Never sacrificing one for the other, Gimme The Loot somehow manages to be both raw and sweet at the same time.

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I watch hundreds of movies a year hoping to be sweetly humbled by an unexpected gem such as this.

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The progeny of direct cinema, experimental film and ethnography, Leviathan uses new cameras and an inventive technique to create something bracingly distinctive.

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Provocative, evocative and reflective, Bestiaire is ultimately a film that opens up playgrounds for contemplation and self-contemplation rather than putting forth an author’s point-of-view.

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Aesthetically assured and emotionally true, First Winter is ambitious by means of its limited resources, rather than in spite of them.

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As much as I want to say that I don’t approve of Killer Joe, I can’t do that. This movie is one seriously gonzo romp.

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If in the end The Queen of Versailles uses the Siegel's story, it's to reflect on the malleability of American identity, and about the bitter striving that often breeds success.

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To know that a film like Family Portrait in Black and White will be playing in a Times Square multiplex alongside franchise blockbusters in the dead heat of summer should give us all a tiny breath of hope.

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Beasts of the Southern Wild is spirituality on celluloid.

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(The Invisible War world premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Documentary Audience Award. It is being distributed by Cinedigm and Docurama Films and opens theatrically on Friday, June 22, 2012. Visit the film’s official website […]

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