Directed by Álex de la Iglesia Written by Jorge Guerricaechevarría and de la Iglesia Released by IFC Midnight Spanish with English subtitles Spain. 112 min. Not rated With Hugo Silva, Mario Casas, Pepón Nieto, Carolina Bang, Terele Pávez, Jaime Ordóñez, Gabriel Ángel Delgado, Santiago Segura, Macarena Gómez, and Carmen Maura It’s been a long, long […]

Written and Directed by Alex van Warmerdam Produced by Marc van Warmerdam Released by Drafthouse Films Dutch with English subtitles Netherlands/Denmark. 113 min. Not rated With Jan Bijvoet, Hadewych Minis, Jeroen Perceval, and Sara Hjort Ditlevsen Borgman is a sleek, sly, stylish little horror film that is ultimately unsatisfying. It starts intriguingly as we watch […]

Directed by Kelly Reichardt Produced by Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani, Chris Maybach, Saemi Kim, Rodrigo Teixeira Written by Jon Raymond & Kelly Reichardt Released by Cinedigm Entertainment USA. 112 min. Rated R With Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, Peter Sarsgaard, Alia Shawkat, Logan Miller, Kai Lennox, Katherine Waterston, James Le Gros What’s to be done to […]

Directed by Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais Written by Hoss-Desmarais and Marc Tulin Released by Oscilloscope Laboratories Canada. 86 min Not rated With Thomas Haden Church, Marc Labreche, Anie Pascale and Vincent Hoss-Desmarais There are some great movies where man takes on the wilderness and alternately himself. (Into the Wild and Rescue Dawn come to mind). Whitewash is […]

Directed by Eugenio Mira Written by Damien Chazelle Produced by Adrián Guerra & Rodrigo Cortés Released by Magnet Releasing. Spain. 90 min. Rated R With Elijah Wood, John Cusack, Kerry Bishé, Tasmin Egerton, Allen Leech, Don McManus, Alex Winter & Dee Wallace It’s been a long time since Tom Selznick (Elijah Wood) has played the […]

Directed and Written by Hany Abu-Assad Produced by Abu-Assad, Waleed F. Zuaiter & David Gerson Released by Adopt Films Palestine. 98 min. Not Rated Arabic & Hebrew with English subtitles With Adam Bakri, Leem Lubany, Waleed F. Zuaiter, Samer Bisharat, & Eyad Hourani Omar spins a fresh take on thrillers and star-crossed romances set along […]

Directed by Babak Najafi Produced by Fredrik Wikstrom Nicastro Written by Maria Karlsson with Peter Birro, Najafi & Nicastro, based on books by Jens Lapidus Released by Cinedigm Swedish & Spanish with English subtitles Sweden. 100 min. Not rated With Joel Kinnaman, Matias Varela, Dragomir Mrsic, Fares Fares, Madeleine Martin, Dejan Cukic, Joel Spira & […]

Written & Directed by John Huddles Released by Phase 4 Films USA/Indonesia. Rated R Suspension of disbelief has never been a difficult concept for me to accept. Yet, one accomplishment of writer/director John Huddles’s After the Dark has been to reinforce my disbelief entirely. The film opens with two sculpturally attractive college (oh wait, they’re […]

Directed by Alain Guiraudie Produced by Sylvie Pialat Released by Strand Releasing French with English subtitles France. 97 min. Not rated With Pierre Deladonchamps, Christophe Paou & Patrick D’Assumçao Tense, erotic, and coolly transfixing, Stranger by the Lake captivates through its slow-burning intensity and its brazen exhibition of sexuality. Its components are a bit unconventional, […]