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John Sayles’ new drama is about life in a destitute African-American cotton-farming town in Jim Crow-era Alabama and the music that gave the region its mythology.

Billed as the “Gypsy Caravan,” five bands travel across America making music from across the Romani diaspora.

Who would have ever guessed that Chris Rock would be the guy to film an American remake of Eric Rohmer's meditation on fidelity, Chloe in the Afternoon?

An Italian couple’s decision to adopt a Russian boy creates a troubling situation for young Vanya, who doesn't want to leave the country without meeting his birth mother.

The director of Fight Club and Se7en switches gears here from psychological thrillers to something that more closely resembles a police procedural.

Matt Damon abandons the cat-and-mouse theatrics of his Bourne identity to play the reserved fictional functionary whose life serves as the prism through which this film examines the early years of the CIA.

Guadalupe is amateur hour dressed up in ecclesiastical purple: a poorly drawn, poorly directed, and poorly acted attempt to film something of weight and religious significance.

Dear George Lucas … It's bad enough that you've cloaked your true identity behind that of the 15-year-old bestselling novelist Christopher Paolini, but did you have to remake Episode IV all over again? With friggin' dragons?!

A hard-boiled detective investigates a murder at a Buddhist monastery.

This rocketing thriller that pits an unseen Filipino terrorist against an unwitting Filipino-American dupe is one of the purest examples of no-budget, seat-of-the-pants, gloriously DIY filmmaking since The Blair Witch Project.

This fun but ultimately disappointing mistaken-identity thriller has style galore, which may actually be the crux of its problem.

Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night gets a teen-movie rehash in this manic panic of a mess that never rises to even the lowest levels of the Bard’s cross-dressing comedy of errors.

Love and sensation: It's all the same thing to a young gay Swiss man who leads a dangerous life.

An exotic dancer tests the strength of two couples in this entertaining Bollywood romantic comedy.

This psychological drama from Denmark is interesting and well-performed, but it's no Cain and Abel.

Crude comedy of sexual errors falls flat.

Visually stunning sequel to the cult 1995 anime.

Hilary Duff's Cinderella tale goes splat like a pumpkin.

Even superheroes have to do their own laundry in Sam Raimi's truly spectacular vision that combines human pathos and breathtaking action.

Jonathan Demme's riveting documentary about slain Haitian populist and radio personality Jean Dominique.

All-singing, all-dancing fairy tale is all-but-unbearable.

Angelina Jolie and Ethan Hawke star in this disappointing thriller.

Love is never having to say "I erased you."

Bona fide "art" movie starring this season's It Girl, Scarlett Johansson, is as flat and enigmatic as the titular portrait by Vermeer.

Claude Lelouch’s new movie starring Jeremy Irons is a cat-burgler story set in sunny, faraway locales.

Ozon’s film is like Eric Rohmer meets Brian DePalma – questions of identity and perception come to the fore, but slowly.