Manufactured Landscapes

With the eye of an artist, photographer Edward Burtynsky views the effects of China's industrial incursions into its natural landscape.

"...Manufactured Landscapes' eight-minute opening tracking shot of a hangar-sized factory in China, you may get the sensation you’re in..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

City Zero

"...a Moscow engineer who arrives at a small town factory for a scheduled appointment only to find no one..."

Dec. 6, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kin

Gritty sci-fi road trip has teen appeal

"...who finds a powerful ray gun in an abandoned factory and then goes on the lam with his scoundrel..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Les Misérables

This extravagant adaptation of the monster-hit musical is a little pitchy, but it's still a potent piece of cinema.

"...as Prisoner 24601 under an alias to become a factory owner devoted to God and the well-keep of his..."

Dec. 28, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Potiche

Catherine Deneuve stars in this French comedy set in 1977 about a trophy wife.

"...a rich, sexist adulterer (Luchini), who owns the umbrella factory that was founded by Suzanne’s father and was part..."

April 22, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kinky Boots

One man's ailing boot factory and a transvestite's need for extra-large thigh-highs become a perfect match in this British comedy about tolerance.

"...(including Shaun of the Dead's Nick Frost as a factory-floor cad). Based on a true story, as far as..."

May 19, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

24 Hour Party People

"...and bon vivant who, in the late Seventies, founded Factory Records, and from there forever altered the musical landscape..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mr. Accident

"...Roger Crumpkin, an accident-prone maintenance man at an egg factory, which is secretly infusing all its eggs with nicotine...."

Dec. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dancer in the Dark

Björk goes goes to the death chamber in musical interludes.

"...the mid-1960s, the titular dancer is Selma, a musical-loving factory worker played by pixie-esque Icelandic chanteuse Björk. The conceit..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Marius and Jeannette

"...steals some paint cans from the soon-to-be dismantled cement factory that Marius (Meylan) patrols as a security guard. Jeannette..."

Sept. 4, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Theatre Review: The Filigree Theatre’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Factory on 5th production revels in the morally gray

"...The space at Factory on 5th sets a chilling scene, and that’s not..."

Feb. 14, 2025 Arts Feature by Cat McCarrey

Bootmen

"...understand. Wants the lad to stay on at the factory 'cause the money's steady, innit? Though little does 'e..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Crosstalk: Hi, How Are You Mural Lasts a Long Time Despite Building Demo, and More Music News

Record Store Day and an Ice Cream Factory Studio workshop

"...Sound Project) and Matt Parmenter open the Ice Cream Factory Studio on Tuesday, April 25, for an evening workshop..."

April 21, 2023 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Souvenir

Isabelle Huppert as a musician reconsidering celebrity.

"...Now Liliane works in a pâté factory, applying garnish to loaves at a conveyor belt pace...."

March 16, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Wasted! The Story of Food Waste

Where does the food go?

"...give them the first taste free. The Yoplait Yogurt factory in Murfreesboro, Tenn., captures its waste and converts it..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mia Madre

A filmmaker says goodbye to a mother

"...(Buy) makes socially responsible films; her latest is about factory workers on strike. She has little patience for her..."

Sept. 9, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Huntsman: Winter's War

Modernized fairy tale is a wan follow-up

"...of familiarity that just feels tired, and sad, and factory-engineered. The Huntsman misses epic by a long mile, and..."

April 22, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Mustang

Five Turkish sisters fight the patriarchy in this widely hailed drama

"...As the family turns the house into a "wife factory," intent on marrying off the girls before some tryst..."

Jan. 15, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Trainwreck

Amy Schumer adds an X chromosome to Judd Apatow's usual raunchfest

"...its third season, the show has become a viral-video factory, crowding Facebook feeds with clips that aren’t just funny..."

July 17, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit

In something of a prequel, this is Jack Ryan's origin story – before Tom Clancy got his hooks in him.

"...dumped it on a plate, the ridges of a factory-line production still perfectly hatched on a gelatinous cylinder of..."

Jan. 24, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Safe Haven

Director Lasse Hallström can't find the pulse in this Nicholas Sparks sudser starring Julianne Hough and Josh Duhamel.

"...more than happy to send his bestsellers down the factory line toward multiplexes. Artistry occasionally happens in a Sparks..."

Feb. 15, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow

Director Sophie Fiennes gives us this elegant examination of the highly personal artwork of German painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer.

"...been primarily working to transform an abandoned, 86-acre silk factory into his own private exhibition space/performance piece. With its..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hop

Some films are saccharine, but Hop is pure sugar – processed sugar.

"...Easter Bunny runs a vibrantly pastel, below-ground, Wonka-esque candy factory staffed by fluffy yellow chicks (the avian kind) on..."

April 1, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cool It

Based on the book by Danish environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg, this documentary approaches the problems caused by global warming without panic.

"...with heartfelt cogency. No screaming end-of-days Fox News-styled fear factory this: Lomborg's arguments are decidedly convincing and, in the..."

Nov. 12, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Last Train Home

This small masterpiece of documentary filmmaking offers an intimate look at the impact of China’s industrial growth.

"...see in the corners of Changhua and Suqin’s sewing factory. The shirts on our backs here in the U.S...."

Oct. 29, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All by Myself

Tyler Perry's Madea delivers a couple of young delinquents to their only living relative, a shady nightclub singer who must rise to the occasion.

"...uncharitably, point out that Perry, a veritable one-man movie factory, has previously done bad, all by his bad self,..."

Sept. 18, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Crossing Over

Various characters who are ensnared within the dogged machinery of the American immigration system become the subjects of this multistrand narrative.

"...night after busting a Mexican seamstress in a California factory, whose son will be cast to the streets after..."

March 27, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

New in Town

A strident Renée Zellweger stars in this forgettable fish-out-of-water comedy.

"...arrives in small-town Minnesota to shake up its underproducing factory. It pains me to report that the film –..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Eye

In this Hong Kong horror remake, Jessica Alba stars as a blind violinist whose cure turns out to be worse than the disease.

"...the trademark LASIK laziness of Hollywood's stylistically blank remake factory. It blinks, but you'll never miss it...."

Feb. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams

This first feature from Bosnian director/writer Jasmila Zbanic offers up a slice of life after hell in which a widowed mother and daughter still veer perilously between fear and hope.

"...a mob-run discotheque and days in a cavernous shoe factory. It's a grim life, made marginally less so by..."

May 18, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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