The word “limpid” kept coming to mind when I thought of how to describe Marielle Heller, the actress and first-time director of The Diary…
The first time I wrote a real music review, real like for money, I choked. I'd done all the research, the interviews, everything. But…
In the opening scenes of Zal Batmanglij's The East, it's established that protagonist Sarah Moss (co-screenwriter Brit Marling) is a devout Christian. But as…
If you plan to see Scott McGehee and David Siegel's What Maisie Knew, this is your homework: Watch Mark Rappaport's From the Journals of…
Director Henry Alex Rubin has only helmed documentaries before Disconnect, so it seems fair to cut him some slack for dramatic creakiness. Still, after…
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…
The first thing you see in Lars von Trier's Melancholia is a close-up of Kirsten Dunst's face. Behind her, slow as molasses, birds are…
