REVIEW: ‘The Lunchbox’ ★★★ 1/2
To the small but choice list of films that gracefully mix a passion for food with other potent emotions — think "Babette's Feast," "Eat Drink Man Woman," "Big Night," even...
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REVIEW: ‘The Bag Man’ ★ 1/2
There are so many good reasons to bag "The Bag Man." Where to begin? Director David Grovic, who co-wrote the mobster thriller with Paul Conway, seems to be inspired by...
REVIEW: ‘The Last of the Unjust’ ★★★ 1/2
With the groundbreaking 91/2-hour "Shoah" and similar documentaries to his credit, it would be understandable if filmmaker Claude Lanzmann felt he'd spent enough time dealing with the Holocaust. But the...
REVIEW: ‘Stranger by the Lake’ ★★★
Despite the sunshine, gentle breezes and placid waters, something wicked this way comes in "Stranger by the Lake," French filmmaker Alain Guiraudie's tantalizingly erotic fable of love, passion and death....
REVIEW: ‘Stranger by the Lake’ ★★★
Despite the sunshine, gentle breezes and placid waters, something wicked this way comes in "Stranger by the Lake," French filmmaker Alain Guiraudie's tantalizingly erotic fable of love, passion and death....
REVIEW: ‘The Last of the Unjust’ ★★★ 1/2
With the groundbreaking 91/2-hour "Shoah" and similar documentaries to his credit, it would be understandable if filmmaker Claude Lanzmann felt he'd spent enough time dealing with the Holocaust. But the...
REVIEW: ‘Stranger by the Lake’ ★★★
Despite the sunshine, gentle breezes and placid waters, something wicked this way comes in "Stranger by the Lake," French filmmaker Alain Guiraudie's tantalizingly erotic fable of love, passion and death....
REVIEW: ‘Gloria’ ★★★ 1/2
There is a naturalistic charm to the truth-telling going on in "Gloria," Chilean director Sebastian Lelio's near-perfect film about the very imperfect world of a divorced woman of a certain...
REVIEW: ‘Gloria’ ★★★ 1/2
There is a naturalistic charm to the truth-telling going on in "Gloria," Chilean director Sebastian Lelio's near-perfect film about the very imperfect world of a divorced woman of a certain...
REVIEW: ‘Broken Circle Breakdown’ ★★ 1/2
Bluegrass music and films in the Flemish language are not usually thought of in the same breath, but "The Broken Circle Breakdown" is determined to marry them. The result, not...