Written & Directed by Jia Zhang-ke Produced by Shozo Ichiyama Released by Kino Lorber Mandarin with English subtitles. China. 125 min. Not rated With Zhao Tao, Jiang Wu, Wang Baoqiang & Luo Lanshan One of the greatest filmmakers currently working, Jia Zhangke has become one of the most vital and poetic chroniclers of modern day […]

Written & Directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt Produced by Ram Bergman Released by Relativity USA. 90 min. Rated R With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, Tony Danza, Rob Brown, Glenne Headly, Brie Larson & Jeremy Luke If MTV’s The Jersey Shore was remade into a feature-length film and given a darkly humorous treatment, you’d have […]

Directed by Andrew Dosunmu Produced by Lars Knudsen, Jay Van Hoy, Matt Parker, Carly Hugo, Darci Picoult, Chris Maybach, Saemi Kim, Patrick Cunningham & Tony Okungbowa Written by Darci Picoult Released by Oscilloscope Laboratories USA. 107 min. Rated R With Danai Gurira, Isaach De Bankolé, Yaya Alafia, Tony Okungbowa, Bukky Ajayi & Angelique Kidjo Mother […]

Directed by Christian Vincent Produced by Étiene Comar & Philipe Rousselet Written by Comar & Vincent, freely inspired by the life of Danièle Mazet-Delpeuch Released by the Weinstein Company French with English subtitles. France. 95 min. Rated PG-13 With Catherine Frot, Jean d’Ormesson, Hippolyte Girardot, Arthur Dupont & Jean-Marc Roulot When Hortense Laborie (Catherine Frot) […]

Written and Directed by Haifaa Al Mansour Produced by Razor Film, Roman Paul & Gerhard Meixner Released by Sony Pictures Classics Arabic with English subtitles Saudi Arabia/Germany. 97 min. Rated PG With Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed, Abdullrahman Al Gohani, Sultan Al Assaf & Ahd Wadjda charmingly promotes a quiet revolution in Saudi Arabia through the […]

Written & Directed by Jonathan Holiff Produced by Holiff, Tanya Lyn Nazarec & Jennifer Phillips Released by New Chapter Productions Canada. 88 min. Not Rated My Father and the Man in Black settles two scores. One is the personal odyssey of a son, debut documentary director Jonathan Holiff, finally reconciling with the memory of his […]

Edited, Written & Directed by Joe Swanberg Produced by Paul Bernon, Sam Slater, Andrea Roa, Swanberg & Alicia Van Couvering Released by Magnolia Pictures USA. 90 min. Rated R With Olivia Wilde, Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick & Ron Livingston Joe Swanberg, besides being one of the most prominent directors of the micro-budgeted independent films known […]

Directed by Ulrich SeidlProduced by Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion Written by Veronika Franz & Ulrich Seidl Released by Strand Releasing German & Arabic with English subtitles Austria/France,/Germany, 113 min.  Not rated With Maria Hofstätten & Nabil Saleh Ulrich Seidl’s “Paradise Trilogy” was originally conceived as a single film of interwoven stories following three female family […]

Written & Directed by Noah Buschel Produced by Savantha Housman & Louise Runge Released by Tribeca Film USA. 81 min. Not rated With Marin Ireland & Paul Sparks Sparrows Dance may be the sweetest and simplest film I’ve seen in years. Taking place almost entirely in one small New York City apartment, the film follows […]