One Cut, One Life is a fitting coda to the career of seminal documentarian Ed Pincus, yet it rarely feels elegiac, it’s a vital and probing work of personal filmmaking. A pioneer in the field of direct cinema, both as a filmmaker and as a teacher, Pi …Read more

When their plane is prevented from going to Dallas because of torrential rain, business travelers Les (Matthew Broderick) and Natalie (Alice Eve) are forced to confront a day spent in Albuquerque, in Neil LaBute’s Dirty Weekend. Les is blustery and p …Read more

Over the course of his decades long career, Ken Loach, especially when collaborating with writer Paul Laverty, has shown a singular talent for taking political ideas and vividly illustrating them through films, while staying true to the complexity of …Read more

Teenagers are at the center of many of the films at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival, just as they are at the center of an overwhelming amount of independent film in general. Often it’s a case of young, first-time directors making films about a time in …Read more

In Far From Men, director David Oelhoffen weaves several varied threads into an utterly unique and compelling film. On the surface, it’s a rugged adventure story in which a man must transport a prisoner across hostile terrain, a plot that recalls man …Read more

In The Driftless Area, Zooey Deschanel plays a woman who may or may not be dead. Caught between worlds, she’s alluring and likable, but ultimately unable to provide any insights into why she’s there, something like the film itself. The Driftless Area …Read more

Mojave opens with an interview of an unidentified star (Garrett Hedlund), unhappy with fame, invoking Byron and Rimbaud and asking, “When you get what you wanted, what do you want?” From there, the next fifteen minutes are an almost entirely wordless …Read more

Peruvian filmmaker Claudia Llosa makes her English language debut with Aloft, a curious mixture of falconry and faith healing. Featuring an impressive cast including Jennifer Connelly, Cillian Murphy, and Melanie Laurent, Aloft features strong perfor …Read more

Shimmering with menace and mystery, Bridgend takes an ongoing tragedy and imbues it with the timeless quality of a pitch-dark fairy tale. Set in a small town in Wales where over 70 people have committed suicide since 2007, most coming from the same c …Read more

As critics ourselves, we’re always pleased to celebrate filmmakers who started out as critics, like the director Christoph Hochhäusler. After helping to found the influential German film magazine Revolver, which he is still involved with, Hochhäusler …Read more