Independent filmmaker Susan Seidelman’s sentiment is in the right place, even though she never gets into the groove with this schmaltzy tale about disabled dancers. Read more

Larry Weinstein’s heartbreaking documentary follows Fumiko Ishioka, a curator at the Tokyo Holocaust Resource Center, as she seeks to discover the story of the owner of a battered suitcase — a holocaust relic — that had been sent from Auschwitz to Tokyo to be put on display at the museum. Read more>>.

Slyly laced with weird, supernatural humor, Tim Burton brings back the cult classic series with deliciously demonic Johnny Depp as gothic vampire Barnabas Collins. Read more

Hoorah for Tim Burton and the new nadir of narcissistic awfulness he achieves here. Dark Shadows dares to be nothing but the wisp of its own conceit. Read more>>

Using Margaret Atwood’s fascinating treatise entitled “Payback: Debt And The Shadow Side of Wealth” as a point of departure, acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal engages a compelling cast of renown commentators to expound on the notion of debt and its wide range of implications about human civilization and its future. Read more>>

While you can never tire of Judy Dench, this raj-raj throwback is tiresome. Read more>>

Culture shock lies in store for seven, cash-strapped senior Brits who board a plane from London to Jaipur, ready to embark on the third act of their lives. Read more

Zombies and social satire were made for each other — this has been true since the advent of the modern zombie flick in the 1970s. But zombies and political satire? Read more>>

Thirteen years later, the American Pie guys remain as fixedly bland as ever, so their latest (and let us hope final) cinematic outing can hope to be in the least bit “appealing” only by trotting out the same tedious sitcom blend of crude vulgarity and sappy sentiment. Read more>>

Preoccupied with juggling waitressing/cleaning jobs, an avalanche of bills, the attentions of busboy Mission (Eugenio Derbez) and an illicit affair with a married gynecologist, Dr. Harford (Matthew Modine), self-absorbed Seattle single mom Grace (Eva Mendes) doesn’t seem to have much time to devote to her precocious tween daughter, Ansiedad (Cierra Ramirez). Read more