“If I could write a screenplay about my life,” says Choi Eun-hee, the 89 year old South Korean actress, “I would only include the glamorous shots.” Lucky for Choi, she’s the star of Rob Cannan’s and Ross Adam’s engrossingly glossy doc, The Lovers and …Read more

“I feel like Pinocchio and it kills me,” says Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg), the painfully timid worker-bee of “The Double”. It’s one of the only lines that computes. Inspired by Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1866 novella of the same name, “The Double” is set …Read more

“Night Moves” deserves some recognition for its taut atmosphere. In the fifth feature from Kelly Reichardt, three young radicals cobble together to blow up a hydroelectric dam in Oregon. For Josh (Jesse Eisenberg) and Dena (Dakota Fanning), the reaso …Read more

Andrew Scott is an actor who deserves a movie script that will really let audiences see his talent. “The Bachelor Weekend”, while funnier and funnier as it goes, is too safe and farcical to do the trick; so he wonderfully wriggles around the fuss. Th …Read more

“Lucky Them” begins crisply as editor Giles (a sharp Oliver Platt) tells veteran music-critic Ellie Klug (Toni Collette) that her job with his Seattle magazine rests on her finding out the fate of a mysteriously vanished rock star; a somewhat unreaso …Read more

John (an appealing John Diaz) is smart enough to know a few things, like he should probably eat his mom’s vegetables and treat his girlfriend with respect. He also knows that feeling in the dark about his murdered father isn’t easy, especially given …Read more

From its blooper-like beginning, the documentary “Finding Vivian Maier” begs you not to take it seriously, which is strange given the ardent effort by director John Maloof to literally develop the work of his eponymous subject. At the movie’s cutesy …Read more

Though it ultimately stumbles, Tom Gilroy’s “The Cold Lands” begins a promising observance of the intricate forces capable of driving mothers and sons apart. The always-welcome Lili Taylor plays Nicole, single mother of Atticus (Silas Yelich), an ele …Read more

“I wanted them to be scared out of their minds”—-the tag-line for Robert May’s unnerving documentary “Kids for Cash”— might just be what the director is wishing for his audience, too. The quote belong to Mark Ciavarella, the corrupt judge and now …Read more

The best way to see “Mars at Sunrise”, the clever first feature from director Jessica Habie, is probably with a solid understanding of the border conflicts between Israel and Palestine. Then again, maybe that’s Habie’s point: the conflicts are terrib …Read more