Good intentions don't always — it's tempting to say rarely — make for commendable cinema. The absolute best that you can say for Max Mayer's Adam is that it definitely means well. read more …

A freewheeling, fast-paced doc that's almost as fun to watch (and often more so) as the wild and woolly films it spotlights, Mark Hartley's Not Quite Hollywood outlines the history of read more …

Considering the way in which it became instantly notorious at Sundance, it might almost seem that Lynn Shelton's Humpday begins and ends with its notorious premise — two schlubs agree to make read more …

When he’s not feeling compelled to decry the suburbs as the circle of hell which Dante dared not describe, director Sam Mendes actually has a sense of humor. It helps that the script, by husband-and-wife

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An opening title reads: "Since 1979 the Afghan people have suffered foreign invasions, civil war and Taliban rule." The obvious punchline would be, "So why should they be forced to suffer through crap read more …

The friendship between three of the 20th century's greatest artists — poet Federico García Lorca, painter Salvador Dalí and filmmaker Luis Buñuel — offers limitless possibilities for exploration, read more …

Ramin Bahrani has proven himself adept at chronicling the lives of people living under the radar of the American dream — immigrants, the poverty-stricken, the neglected. The Iranian-American director's read more …

Noël Coward doesn't show up on screen much these days, and Stephan Elliott's confused take on Easy Virtue illustrates precisely why. It's nearly impossible to extricate Coward's read more …

Sam Raimi may be returning to his genre roots with Drag Me to Hell, but he does so in the manner of someone rolling up to the ramshackle family farm in a stretch limo. As giddy as the Fangoria read more …

In his earliest films, Atom Egoyan documented families whose personal connections had been fragmented by the intrusion of video screens. His view of communities alienated by the lens of history has since read more …