Guy Lodge

When a devastating international crisis brings with it an inevitable surfeit of topical documentaries on the subject, audiences can be overwhelmed to the point of inactivity. No one outside the...

There was a time when scores of defiant adolescents asserted intellectual independence from their parents by turning their backs on religion. In this more agnostic age, picking up the Bible...

The scent of Southern climbing roses mingles with the ugly acridity of small-town racial prejudice in "Sophie and the Rising Sun," a safe, gentle-hearted romantic drama that succeeds most winningly...

Postcards from the edge — of grief, of rationality, and in just a few cases, of the German capital itself — are delivered by the dozen in "Alone in Berlin,"...

Life, as the introductory voiceover in "A Hundred Streets" informs us, ultimately amounts to little more than "long periods of waiting broken up by brief moments of change." In the...

Executed and even scripted with rhetorical intent, news reporter Christine Chubbuck's on-air suicide in 1974 was itself a kind of grotesque performance piece — until, at least, its completion took...

Serial murder has rarely seemed a more melancholy calling than it does in "The Eyes of My Mother," a short, decidedly unsweet and wholly startling vision from freshman writer-director Nicolas...

If "The Sound of Music" reps the Mother of all nun-out-of-water movies, and "Ida" the Superior, then Zach Clark's "Little Sister" is a far scrappier breed of rogue abbess. As...

"Everybody's very, very nervous," runs the most memorable lyrical refrain in "London Road," and one imagines the filmmakers found themselves singing it often. An avant-garde musical based on the recorded...