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 […]

Directed by Arnaud Desplechin Written by Mr. Desplechin, with Kent Jones & Julie Peyr, based on Reality and Dream by Georges Devereux Produced by Jennifer Roth, Pascal Caucheteux & Grégoire Sorlat Released by IFC Films France/USA. 114 min. Not rated With Benicio Del Toro, Mathieu Amalric, Gina McKee, Larry Pine, Joseph Cross, Michelle Thrush and […]

Directed by Fedor Bondarchuk Written by Ilya Tilkin & Sergey Snezhkin, based on the novel by Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman Produced by Alexander Rodnyansky, Anton Zlatopolskiy, Dmitry Rudovskiy & Sergey Melkumov Released by Columbia Pictures/Imax 3D Russian & German with English subtitles Russia. 135 min. Rated R With Mariya Smolnikova, Yanina Studilina, Petr […]

Written & Directed by Hayao Miyazaki, based on a graphic novel published in Monthly Model Graphix Produced by Toshio Suzuki Released by Studio Ghibli/Touchstone Pictures Japanese with English subtitles Japan. 126 min. Rated PG-13 Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki has announced his intention to retire more than once. So when, upon the premiere of this […]

Released by ShortsHD 97 min. Not rated “Do I Have To Take Care of Everything?” The briefest, by half, of this year’s Oscar nominated live-action shorts makes more of an impact than its tone and brevity might suggest. The Finnish short covers a morning in the chaotic life of the Ketonin family, scrambling like mad […]

Directed by Philipp Kadelbach Produced by Nico Hofmann Written by Stefan Kolditz Released by Music Box Films Germany. Part one: 131 min.; Part two: 148 min. Not rated English, German, & Polish with English subtitles With Volker Bruch, Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler, Ludwig Trepte & Miriam Stein Generation War sweeps away a half century of […]

Written & Directed by Peter Berg, based on the book by Marcus Luttrell & Patrick Robinson Produced by Mark Wahlberg, Mr. Berg, Sarah Aubrey, Randall Emmett, Norton Herrick, Barry Spikings, Akiva Goldsman, Stephen Levinson & Vitaly Grigogoriants Released by Universal Pictures USA. 121 min. Rated R With Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster, […]

Written & Directed by Wladyslaw Pasikowski Produced by Dariusz Jablonski, Violetta Kaminska & Izabela Wojcik Released by Menemsha Films Polish with English subtitles Poland/Netherlands/Russia/Slovakia. 104 min. Not rated With Maciej Stuhr, Ireneusz Czop, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Zuzana Fialova, Andrzej Mastalerz, Zbigniew Zamachowski & Danuta Szaflarska Aftermath, an intense thriller, exposes the corrosive effect of collective silence and lies […]

Directed by Eran Riklis Produced by Gareth Unwin & Fred Ritzenberg Written by Nader Rizq Released by Strand Releasing English, Hebrew & Arabic with English subtitles UK/Israel. 110 min. Not rated With Stephen Dorff, Abdallah El Akal, Alice Taglioni, Loai Noufi, Tarik Copti, Ashraf Barhom, Mira Awad, Ashraf Farah, Joni Arbid, & Ali Suliman Israel’s […]