Review: ‘The Dog’ ★★★ 1/2
If "Dog Day Afternoon" was Hollywood's fiery snapshot of Brooklyn bank robber John Wojtowicz's legendary 1972 standoff with authorities and the media, then Allison Berg's and Frank Keraudren's engrossing new...
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Review: ‘Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon’ ★★ 1/2
What do Alice Cooper, Anne Murray, Groucho Marx and Emeril Lagasse have in common? Bespectacled, good-natured talent manager Shep Gordon, whose ruthlessly inventive star-building acumen and easygoing, nurturing personality inspired...
Review: ‘No God, No Master’ ★★
Dreadfully earnest about its politics in the manner of John Sayles at his preachiest, the indie historical thriller "No God, No Master" draws a line from the civil unrest of...
A journalist abroad, charting America’s clandestine ‘Dirty Wars’ ★★★
Richard Rowley's documentary "Dirty Wars" is a sobering account of acclaimed journalist Jeremy Scahill's reporting on the war on terror in the Middle East and Africa, and the effect its...
A journalist abroad, charting America’s clandestine ‘Dirty Wars’ ★★★
Richard Rowley's documentary "Dirty Wars" is a sobering account of acclaimed journalist Jeremy Scahill's reporting on the war on terror in the Middle East and Africa, and the effect its...
Actors Prep in the Lines of Fire
Recently, Emily Mortimer says, she and her fellow cast members on HBO's "The Newsroom" decided that bringing Aaron Sorkin's rhythmic and plentiful dialogue to life "is like doing an action...
‘Yossi’ a poignant sequel, 10 years later
Ten years after Israeli filmmaker Eytan Fox's "Yossi and Jagger," a tale of tragic romance between gay army soldiers stationed in Lebanon, comes a sweet, sad and short follow-up called...
‘Yossi’ a poignant sequel, 10 years later
Ten years after Israeli filmmaker Eytan Fox's "Yossi and Jagger," a tale of tragic romance between gay army soldiers stationed in Lebanon, comes a sweet, sad and short follow-up called...
‘North Sea, Texas’: Belgian boy finds a soul mate
Fragile and romantic, the well-acted Belgian coming-of-age drama "North Sea, Texas" depicts the tentative steps from friendship to love that consume a lonely 14-year-old boy in a small coastal town....
‘North Sea, Texas’: Belgian boy finds a soul mate
Fragile and romantic, the well-acted Belgian coming-of-age drama "North Sea, Texas" depicts the tentative steps from friendship to love that consume a lonely 14-year-old boy in a small coastal town....