The word “family” means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. For most it revolves around those biological relatives [...]

The films of British writer-director Mike Leigh fall most firmly into the subgenre known as “kitchen sink realism.” Pioneered by such noted British [...]

Seems like everybody and his brother is pumping out CGI-animated kids’ movies these days. They hit theaters on a near-weekly basis and run [...]

Leave it to Chinese kitchen sink realist Jia Zhangke to drain every ounce of exoticism from the gangster film genre with his most [...]

A group of Islamic militants from Pakistan, wide-eyed young men, sneak into Mumbai by boat. They listen, via cellphone, to the voice of [...]

[photo]The titular Gloria Bell (played by the always welcome Julianne Moore) is a woman “of a certain age” who appears to be coasting [...]

Art comes to life, in more ways than one, in Hungarian director Milorad Krstic’s madly inspired animated caper Ruben Brandt, Collector. That the [...]

A half-clothed woman wanders, wounded, through a blinding landscape of snow. The camera follows her, tracking her stumbling progress from directly overhead. Wailing [...]

In prewar Germany, a 6-year-old boy and his beloved aunt visit a Nazi-sponsored exhibit of “degenerate art”—that is to say, art. Showing off [...]

Fantasy is often used to address real-world concerns. And animation has long been employed by the film industry to candy-coat difficult life lessons [...]