Written, Produced & Directed by Asghar Farhadi Released by Sony Pictures Classics Iran. 123 min. Rated PG-13 Farsi with English subtitles With Leila Hatami, Peyman Moadi, Sarina Farhadi, Ali-Asghar Shahbazi, Sareh Bayat, & Shahab Hosseini A Separation opens with a marriage in crisis. Testifying testily, the wife explains to a judge that she wants to […]
Go for broke—that could be the motto for many of this year’s noteworthy films. Terrence Malick created the world out of the Big Bang, all set to a pseudo-Wagnerian score, in The Tree of Life. Even Werner Herzog ventured back thousands of years to ponder life during the Ice Age—and in 3D, a format that […]
Directed by Rodrigo García Produced by Glenn Close, Bonnie Curtis, Julie Lynn & Alan Maloney Written by Glenn Close, John Banville & Gabriella Prekop, based on a short story by George Moore Released by Liddell Entertainment/Roadside Attractions UK/Ireland. 113 min. Rated R Starring: Glenn Close, Brendan Gleeson, Mia Wasikowska, Aaron Johnson & Janet McTeer Albert […]
Directed by David Fincher Produced by Scott Rudin, Ole Sondberg, Soren Stærmose & Ceán Chaffin Written by Steven Zaillian, based on the novel by Stieg Larsson Released by Columbia Pictures/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures USA/Sweden/UK/Germany. 158 min. Rated R With: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgard, Steven Berkoff, Robin Wright, Yorick van Wageningen, Geraldine James, Joely […]
Produced & Directed by Charles Evans Jr. Released by Variance Films USA. 102 min. Rated PG-13 The current demonization of Wall Street may have helped trigger the current protest movement, but there’s an even more hated entity in the minds of most Americans: Big Tobacco. Cigarette companies are the most egregious example of corporate greed […]
Directed by Tomas Alfredson Written by Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan, based on the novel by John Le Carré Produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner & Robyn Slovo Released by Focus Features. UK/France/Germany. 128 min. Rated R With Gary Oldman, Kathy Burke, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Dencik, Colin Firth, Stephen Graham, Tom Hardy, Ciaran Hinds, John […]
Directed by Rachid Bouchareb Produced by Bouchareb and Jean Bréhat Written by Bouchareb, Zoé Galeron & Olivier Lorelle Released by Cinema Libre Studio UK/France/Algeria. 90 min. Not Rated In English, French & Arabic with English subtitles With Brenda Blethyn, Sotigui Kouyaté, Sami Bouajila & Roschdy Zem The events of 7/7—the day terrorist attacks struck public […]
Shot, Produced & Directed by Ian Palmer Released by Arc Entertainment Ireland. 97 min. Rated R From the poster for Knuckle, one might get the impression that this is another underdog drama like The Fighter or Warrior. Not so. This is a documentary and is not about underdogs, per se. It’s about blue-collar Irish […]
Written & Directed by Takeshi Kitano Produced by Masayuki Mori & Takio Yoshida Released by Magnet Releasing Japanese with English subtitles Japan. 109 min. Rated R With Beat Takeshi, Kippei Shiina, Ryo Kase, Tomokazu Miura, Jun Kunimura, Renji Ishibashi & Tetta Sugimoto The bleakly funny Japanese gangster drama Outrage came out in its home country […]