Would really really would like for you to feel the grand, sweeping, larger-than-life mythos, and borrows willy-nilly from Peter Jackson and Guillermo Del Toro to try to do so. Read more>>

It’s intended to be delightful, but it feels as long as a pregnancy itself, this roundrobin of forcefully interconnected tales of incipient parenthood. Read more>>

I kept hoping to get caught up in this untold story of the French Resistance in more than a coolly intellectual way, but that never happened. Read more>>

A time travel plot can feel like a huge narrative swindle if not handled correctly. But there’s no big do-over button hovering over this tale. Nope: the timey-wimey stuff here is clever, funny, thrilling, even poignant. Read more>>

If there’s one thing I learned from Julie Delpy’s wonderfully eccentric dramedy, it’s that Parisians are as neurotic as New Yorkers. Who knew? Read more>>

I’m struggling to find reasons to do more than merely coolly appreciate, from an emotional distance, the disagreeably detached dissection of young girls’ sexuality on offer… Read more>>

It’s a movie, not the latest first-person shooter, but it might as well be. Read more>>

UNRAVELED tracks the Marc Drier fraud case and chronicles period during which Drier, under house arrest with 24/7 armed guards watching him in his more than 10-million dollar penthouse on New York City’s Upper East Side, awaits the court appearance at which he will be sentenced for his crimes. Fascinating. Read more>>

A stunning failure, certainly compared to Borat and Bruno. Sacha Baron Cohen is clearly aware of whom the targets of his satiric ire should be, but he couldn’t figure out how to make it work. Read more>>

Almost shocking in how it depicts 15-year-old Alma’s all-consuming confusion, anxiety, and sexual desperation: with the same candid carnality of the horny-boy subgenre… Read more>>