Joe Leydon

Much like most of the songs performed by the band whose misadventures drive its wispy plot, "Big in Japan" comes off as pleasantly diverting, vaguely familiar and instantly disposable. Real-life...

First-time feature filmmaker Leah Meyerhoff spins a familiar but affecting coming-of-age tale in "I Believe in Unicorns," a sensitively observed and arrestingly impressionistic drama that feels at once deeply personal...

Smallscreen platforms doubtless will be the primary showcases for "Creep," a slow-burning found-footage suspenser with some mildly clever twists and a knockout payoff. But any genre fan who's able to...

Although "The Attorney" may not have nearly the same sociopolitical resonance for audiences outside South Korea, where it was a major box office hit, director Yang Woo-seok's impressive debut feature...

Serial spoofers Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer ("Meet the Spartans," "Disaster Movie") hit rock bottom last year while scraping the bottom of the barrel with "The Starving Games." But that...

It may seem counterintuitive to describe a psychosexual thriller as a pleasant surprise, but "Forgetting the Girl" really is the sort of small-budget gem that belies the familiarity of its...

Although it's based on a novella by George Sand -- a "French novella," as the opening credits helpfully inform us -- "Red Wing" may remind movie buffs more of the...

The makers of "Grace Unplugged" deserve at least some credit for resisting temptations toward melodramatic excess in spinning their story about a young Christian singer's flirtation with secular stardom. But...

Too many stretches of "Wedding Palace" are so garishly lit and broadly overplayed that they seem more cartoonish than the actual animated sequences that pepper the live-action production. That's a...

Multihyphenate Leland Orser more inspires grudging respect for his austere storytelling than emotional empathy for his anguished characters in " Morning ," an initially intriguing but ultimately exhausting tale of...