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Inventive and lively caper film is as low-key in its technical execution as a sidewalk shell game but fueled by a frisky energy and a blithely circuitous storyline.
9 Songs (2004, 71 min., NR)
Michael Winterbottom creates scenester porn in which he records the evolution of a man and a woman's relationship through sex and music – exclusively.
The Nines (2007, 99 min., R)
Ryan Reynolds, Melissa McCarthy, and Hope Davis star in three discrete but thematically linked short films in this feature-film-directing debut from screenwriter John August.
1985 (2018, 85 min., NR)
Stunning AIDS drama looks beyond the disease and into grief
1945 (2018, 91 min., NR)
Hungary's Holocaust culpability unearthed in one small village.
1900 (1976, 311 min., R)
By virtue of its very size (5 hours and 11 minutes), there is the temptation to call this restored version of 1900 (originally released in 1977 in truncated form) an epic. It is not and the ...
Unlike such previous animation festivals as the International Tournee of Animation and the Outrageous Animation Festival, this new 'toon showcase seems to barrel along at a powerful pace, never leaving you looking at your watch as ...
This snarling, loudly exultant record of the 1991 European tour by Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Dinosaur Jr., and other bands, bursts with lunatic concert footage, inspired backstage antics, baffling contract riders, and self-deprecating humor from the groups.
1917 (2020, 119 min., R)
World War I drama shows heroism in saving, not taking, lives
Faith-based film taken from bestseller is directed by Michael Polish
This timely documentary is a witness to the events in Prince William County, Va., whose board of supervisors voted in 2007 to require police officers to question anyone suspected of being an undocumented immigrant.
99 Homes (2015, 112 min., R)
Orlando real-estate drama is a microcosm of the U.S. financial crisis
No amount of fighting sticks and throwing stars can elevate this silly tale or its Korean pop-lite star Rain.
The devil, apparently, isn't in the details after all. That's the hard lesson viewers will take away from this deadly -- one might even say infernally -- dull ordeal of glacial plot accumulation, insultingly dumbed-down dialogue, ...
Set in Dallas' boho arts community of Deep Ellum, Ninth Life is a stylish and contemporary murder mystery. Sam (Posey) is a painter who returns to Dallas for a show of his recent paintings. While there ...
Nixon (1995, 190 min., R)
If Robert McNamara’s recently published apologia for the war in Vietnam struck you as well-reasoned and compassionate, then you’re likely to find yourself also in the mood for Oliver Stone’s new bio-pic Nixon. Overall, the movie ...
No (2013, 110 min., R)
Gael García Bernal stars in this lo-fi drama about the role advertising played in the ouster of the Chilean despot, General Pinochet.
No Bears (2022, 106 min., NR)
The acclaimed Iranian filmmaker plays himself in feminist meta-cinema endeavor
The Coen brothers display magnificent form with this Cormac McCarthy tale about intransigent evil in the modern West.
If you're growing as weary of Iraq war documentaries as you are of the war itself, then this sobering, information-filled study of the war's origins is the film for you.
No Entry (2005, 180 min., NR)
An exotic dancer tests the strength of two couples in this entertaining Bollywood romantic comedy.
No Escape (2015, 103 min., R)
Owen Wilson heads an American family swept up in a Southeast Asian coup
In the year 2022, all films will be a fusion of Papillon and The Road Warrior. No, wait. Sorry, wrong notes. In the year 2022, life-sentence prisoners are relegated to a remote island prison, Absalom, where ...
Idris Elba plays a home invader hell-bent on terrorizing Taraji P. Henson’s suburban mom.
Refreshing sex comedy lets Jennifer Lawrence show her raunchy side
Colin Beavan, aka No Impact Man, and his cooperative family are the subjects of this documentary about their yearlong project in environmental sustainability.
Surely there's more to life than choosing Mr. Right; that is… unless you happen to be a woman stuck in an Edward Burns movie. Actually, the men in No Looking Back have pretty limited interests and ...
Elijah Wood dissects the mind of Ted Bundy
This bleak antiwar comedy won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film of 2001.
A thief becomes a substitute teacher to get his loot