Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski Produced by Eric Abraham, Piotr Dzieciol & Ewa Puszczynska Written by Pawlikowski and Rebecca Lenkiewicz Released by Music Box Films Polish with English subtitles Poland/Denmark. 83 min. Rated PG-13 With Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik and Joanna Kulig Ida is an exquisitely beautiful road trip through the emotional consequences of […]
Written & Directed by Jeremy Saulnier Produced by Anish Savjani, Richard Peete and Vincent Savino Released by Radius/TWC USA. 92 min. Rated R With Macon Blair, Devin Ratray, Amy Hargreaves, Kevin Kolack and Eve Plumb Cinematographer-turned-writer-director Jeremy Saulnier follows his first feature, the comic horror Murder Party (2007), with Blue Ruin, an original parody of […]
Produced and Directed by Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math Released by Drafthouse Films Canada. 71 min. Rated R How do you measure a man? According to Icelandic folklore, in inches, five to be exact. This is one of the many questions posed in Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math’s brazenly entertaining documentary, which follows Sigurdur Hjartarson, […]
Directed by Jonathan Glazer Produced by James Wilson and Nick Wechsler Written by Walter Campbell and Glazer, based on the novel by Michel Faber Released by A24 UK. 107 min. Rated R With Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy McWilliams, Lynsey Taylor Mackay, Dougie McConnell, and Kevin McAlinden If you’re looking for a movie in which Scarlett Johansson […]
Written & Directed by Lars von Trier Produced by Louise Vesth Released by Magnolia Pictures Denmark/Belgium/France/Germany/UK. 123 min. Not rated With Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgard, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf, Jamie Bell, Willem Dafoe, Mia Goth, Jean-Marc Barr and Udo Kier We all knew Nymphomaniac: Volume II was going to spiral downward. Is there anyone out […]
Directed by Rithy Panh Produced by Catherine Dussart Written by Panh and Christophe Bataille French with English subtitles Released by Strand Releasing Cambodia/France. 92 min. Not rated The Missing Picture creatively relives the Cambodian holocaust and surmounts the storytelling problem intrinsic to retelling such horrors. Time inexorably passes, evidence disappears, and the last witnesses grow […]
Written, Produced and Directed by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel Released by Sundance Selects USA. 83 min. Not rated If you put aside the deep knowledge Finding Vivian Maier imparts about an undeniably powerful contributor to photography, and the stark sense of the wildly eccentric character behind the images, you are left with one of […]
Edited, Written and Directed by Daniel Patrick Carbone Produced by Matthew Petock, Zach Shedd, Carbone, and Jordan Bailey-Hoover Released by Tribeca Film USA. 80 minutes. Not Rated With Ryan Jones, Nathan Varnson, Colm O’Leary, Ivan Tomic, Thomas Cruz, Christina Starbuck and Chris Kies Fresh coming-of-age tales are difficult to make for the simple reason that […]
Directed by Tom Berninger Released by Abramorama Entertainment USA. 74 min. Not rated Matt Berninger, the lead singer of the indie rock band the National, is a very self-possessed individual. He is slim and handsome with steel blue gimlet eyes. When his band’s concerts begin, he strolls on stage with a glass of red wine […]