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"Hysteria"

By Melissa Anderson, May 23, 2012

The origin story of a beloved bedroom gadget, Hysteria, set in London in the 1880s, proceeds as a tedious, clumsy diddle, constantly reminding... More>>

"Keyhole"

By Karina Longworth, May 23, 2012

The latest phantasmagoria of cinematic quotation from Canadian director Guy Maddin, Keyhole is an extremely loose adaptation of the Odyssey.... More>>

"Polisse"

By Karina Longworth, May 23, 2012

An episodic ensemble piece based on cases handled by Paris's Child Protection Unit, Polisse is a mutant beast: Imagine an entire season of Law &... More>>

"Whores' Glory"

By Mark Holcomb, May 23, 2012

As with meat processing and politics, the day-to-day drama, tedium, and heartbreak of prostitution have little to do with our spoon-fed fantasies... More>>

"Men in Black 3"

By Nick Pinkerton, May 23, 2012

Men in Black 3 reunites the series stars Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones with director Barry Sonnenfeld, who, beginning with 1991's The Addams... More>>

Arthouse Movie Listings May 23-29, 2012

By SF Weekly Staff, May 23, 2012

Artists' Television Access. Periwinkle Cinema Presents: SELF-REFLEXIVE: Experimental shorts about queer self-identity. Wed., May 23, 8 p.m. $6.... More>>

The Summer Movie Rises: Twenty Films to Watch Out For

Summer Movie Preview

By Aaron Hillis, May 16, 2012

Illustration by Andrew J. Nilsen. In a movie season worshipped for its CGI-boosted, spiritually bankrupt juvenilia, it's heartening to know... More>>

"Red Hook Summer"

By Aaron Hillis, May 16, 2012

Do the Right Thing's pizza delivery boy Mookie may make an early cameo, but don't call Spike Lee's ambitious, uncompromising, and musically... More>>

"Battleship"

By Nick Pinkerton, May 16, 2012

Every once in a while, a movie comes along that's so utterly shameless that it achieves a certain grandeur. Peter Berg's Battleship, which I... More>>

"Bernie"

By Nick Pinkerton, May 16, 2012

The script for Bernie was in part dictated from the stand: In a 1997 murder trial in Carthage, Texas, Bernhardt "Bernie" Tiede, a closeted... More>>

"The Dictator"

By Karina Longworth, May 16, 2012

In The Dictator, Admiral General Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen), dictator of fictional North African nation Wadiya, travels to New York to defend... More>>

"Elles"

By Brian Miller, May 16, 2012

As she prepares for a dinner party and fields rude dismissals from her two spoiled sons, journalist Anne (Juliette Binoche) thinks back on her... More>>

"Mansome"

By Nick Pinkerton, May 16, 2012

"I think that men are having an identity crisis, but they don't really know it." So says "biological anthropologist" Helen Fisher, speaking in... More>>

"Payback"

By Mark Holcomb, May 16, 2012

With its novel approach and wider-than-usual scope, this riff on Margaret Atwood's 2008 book-length essay, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of... More>>

"What To Expect When You're Expecting"

By Eric Hynes, May 16, 2012

Heidi Murkoff's mega-bestselling manual, What to Expect When You're Expecting, actually makes perfect sense as a vehicle for a contemporary... More>>

"Where Do We Go Now?"

By Alison Willmore, May 16, 2012

If women were in charge, there'd be peace in the Middle East—or at least that's what's suggested by Where Do We Go Now?, the second film... More>>

Arthouse Movie Listings May 16-22, 2012

By SF Weekly Staff, May 16, 2012

Artists' Television Access. Gaze:Home: International showcase of works by women filmmakers. Thu., May 17, 8 p.m. $6. CCSF Directing Students... More>>

"Dark Shadows"

By Nick Pinkerton, May 09, 2012

Dark Shadows slips the Tim Burton treatment to the supernaturally themed daily daytime soap of the same name, which aired on ABC from 1966 to... More>>

"Darling Companion"

By Melissa Anderson, May 09, 2012

"Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms," George Eliot once wrote. That's certainly the appeal... More>>

"First Position"

By Nick Schager, May 09, 2012

The nonfiction formula pioneered by Spellbound leads to frustrating superficiality in First Position, a glossy documentary about a multicultural... More>>

"God Bless America"

By Nick Pinkerton, May 09, 2012

In one week, Frank (Joel Murray), a divorced, fiftyish, glumly alcoholic white-collar worker, loses his job, becomes completely estranged from... More>>

"Here"

By Karina Longworth, May 09, 2012

Will (Ben Foster) — a lone-wolf American cartographer on contract to collect data on the ground to match to satellite maps in Armenia's... More>>

"Last Call at the Oasis"

By Michelle Orange, May 09, 2012

"We're screwed" is the overbearing subtext of so many environmental documentaries that it's a relief to hear someone just come out and say it in... More>>

"Michael"

By Nick Pinkerton, May 09, 2012

Michael (Michael Fuith) is a thirtysomething unmarried insurance agent who, by necessity, meticulously keeps up domestic ritual. Michael, you... More>>