Ronnie Scheib

Indian mysticism takes a decidedly Gallic turn in writer-director Michel Spinosa's "His Wife." A man (Yves Attal) whose significant other has disappeared discovers that she died in India, where her...

Flaunting its bargain-basement budget for maximum grunge and weirdness, Joel Potrykus' "Buzzard" stars his regular collaborator, the inimitable Joshua Burge, this time as a disaffected temp -- an angry member...

To call Israeli helmer Eytan Fox's candy-colored, buoyantly upbeat musical a change of pace would be an understatement. Still, Fox's 2011 drama "Yossi" already ranked as a celebration, albeit in...

An Israeli soldier/interrogator and a Palestinian prisoner/artist face off across a hallucinatory no-man's land in Jessica Habie's fiction debut, "Mars at Sunrise." As in Roman Polanski's "Death and the Maiden,"...

One might think, given the experience and talent of those involved, that someone would have noticed that "Demi-soeur" was a recipe for disaster: A comedy about a mentally disabled person,...

Abandoning the debilitating hunt for Hollywood funding, Alexandre Rockwell gleefully returns to his freeform indie roots in "Little Feet." Loading a 16mm camera with black-and-white "short ends," he casts his...

Deborah Koons Garcia's "Symphony of the Soil" reps the latest in a long line of documentaries extolling the many virtues of organic farming over the nefarious legacy of industrial food...

A documentary about science for professionals and laypeople alike, "Particle Fever" celebrates an event of earth-shattering importance, though what far-ranging transformations it heralds remain unknown. The film follows six physicists...

Paradoxically, by choosing as his subject the revolutionist wife of uber-terrorist Carlos the Jackal, Israeli documentarian Nadav Schirman emerges with a flattened-out portrait of a docile, unemancipated spouse heedlessly following...

A life of crime looms as potential salvation for two middle-aged family men left high and dry by the economic recession in "Here's the Deal," first-time Spanish director Alejandro Marzoa's...