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"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>>

"The Perfect Family"

By Eric Hynes, May 09, 2012

There's a vague echo of John Waters's film Serial Mom in director Anne Renton's The Perfect Family. But where Waters's satiric look at the... More>>

"A Little Bit of Heaven"

By Nick Pinkerton, May 02, 2012

A successful young New Orleans ad exec living a no-frills, booty-on-call, single-by-choice lifestyle, Marley Corbett has a sunny irreverence and... More>>

"The Fairy"

By Aaron Hillis, May 02, 2012

Since their irresistibly madcap 2005 debut Iceberg, Belgium-based filmmakers, actors, and former clowns Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, and Bruno... More>>

"Headhunters"

By Melissa Anderson, May 02, 2012

Arguably the strangest of the many recent Scandinavian movies to rifle through modern American-indie tropes and then cash in by getting bought up... More>>

"The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel"

By Nick Pinkerton, May 02, 2012

The British have practically cornered the multiplex's senior demo (think Waking Ned Devine and Calendar Girls) and look to be continuing the run... More>>