Review: Blue Ruin ★★ 1/2
"Blue Ruin" is a moody, stripped-down action thriller with the most unlikely vigilante one could imagine. Dwight (Macon Blair) is no buffed-up hero, but a soft and skittish loner who...
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Review: ‘Child’s Pose’ ★★★★
"Child's Pose" sounds like something simple and easy, but don't be fooled. This stunning film from Romania, exceptionally written, directed and acted and winner of the Berlin Film Festival's prestigious...
Review: ‘Watermark’ ★★★ 1/2
This remarkable documentary about global water use also captures the element's majesty and beauty. If "Watermark" does nothing else, it will make you question society's contradictory view of water use....
Review: ‘Big Men’ ★★★★
No single resource is more essential to modern life than oil, and no film offers a more incisive look at how the enormous wealth oil creates subverts the morality of...
Review: ‘Big Men’ ★★★★
No single resource is more essential to modern life than oil, and no film offers a more incisive look at how the enormous wealth oil creates subverts the morality of...
REVIEW: ‘Anita’ ★★★★
If the name Anita Hill means anything at all to you, you won't need any encouragement to see a compelling documentary featuring this usually private woman talking with exceptional candor...
REVIEW: ‘Ernest & Celestine’ ★★★★
"Ernest & Celestine," the charming French-Belgium, Oscar-nominated animated film, is about a bear and a mouse whose artistic tendencies are forever getting them into trouble. Marked as outsiders by their...
REVIEW: ‘Anita’ ★★★★
If the name Anita Hill means anything at all to you, you won't need any encouragement to see a compelling documentary featuring this usually private woman talking with exceptional candor...
REVIEW: ‘Ernest & Celestine’ ★★★★
"Ernest & Celestine," the charming French-Belgium, Oscar-nominated animated film, is about a bear and a mouse whose artistic tendencies are forever getting them into trouble. Marked as outsiders by their...
REVIEW: ‘Bad Words’ ★★★
Sarcastic, sanctimonious, salacious, sly, slight and surprisingly sweet, the black comedy of "Bad Words," starring and directed by Jason Bateman, is high-minded, foul-mouthed good nonsense. I had wondered where Bateman's...