The excitement and surprise of seeing many movies at a film festival is that you often forget, as a film unspools, why you thought it was a good idea to...

You gotta be suspicious of a movie that has supposedly been mothballed by its studio for two years, eternally on the release schedule, but repeatedly held at the last minute...

For me, there is a thin line between plot-forwarding violence, and violence for violence's sake. Ab-Normal Beauty treads that thin line, and several times crossed it for me. But as...

Wong Kar-Wai's 2046 was easily my most anticipated film at the Seattle International Film Festival. I had been waiting for this film for years (WKW is notably slow in churning...

OK, everyone! Raise your hand if you are interested in seeing 9 Songs because of the musical performances of such hot bands as Franz Ferdinand, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and...

Now, here is a great idea trapped in an pretty-good movie. Surviving Eden is a deadpan faux-documentary in the sprit of the popular ensemble comedies Best in Show and A...

Living Life, on the surface, is about the quality of an after-school special. It is well-meaning, rather blandly acted, and has a moral at the end. What is most interesting...

In the spirit of Jim Jarmusch's early work (especially the slacker-fest Stranger Than Paradise), Fernando Eimbcke's Duck Season is a minimalist black-and-white slice-of-life gem about a handful of unremarkable people...

Here is a mockumentary that is done so well, and so completely straight-faced, that it could play on a Sunday afternoon on PBS and no one would notice... except for...

"Competitive eating" is a very strange sport, and is wholly a byproduct of a culture that celebrates excess. I can only imagine the puzzled looks of people from Third World...