As their second remake and their second literary adaptation, True Grit is especially weighted with ties to the past, although Joel and Ethan Coen don’t concern themselves overly with the 1969 adaptation read more …

In its bare outlines, Lee Chang-dong’s story about an old woman (Yun Jung-hee) whose working vocabulary is being eroded by Alzheimer’s enrolling in a poetry class sounds like a middlebrow feel-good special. read more …

Remaking a 1960 South Korean classic, Im Sang-soo (The President’s Last Bang) structures his lush film as a series of riffs but never gets around to playing the melody. Jeon Do-yeon plays a timid read more …

Horror movies are only as good as the ideas behind them, and the one behind Brad Anderson's Vanishing on 7th Street simply isn't very good. Imagine for a moment that you're afraid read more …

The atmosphere Sofia Coppola creates in her fourth feature is so lovely, it’s a shame when it’s roiled by the encroachment of plot. As the opening shot, a static long take in which his sports car drives read more …

Teaming for the third time with director Hans Petter Molland (Aberdeen, Zero Kelvin), Stellan Skarsgård plays a tight-lipped convict re-entering the world, unsure whether he’d rather still read more …

Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu is well rid of screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga (Amores Perros, Babel), whose penchant for converging storylines has long passed the point of parody. But he’s still read more …

CSI veteran Richard J. Lewis makes the jump to features with the sprawling story of Barney Panofsky (Paul Giamatti), a hack TV producer who's an intellectual and romantic on the side. Spanning read more …

Choked with forced magic and strained whimsy, Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist would be dreadful even if it didn’t insult the legacy of the great Jacques Tati. Rewritten from an unfilmed script read more …

In Mike Leigh’s dusky film, Tom (Jim Broadbent) and Gerri (Ruth Sheen) are a couple growing old with grace. Not so Gerri’s co-worker Mary (Lesley Manville), a see-sawing emotional wreck who goes from read more …