Preparing a lush meal for dinner guests in her ultra-modern kitchen, Kate (Hilary Swank) loses her grip on a glass, sending it shattering down into the sink. Staring at her hand, the expression on her face says it all: something is wrong. Up until th …Read more

“I was conscious in my mother’s womb,” a wise Indian voice opens the film to abstract images of light and water and the tune of Hindu music, “feeling the movements in her body, aware of my own helpless state, this body bundle of bones is not I…On o …Read more

“It’s gentle and rousing, just what we like, between euphoria and melancholy;” Paul (Felix de Givry) gives this poetic description of his music in a radio interview halfway through Eden, but it can also describe Eden itself, Mia Hansen-Love’s film ab …Read more

Time out of Mind is the second film of this year’s New York Film Festival to deal with New York City homeless, but is very different from Heaven Knows What; where the Safdie brother’s film is a stylized look at the never-ending drama of junkies tryin …Read more

At first glance, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice seems like a return to the energetic, large ensemble pieces that marked the first part of his career (Boogie Nights in particular, because of the 1970 setting), but look closer and within the laby …Read more

I Am Ali attempts to give a new perspective on one of the twentieth century’s most fascinating, controversial, and inspirational figures, Muhammad Ali. Ali is already the subject of documentaries and Michael Mann’s biopic; this new film uses intervie …Read more

With the face of a miniature James Cagney, Alane Delhaye’s little Quinquin makes us smile from the second we see him. Short blond hair, eyes full of wonder and know-it-all-ness and a cynical grin, that make him feel like an anachronism, he is indeed …Read more

With Gone Girl, David Fincher takes another dark-hearted bestseller and crafts it into a gripping, atmospheric thriller. For those who haven’t yet had the book pushed on them, the story centers on the marriage of Nick (Ben Affleck) and Amy Dunne (Ros …Read more

It’s de rigueur for Hollywood satires to portray the conversations and mindsets of actors and the entertainment elite as painfully superficial and Maps to the Stars is no exception. But in this film, the product of a world-class meeting of misanthrop …Read more

Reviews ’71 (Demange, 2014) Beloved Sisters (Graf, 2014) Birdman (Iñárritu, 2014) Clouds of Sils Maria (Assayas, 2014) Eden (Hansen Love, 2014) Foxcatcher (Miller, 2014) Gone Girl (Fincher, 2014) Goodbye to Language (Godard, 2014) Heaven Knows What ( …Read more