Peter Debruge

Privileging psychic scars over physical violence, and battling aggression with introspection, Singaporean director Boo Junfeng's "Apprentice" focuses its attention on the staff, concentrating on a soft-spoken corrections officer who finds...

"I like to think that I'm gay in my art and straight in my life," Gay James Franco told Straight James Franco in a split-personality interview for Four Two Nine...

Celia Rowlson-Hall has the body of a tomboy, the brain of a feminist and an imagination quite unlike anyone else. In her dance-based, dreamlike feature debut, the svelte young woman...

Struggling with not only his sexuality but also his identity as a young Korean-American, the closeted son of immigrant parents turns to Los Angeles' cruisy Korean sauna scene in hopes...

If Michel Gondry's movies were books, they'd come with hand-stitched covers, fold-out pop-ups and a progression of flipbook-style doodles in the bottom corner of every page. No other working director...

Having wrapped his Texas trilogy — "The Passage," "Low Tide" and "Stop the Pounding Heart" — Italian chronicler of the American margins Roberto Minervini heads next door to Louisiana, where...

Classical music fans have learned to anticipate the infamous hammer blows that fall at the end of Gustav Mahler's Sixth Symphony, waiting with bated breath for the percussionist, who stands...

Animals are people, too — at least, that's what Steve Wise and the Nonhuman Rights Project hope to convince the world in "Unlocking the Cage," a tiresome, five-year account of...

Two Mexican mini-luchadores die with their masks on in "Bleak Street," a slow, lunatic swirl into the hopes, kinks and day-to-day hustle of a handful of Mexico City characters so...

Chantal Akerman's "No Home Movie" is not, as its enigmatic title might suggest, a deconstruction of or attack on the home-movie tradition — that amateur pastime of documenting private family...