Perfectly mounted slice of life works both as a snapshot of Georgian lower depths and as an emblematic study of post-Soviet existence. No-budget, no-tears treatment makes this an austere item to…
A woman's selective amnesia and ambient sense of guilt set off an intriguing series of events in "Modern Comforts," a carefully made, thoroughly engaging debut by writer-director Dominique Choisy. An…
The best Turkish movie since last year's "Journey to the Sun" and similarly free of the usual ethnic cliches, "A Run for Money" reps an impressive sophomore outing by writer-director Reha Erdem…
An energetic but ultimately thoughtless sendup of the outlaw gangster mentality, "Old School" is a low-rent cousin of famed Belgian mockumentary "Man Bites Dog." Made by and starring a batch of…
Pacy direction by Wesley Enoch, inventive staging and top-notch performances make first-time playwright Jane Harrison's "Stolen" a night of potently memorable, vibrant and thought-provoking theater…
To whip their forthcoming live daily talkshow into shape, the host and cast rent a house together for the month of August in "La Bostella." The villa's forlorn, dry pool is an apt metaphor for this…
Based on a true story, "A House Divided" explores the legal battle over a black woman's inheritance of her white father's estate in mid-1800s Georgia. But to say that this original film is just a…
It's hard to say whether this collage-like essay is a serious provocation or an elaborately mirthless joke. Either way, few auds will stick around for its slow parade of wooden tableaux masquerading…
Highly tooled visuals, with a very different look from most British pics, give "Sorted" a momentarily fresh appeal before the weakly developed script jumps the rails in the second half. Drama about a…
Lionya loves Vera, Vera loves Ivan, Ivan loves Galia, Galia loves Marga and auds will love the lobby by the time this superficial and cliche-ridden Russian period sudser grinds to a halt. Yet another…
Rigorous yet engrossing, Ruth Beckermann's "A Fleeting Passage to the Orient" retraces the steps of Austria's peripatetic "sad empress" Elizabeth during two trips to Egypt in 1885 and 1891. The…
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