Rob Nelson

If a dominatrix is one who takes total control of her passive partner, then "R100" is the cinematic equivalent of a kinky femme fatale in black leather and stiletto heels,...

At two-and-a-quarter hours, "Killers" has plenty to offer genre fans -- provided they don't bolt during its opening scene of a tied-up woman being beaten to death with a mallet...

Vibrantly shot on location in the titular Tennessee city, "Memphis," the second film from Brooklyn-based writer-director Tim Sutton ("Pavillion"), is a digressive, daringly experimental study of a flailing musician, magnetically...

Written and directed by veteran documentarian Stanley Nelson ("The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords"), "Freedom Summer" expertly combines archival footage and photos with contemporary interviews to recall the pivotal 10-week...

A masterfully composed and suitably outraged look at the neocolonialist exploitation of South Sudan, "We Come as Friends" is, after "Darwin's Nightmare," the second part of Austrian documentarian Hubert Sauper's...

"Alive Inside" is a PSA-style salute to Nassau County, Fla.-based social worker Dan Cohen and his nonprofit Music and Memory organization, which advocates for the use of iPods in treating...

Channeling Jodie Foster in "The Silence of the Lambs," Kristen Stewart delivers a solid performance as a rookie Guantanamo Bay guard in "Camp X-Ray," a competently directed, politically questionable film...

Aired in three episodes on German TV, "Generation War" retains the feel of an epic serial in its two-part bigscreen form. Eight years in the making and nearly five hours...

Purporting to examine contemporary social malaise in the Netherlands, "The Dinner" is more entree than main course. Best known as screenwriter of several Steven Spielberg films in the '80s, writer-director...

The jittery energy and intelligence of actor Mathieu Amalric are the chief virtues of "Love Is the Perfect Crime," a sleek, blackly comic thriller in which a serial ladies man...