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Sidney Lumet returns to his special stomping ground—the workings of the New York Police Department and justice system, and how they're affected by racial antagonisms and ethnic loyalties—in a richly detailed, caustic thriller, adapted by Lumet himself from a novel by Hispanic judge Edwin Torres. more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum
• Tags: Crime drama

Q* Film Festival

A competitive screening of student works on “queer” and LGBT themes. more...

Q Planes

A frenetic 1939 spy spoof starring two of Britain's greatest actors, Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier. more...

• by Joshua Katzman

Q

A Ray Harryhausen-ish remake of The Giant Claw from exploitation maestro Larry Cohen (God Told Me To), about a winged serpent of Aztec legend that terrorizes New York and encamps at the top of the Chrysler Building. more...

• by Pat Graham

Qaysar

Mas'ud Kimiai's highly influential and reportedly neorealistic 1996 Iranian feature was supposedly seen by almost half the population of Tehran upon its release. more...

QB VII

Leon Uris's novel about a Jewish doctor mistakenly implicated in Nazi war crimes was produced as a miniseries in 1974, with Anthony Hopkins in the lead role. more...

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Quadrophenia (R)

Franc Roddam's 1979 film of the Who's rock opera aligns sociological observation and romantic fantasy to create an extravagant, involving teenpic with a responsible intellectual grounding. more...

• by Dave Kehr
• Tags: Musical

Quai des Orfevres (NR)

The skillful writer-director Henri-Georges Clouzot is mainly known for his corrosive misanthropy. more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum
• Tags: Crime drama

Quality of Life

A 2004 independent feature about two graffiti artists living in San Francisco's Mission District. more...

Quality of Life

A middling program of aggressively self-indulgent videos that focus on the sleazy side of life. more...

• by Ted Shen

Quantum of Solace (PG-13)

A few years back, the easy sexism and narcissism of the James Bond series looked dated to the point of obsolescence, but Quantum of Solace proves that a revenge motive is just what's needed to rejuvenate all the Bond cliches. more...

• by Noah Berlatsky
• Tags: Action/Adventure, Drama, Suspense/Thriller

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• by Noah Berlatsky

Quarantine

Jennifer Carpenter used to get typecast as a preppie, but after hurling herself about as the title character in The Exorcism of Emily Rose, she's graduated to a more remunerative gig as a horror scream queen. more...

• by J.R. Jones

The Quarry

Somewhere in South Africa, fate tempts a man already wanted for an unspecified crime (John Lynch) to kill a minister on the way to a new post in an isolated town. more...

• by Lisa Alspector

Quartet

Another stuff-and-mount job by James Ivory (The Europeans), this time performed on Jean Rhys's 1928 novel of sexual aggression in Parisian society. more...

• by Dave Kehr