkes), leads a small rural community in upstate New York. His […]

Texas Killing Fields

Directed by Ami Canaan Mann Produced by Michael Mann & Michael Jaffe Written by Don F. Ferrarone Released by Anchor Bay Films USA. 105 min. Rated R With Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jessica Chastain, Chloë Grace Moretz, Annabeth Gish, Sheryl Lee & Stephen Graham Texas Killing Fields is the first film by Ami Canaan […]

Take Shelter

Written & Directed by Jeff Nichols Produced by Tyler Davidson & Sophia Lin Released by Sony Pictures Classics USA. 120 min. Rated R With Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham, Tova Stewart, Katy Mixon, Ray McKinnon & Kathy Baker   Take Shelter is about as American a film as you’ll see—its hero, an Ohio working-class […]

Restless

Directed by Gus Van Sant Produced by Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Bryce Dallas Howard & Van Sant Written by Jason Lew Released by Sony Pictures Classics USA. 93 min. PG-13 With Henry Hopper, Mia Wasikowska, Ryo Kase, Schuyler Fisk, Jane Adams, Chin Han & Lusia Strus All this work we do as people. It can […]

Higher Ground

Directed by Vera Farmiga Produced by Claude Dal Farra, Renn Hawkey, Carly Hugo, Matt Parker & Jon Rubinstein Written by Tim Metcalfe & Carolyn S. Briggs, based on her memoir This Dark World: A Memoir of Salvation Found and Lost Released by Sony Pictures Classics USA. 109 min. Rated R With Vera Farmiga, McKenzie Turner, John […]

Drive

Written & Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn Produced by Marc Platt, John Palermo, Gigi Pritzker, Michael Litvak & Adam Siegel Released by FilmDistrict USA. 100 min. Rated R With Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Oscar Isaac, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman & Albert Brooks It shouldn’t have surprised me that the new thriller Drive, for which director […]

The Killing (1956)

The Killing

THE KILLING (1956) Directed by Stanley Kubrick Produced by James B. Harris Written by Kubrick, dialogue by Jim Thompson, based on the novel Clean Break by Lionel White Released by the Criterion Collection USA. 84 min. Not rated With Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay Flippen, Ted DeCorsia, Marie Windsor, Elisha Cook & Timothy […]

The Debt

Directed by John Madden Produced by Matthew Vaughn, Kris Thykier, Eduardo Rossoff & Eitan Evan Written by Vaughn & Jane Goldman & Peter Straughan, based on the film Ha-Hov Released by Focus Features USA. 113 min. Rated R With Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson, Ciarán Hinds, Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas, Sam Worthington & Jesper Christensen Unusually female-centric, The Debt is a […]