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Review: Klown

A Danish import from Mikkel Nørgaard
You might think you know what you're in for from the Odd Couple -like music of the opening titles of this Danish import from Mikkel Nørgaard — a movie version of his sitcom Klovn — until an animated sperm cell penetrates his director credit.

By: BRETT MICHEL | August 01, 2012

Review: The Watch

A lapse in good taste
The Watch is hard to watch.

By: PETER KEOUGH | August 01, 2012

Review: The Well-Digger’s Daughter

Based on the novel by Marcel Pagnol
Daniel Auteuil ( Manon of the Spring ) directs and stars in this melodrama set in Provence during World War I.

By: PEG ALOI | July 24, 2012

Review: Step Up Revolution

Abstractly beautiful
The ne plus ultra of “guilty pleasures,” the Step Up movies are willfully naive, awkward, and irresistible.

By: PATRICK Z. MCGAVIN | July 26, 2012

Review: The Queen of Versailles

You couldn’t invent a better metaphor for America’s economic injustice and insanity.

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 27, 2012

Review: Sacrifice

Historical melodrama
Adapted from a 13th-century stage play, this historical melodrama seems torn between trying to be a theatrical fable and a flashy action film.

By: JAKE MULLIGAN | July 24, 2012

Review: Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

Takashi Miike brings back samurai movies
Takashi Miike seems to be single-handedly bringing the samurai movie back to its former glory; first with 13 Assassins , and now this gripping remake of Kobayashi’s classic attack on the honor code within the samurai class.

By: MILES BOWE | July 24, 2012

Review: Farewell, My Queen

Adapted from Chantal Thomas’s novel
The gifted French director Benoît Jacquot specializes in movies about the emotions of young women.

By: PATRICK Z. MCGAVIN | July 24, 2012

Review: The Dark Knight Rises

Not so serious
No other superhero has less fun than the Batman (Christian Bale) of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy.

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 18, 2012

Review: Unforgivable

Voyeurism and narcissism
Lucky for André Téchiné that he's so slick with exposition.

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 17, 2012

Review: The Day He Arrives

Variations
"Stop copying me!" says Seong-jun (Yu Jun-sang), the has-been filmmaker at the center of the 12th cinematic Mobius strip from Hong Sang-soo.

By: BRETT MICHEL | July 17, 2012

Review: Trishna

Tess of the D'Urbervilles set in present-day India
If nothing else, Michael Winterbottom's updating of Tess of the D'Urbervilles to present-day India proves that Thomas Hardy will depress you no matter what the setting.

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 17, 2012

Review: Ballplayer: Pelotero

Striking out
Ballplayer initially declares that it is about dreams, ambition, and family struggles, but by focusing almost entirely on money and market values, it strikes out.

By: MILES BOWE | July 10, 2012

Review: Ice Age: Continental Drift

It's all been done
Perhaps you've seen "Scrat's Continental Crack-Up," the animated short that debuted theatrically a year and a half ago featuring the sabre-toothed squirrel causing a prehistoric tectonic cataclysm as a result of his pursuit of an elusive acorn.

By: BRETT MICHEL | July 12, 2012