Inspired by Peter Landesman’s NY Times article, “The Girls Next Door,” “Trade” exposes traffickers who lure young, naïve girls to Mexico for supposedly legit jobs, only to drug and smuggle them into the US, where they are crammed into basement brothels and kept as sex slaves. Read more

Based on Peter Landesman’s acclaimed New York Times Magazine article “The Girls Next Door,” an expose of the lucrative business of sex trafficking, Marco Kreuzpaintner and Jose Rivera’s thriller is awash in exploitation-movie cliches that betray its apparent seriousness of purpose. Read more

In “Lust, Caution,” director Ang Lee returns to the Chinese language and his Chinese heritage to explore a time in history experienced by his parents’ generation. Read more

Lee’s reserve dampens the passion in Lust, Caution, his beautifully mounted but rather unmoving film. It feels surprisingly cold, despite this erotic thriller’s ultra-explicit sex scenes. Read more

Daring, innovative director Ang Lee follows his controversial “Brokeback Mountain” and breathtaking “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” with this erotic Chinese historical drama, rated NC-17 for “explicit sexuality.” Read more

In The Darjeeling Limited, the journey toward enlightenment (or at least a degree or two of heightened self-knowledge) is the most overt of all Wes Anderson’s films. Read more

Writer-director Wes Anderson’s tale of three pampered, estranged brothers on a quirky journey of spiritual discovery relocates his usual preoccupations to the shabbily ornate confines of a trans-India train. Read more

With his fifth feature film, Anderson boards another train of ironic whimsy, although this time the train is quite literal and not just the train of thought in his head. Read more

Brothers and other strangers ride The Darjeeling Limited, Wes Anderson’s captivating road movie that views life as a Great Train of Being. Read more

The luggage! The luggage! It’s all about the baggage. Read more