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‘The Sound and the Fury’ review: Franco wrestles Faulkner again
While his ambitions frequently exceed his reach — sometimes by a substantial distance — James Franco gets an undeserved amount of grief for his various auteurist projects. It's hard to...
‘Meet the Patels’ review: Parents are stars of son’s search for bride
"Meet the Patels," a documentary directed by first-generation Indian-American siblings Geeta V. Patel and Ravi V. Patel about the latter's attempt to find a wife through traditional Indian means, is...
‘The Mend’ review: Brothers behaving badly
Debutant feature writer John Magary directs with a great deal of verve, imbuing even the most drawn-out scenes (as his frequently are) with a clipped, punkish energy. He has a...
‘Stray Dog’ review: Portrait of a Vietnam vet
You may think you know Ron "Stray Dog" Hall from the early scenes of his namesake documentary: A paunchy, sixtysomething Missouri Vietnam vet, Hall is first seen hanging around the...
‘Break Point’ review: Well-matched team in Sisto, Walton
Undeniably likable in its own breezy, resolutely unambitious way, Jay Karas' tennis movie "Break Point" manages to generate decent laughs, even if its reliance on indie-comedy formula borders on the...
‘An Eye for Beauty’ review: Love triangle lacks passion
It's been a decade since Denys Arcand became the first French-Canadian director to win an Oscar for foreign-language film with his still-potent "The Barbarian Invasions," but watching his latest, "An...
‘Poltergeist’ review: Spiritless reboot is heeeere
The closing credits for Gil Kenan's remake of the 1982 horror classic "Poltergeist" feature the band Spoon covering the Cramps' 1980 punk classic "TV Set." Spoon is a tasteful, studious...
Film Review: ‘Man From Reno’
A bilingual genre two-hander in search of common ground between Haruki Murakami's low-key alienation and the Coen brothers' deadpan existentialism, Dave Boyle's "Man From Reno" is hardly the equal of...
Billy Bragg’s Charity Gives Guitars To Inmates
Since 2007, British folk-punk troubadour Billy Bragg has been providing guitars and guitar lessons for prison inmates throughout the U.K. via his Jail Guitar Doors organization. In 2009, he found...
Film Review: ‘Stray Dog’
You may think you know Ron "Stray Dog" Hall from the early scenes of his namesake documentary: A paunchy, sixtysomething Missouri Vietnam vet, Hall is first seen hanging around the...