“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

Tomorrow We Disappear The puppeteers, magicians and street artists of the Kathputli colony in Delhi are a dying breed, and the current Indian government seems keen on exterminating whatever’s left of them…or so we’re meant to understand from “Tomor …Read more

If you sort through the jumble of indies, documentaries, and foreign films premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, you’ll manage to find a couple of horror films. Their genre both separates them from the pack and binds them together. Yet, aside from …Read more

Lou Howe’s “Gabriel” tries so hard to turn its protagonist into a modern day Holden Caulfield, that it seems to forget its hero still must exist in a universe populated by least important characters. Rory Culkin plays the title role, a troubled young …Read more

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Broken Hill Blues While plot isn’t necessarily the most important thing in a film (sometimes it barely matters at all) the utter lack of anything for us to grab onto in Sofia Norlin’s “Broken Hill Blues” makes it more of an endurance test than a moti …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

Few films open with a scene detailing the color choice of a new tractor and end with four naked, mature men getting in bed together but “The King of Escape” is in a category of its own.  The film, originally released in 2009 in France, is receiving i …Read more

The popular 2005 film “Mad Hot Ballroom” chronicled the introduction of ballroom dance classes to New York City schools and made a case for the importance of arts education.  Several years later, a new documentary has been released on a similar progr …Read more

It is easy, because of the split release schedule, to approach “Nymphomaniac” as two separate films, critiquing them on their individual merits. Giving way to this temptation makes it even easier to write off “Volume 2” as the inferior and more probl …Read more