Review: “Dirty Wars”
Filed from the frontlines of the war on terror, documentarian Richard Rowley's astonishingly hard-hitting "Dirty Wars" renders the investigative work of journalist Jeremy Scahill in the form of a…
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Review: “Valentine Road”
Nothing if not timely, director Marta Cunningham's richly detailed, deeply affecting docu "Valentine Road" burrows into the case of a 2008 school shooting that took the life of Lawrence "Larry" King.
Review: “Escape From Tomorrow”
Shot without permits at Disney World, "Escape From Tomorrow" is a sneakily subversive exercise in low-budget surrealism and anti-corporate satire.
Review: “Lovelace”
Reducing an immensely disturbing, politically byzantine tale to a series of cartoonish vignettes, this celeb-studded biopic squanders a gutsy performance by Amanda Seyfried while making '70s porn…
Review: “Concussion”
The unjust dearth of Sapphic cinema helps explain, more than excuse, the desperate "Concussion," a head injury of a film in which a middle-aged suburban femme with a frigid wife and a bump on the…
Review: “The Spectacular Now”
Skillfully adapted from Tim Tharp's novel, evocatively lensed in the working-class neighborhoods of Athens, Ga., and tenderly acted by Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley, this bittersweet ode to the…
Review: “Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus and 2012”
A selfish man-child's Chilean quest to drink mescaline extracted from a San Pedro cactus turns into a more conventional sort of trip in Sebastian Silva's emphatically goofy but ultimately sentimental…
Review: “Feng shui”
Grimmer as it goes, "Feng shui" begins as a black comedy about a wife's hilariously extreme intolerance of her milquetoast hubby before segueing into a sacrificial-mom meller a la "Stella Dallas."…
Review: “Flashback Memories”
Director Tetsuaki Matsue's raucously psychedelic experience deserves cult-film status, although its all-important third dimension stands to limit adequate exhibition.
Review: “The Black Square”
Named for a Kubrickian monolith from which emerges a man with no memory, "The Black Square" is a puzzler sans purpose.
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Domestic Film: WEEKEND Of 06.14.13
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