Written & Directed by David O. Russell, based on the book by Matthew Quick Produced by Donna Gigliotti, Jonathan Gordon & Bruce Cohen Released by the Weinstein Company USA. 120 min. Rated R With Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, Shea Wigham, Anupam Kher, Julia Stiles & Chris Tucker After seeing the […]

Directed by Jacques Audiard Written by Audiard & Thomas Bidegain, based on the short-story collection Rust and Bone by Craig Davidson Released by Sony Pictures Classics French with English subtitles. France. 120 min. Rated R With Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure, Céline Sallette, Corinne Masiero, Bouli Lanners & Jean-Michel Correia On first sight, the […]

Written & Directed by Alex Gibney Produced by Gibney, Alexandra Johnes, Kristen Vaurio, Jedd Wider & Todd Wider Released by HBO Documentary Films USA. 106 min. Not Rated Director/narrator Alex Gibney loudly amplifies several meanings of “silence” in Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House Of God. There’s the familiar stonewalling silence of pedophile priests, […]

Written & Directed by Ra’anan Alexandrowicz Produced by Liran Atzmor Released by Cinema Guild Israel. 101 min. Not Rated In Hebrew with English subtitles Punctuated with pungent visual and narrative footnotes, The Law in These Parts comes close to being the Pentagon Papers of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories. Director Ra’anan Alexandrowicz incisively […]

Directed by Sean Baker Produced by Blake Ashman Kipervaser Written by Baker & Chris Bergoch Released by Music Box Films USA. 104 Min. Not rated With Dree Hemingway, Besedka Johnson, Stella Maeve, James Ransone & Karren Karagulian The fringe of Hollywood’s Walk of Fame attracts all kinds of get-rich-quick dreamers and schemers, now and in […]

Directed by Steven Spielberg Produced by Spielberg & Kathleen Kennedy Written by Tony Kushner, based on the book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin Released by DreamWorks Pictures/20th Century Fox USA. 145 min. Rated PG-13 With Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gulliver McGrath, James Spader, […]

Directed by Paolo Sorrentino Produced by Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima & Andrea Occhipinti Written by Sorrentino & Umberto Contarello Released by The Weinstein Company Italy/France/Ireland. 111 min. Rated R With Sean Penn, Frances McDormand, Judd Hirsch, Eve Hewson, Olwen Fouéré, Simon Delaney, David Byrne & Kerry Condon The old country comes to the New World […]

Directed by Ursula Meier Produced by Denis Freyd & Ruth Waldburger Written by Antoine Jaccoud & Meier with the collaboration of Gilles Taurand Released by Adopt Films French with English subtitles France/Switzerland. 97 min. Not rated With Léa Seydoux, Kacey Mottet Klein, Martin Compston & Gillian Anderson Switzerland’s submission for the best foreign-language Oscar, Sister […]

Directed and Written by Arnon Goldfinger Produced by Goldfinger & Thomas Kufus Released by Sundance Selects Hebrew, English & German with English subtitles Israel/Germany. 97 min. Not rated The Flat starts as an ordinary family gathering, the type familiar to many of us, and turns into an extraordinary story. Director Arnon Goldfinger, a humanistic and […]