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Review: Stake Land

Tale of a vampire plague
From producer Larry Fessenden ( Wendigo ) and filmmaker Jim Mickle ( Mulberry Street ) comes this minimal, profound tale of a vampire plague in America.

By: PEG ALOI | April 27, 2011

Review: The Future

Heartbreaking stream-of-consciousness
I think any movie with an ailing kitten wearing one of those little casts has won me over already.

By: PETER KEOUGH | April 27, 2011

A benighted slice of Americana
Two young Japanese tourists, brother and sister Rintaro (Rintaro Sawamoto) and Atsuko (Atsuko Okatsuka), get stranded when their car breaks down in the California backwater of the title.

By: PETER KEOUGH | April 27, 2011

Review: Heaven + Earth + Joe Davis

Cambridge’s own eccentric trash-spelunker
Joe Davis is the type of character who begs to be profiled.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | April 28, 2011

Review: Better This World

Our government opposes social justice
Young activists sometimes do stupid things.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | April 28, 2011

Review: African Cats

Rampant anthropomorphizing
To their credit, directors Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey don't cut away from a downed gazelle or a hippo mid evisceration.

By: ALICIA POTTER | April 25, 2011

Review: Scream 4

Self-aware to the brink of absurdity
This movie is going to have more than its fair share of detractors. I'm not one of them.

By: ALEXANDRA CAVALLO | April 19, 2011

Review: Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold

Morgan Spurlock's new "docbuster"
Morgan Spurlock ( Super Size Me ) is at it again.

By: BRETT MICHEL | April 19, 2011

Review: Henry's Crime

False conviction
If you had to compare it to a Russian classic, Malcolm Venville's mild comedy about a nobody (Keanu Reeves) who gets busted for a crime he didn't commit might suggest half-baked Dostoevsky or lightweight Gogol.

By: PETER KEOUGH | April 19, 2011

Review: Circo

Gran Circo Mexico
Out there on the dusty back roads of rural Mexico, that's where American documentarian Aaron Schock went to find a bona fide old-time circus, with a roaring lion and tigers and tightrope walkers under an actual big top.

By: GERALD PEARY | April 19, 2011

Review: In a Better World

In a better movie
Black-and-white issues get grayer in the 2010 Best Foreign Language Oscar winner, Susanne Bier’s In a Better World.

By: PETER KEOUGH | April 14, 2011

Review: The Conspirator

Redford doesn't do justice to his theme
Robert Redford's The Conspirator draws parallels between the extra-constitutional methods applied then to protect the country from possible terrorism and those employed in today's War against Terror.

By: PETER KEOUGH | April 14, 2011

Review: Nine Nation Animation

Eclectic but masterful
The animated short is one of the most misunderstood genres in film.

By: MICHAEL C. WALSH | April 13, 2011

Review: Atlas Shrugged

Not all books should be made into movies
Actor Paul Johansson, in his directorial debut, sets his adaptation of Ayn Rand's 1957 novel — now a Libertarian sacred text — in a near-future (2016) plagued by socialism.

By: TOM MEEK | April 12, 2011

Review: Le Quattro Volte

Pythagoras, beyond the theorem
There's more to Pythagoras than his theorem concerning right triangles.

By: GERALD PEARY | April 13, 2011

Review: Rio

A vibrant visual feast
Love drives this animated 3D flight of fancy from Carlos Saldanha, director of the Ice Age series and a native of the title city.

By: TOM MEEK | April 12, 2011

Review: Your Highness

Clever spoof of sword ’n’ sorcery clichés
The magnificent Danny McBride (HBO's Eastbound and Down ) co-wrote and stars in this clever spoof that reveals the human frailties beneath all those sword 'n' sorcery clichés.

By: BETSY SHERMAN | April 13, 2011

Review: Arthur

Russell Brand bottoms out
Amusement at the wacky high jinks of the wealthy has waned some since Dudley Moore's bibulous antics in the 1981 hit comedy Arthur .

By: PETER KEOUGH | April 12, 2011

Review: Bill Cunningham New York

The legendary “street style” photographer
Richard Press's sweet, heartfelt celebration of the New York Times ' fashion photographer, Bill Cunningham, is already a sensation in the Big Apple, where it has smashed box-office records at the Film Forum.

By: GERALD PEARY | April 07, 2011

Review: Miral

A tale of female empowerment
Julian Schnabel, a painter by trade, comes at his films (all bio-pics) with passion and élan.

By: TOM MEEK | April 07, 2011

Review: My Perestroika

Transitioning to capitalism
Socialism might be a dirty word in America, but for Russians during the Soviet era, it was the way things were.

By: PETER KEOUGH | April 07, 2011

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