Based on the novel by Robert Littell (which was already made into a 1981 film of the same name), The Amateur is the story of an introverted decoder and analyst […]

In some ways, it’s a wonder a film like Janet Planet, a quiet but quite lovely rumination on mother-daughter relationships, can even get made these days. Writer/director Annie Baker, in […]

Exploring the worlds of dreams and nightmares, as well as providing an insightful glimpse into the phenomenon of fame for being famous, Norwegian-born writer/director Kristoffer Borgli (Sick of Myself) has […]

It should come as a surprise to no one that when approaching his own biopic, song-parody performer “Weird” Al Yankovic would be mostly incapable of telling his story seriously. In […]

Blonde, the new film by Andrew Dominik (Killing Them Softly, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford), is a torturous 2 hours and 46 minutes long, most […]

Like reading books or wandering an art gallery, one of the best aspects of film is its ability to transport us to worlds and experiences that we’d never otherwise experience […]

The aptly titled Weightless is all about an aimless man named Joel (Alessandro Nivola) who meets and must parent his emotionally damaged, 10-year-old son Will (newcomer Eli Haley), who has […]

From writer-director Matthew Newton (From Nowhere) comes a story of people who struggle to keep at bay the things that have gotten them into trouble in the past. Who We […]

This exquisite biopic from director Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl, The Finest Hours) asks you to consider—or perhaps “reconsider” is the better word—everything you think you know about […]