Once upon a time, a man leaked secrets to expose government's failings, not to protect them. Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith's Oscar-nominated... More >>
Few movies have explored the thin line between vigilant law enforcement and rampant abuse of authority better than Antoine Fuqua's gritty 2001... More >>
My 8-year-old said the Belgian animated feature A Town Called Panic reminded her of the Disney Channel's Phineas and Ferb, and in my household... More >>
Based on Beantown crime novelist Dennis Lehane's best-selling 2003 thriller, Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island is being billed as a rare foray... More >>
The only thing that disappoints me more than the unwillingness to watch a black-and-white film with subtitles is the notion that movies shouldn't... More >>
British director Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank shows that the tradition of kitchen-sink realism is alive and well. Set on a housing estate in Essex,... More >>
Acclaimed biographer Peter Guralnick's admiration for and love of gospel and soul legend Sam Cooke's music has yielded two magnificent projects.... More >>
One of the perpetual dilemmas in writing about Chantal Akerman's brilliant early feature Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, is... More >>