Narrated, Written & Directed by Matthew Cooke Produced by Adrian Grenier & Bert Marcus Released by Tribeca Film USA. 96 min. Not Rated In memorable scenes from the TV series The Wire, an ambitious CFO to a Baltimore drug kingpin ran business seminars for his middle-management dealers to explain how to maximize the criminal organization’s […]

Written & Directed by Tobias Lindholm Produced by Tomas Radoor & René Ezra Released by Magnolia Pictures English, Somali & Danish with English subtitles Denmark. 99 min. Not rated With Pilou Asbaek, Soren Malling, Dar Salim, Roland Moller, Gary Skjoldmose Porter & Abdihakin Asgar Tobias Lindholm’s tense, compelling drama A Hijacking is often as stark […]

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 […]

Written & Directed by Kim Ki-duk Produced by Kim Soon-mo Released by Drafthouse Films Korean with English subtitles South Korea. 104 min. Not rated With Cho Min-soo & Lee Jung-jin Over the course of a 17-year career, in which he has made 18 films, Korean auteur Kim Ki-duk has often shocked and divided audiences with […]

Written & Directed by Geoffrey Fletcher Produced by Fletcher & Bonnie Timmerman Released by Cinedigm USA. 88 min. Rated R With Saoirse Ronan, Alexis Bledel & James Gandolfini The idea behind Violet & Daisy is intriguing. Two young women, who love ordinary things like pretty dresses and bubblegum pop stars, happen to be deadly assassins […]

Written & Directed by Ron Morales Produced by Rebecca Lundgren Released by Alamo Drafthouse Films Tagalog with English subtitles Philippines. 84 min. Not rated With Arnold Reyes, Menggie Corabarrubias, Dido de la Paz, Leon Miguel, Ella Guevara, Marife Necesito & Patricia Ona Gayond Marlon Villar (Arnold Reyes) is caught between the many responsibilities he has […]

Directed by Danny Boyle Produced by Christian Colson; Written by Joe Ahearne & John Hodge Released by Fox Searchlight Pictures UK. 101 min. Rated R With James McAvoy, Vincent Cassel, Rosario Dawson, Danny Sapani, Matt Cross & Wahab Sheikh Since he broke through with the black comedy Shallow Grave (1994) and with his follow up […]

Written & Directed by Angad Bhalla Produced by Lisa Valencia-Svensson & Bhalla Released by First Run Features USA/Canada/UK. 81 min. Not rated The feature documentary Herman’s House brings together two disparate worlds: that of 35-year-old New York City artist Jackie Sumell and 69-year-old Herman Wallace, serving a life sentence in the Louisiana State Penitentiary—40 of […]

Directed by Derek Cianfrance Written by Cianfrance, Ben Coccio & Darius Marder, based on a story by Cianfrance & Coccio Produced by Jamie Patricof, Alex Orlovsky, Sidney Kimmel & Lynette Howell Released by Focus Features Release, USA. 140 min. Rated R With Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes, Ray Liotta, Rose Byrne, Emory Cohen, Dane […]