Film Search
- Oct 11, 2012
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Waiting for a Miracle
An unhappily married couple make a pilgrimage to the holy city of Mashhad with their young daughter, who has mysteriously stopped walking and talking, but the trip only reinforces the mother and father's dislike for each other. more...
- Oct 18, 2012
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War of the Buttons (PG-13)
This is the fifth screen version of Louis Pergaud's 1912 novel, about a children's game that gets out of hand, and as far as I can tell it's the first to transplant his story to the French occupation. more...
- Feb 4, 2010
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Ward No. 6 (NR)
Chekhov's short story about a depressive doctor who winds up joining his own mental patients gets an offbeat millennial update from veteran Russian director Karen Shakhnazarov (Vanished Empire, The Rider Named Death). more...
- Jun 24, 2010
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Wasteland Utopias (NR)
As flaky as a croissant, and nearly as enjoyable, this meandering experimental doc draws myriad discursive connections between the lives and legacies of two forgotten figures from the Cold War era: real-estate mogul Del Webb, whose Sun City development in Arizona initiated the unsustainable urbanization of the Sonoran desert, and Wilhelm Reich, the ex-Freudian heretic who preached sexual freedom and imagined he could reclaim the Sonoran for mankind by bombarding the sky with invisible life-force quanta he called “orgone radiation.” I have no idea whether director David Sherman really believes in Roswell UFOs and an Eisenhower-era “Weather Control Act,” but he sure knows how to have fun messing around with stock footage, old newsreels, lo-fi video reconstructions, and crank ideologies. more...
- Feb 25, 2010
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The Wedding Song
During the Nazi occupation of Tunisia, two young women find their friendship stretched to its limits by the desires of men and the demands of war, which can be hard to differentiate. more...
- Jun 14, 2012
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Welcome to Pine Hill
In writer-director-editor Keith Miller’s relaxed debut feature, a quiet former drug dealer takes stock of his life when he’s diagnosed with a rare terminal illness. more...
- Oct 7, 2010
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The White Meadows (NR)
Shot on the salt-covered islands of Iran's Lake Urmia, Mohammad Rasoulof's third feature (2009) follows a gruff loner in a rowboat and his stowaway as they travel from village to village, assisting the locals with obscure and sometimes brutal ceremonies that range from collecting tears in a glass flagon to pouring monkey urine into the eyes of a man won't admit that the lake's water is blue. more...
- Jul 13, 2012
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White Scripts and Black Supermen
This documentary about black comic-book superheroes zips past the sidekicks of the 40s and 50s—like Lothar, who served as muscle for Mandrake the Magician, and Whitewash Jones, who provided comic relief for the Young Allies—and never gets into the more credible superheroes that came along in the 80s and 90s, as black artists got into the game. more...
- Oct 12, 2009
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Who's Afraid of the Wolf?
This clever, inventive Czech film by writer-director Maria Prochazkova centers on a six-year-old girl (Dorota Dedkova) who’s transfixed by the Little Red Riding Hood story, which her mother dutifully recounts every night before bedtime. more...
- Aug 16, 2012
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Why Stop Now
Jesse Eisenberg, Melissa Leo, and Tracy Morgan make an unlikely but entertaining trio in this frantic shaggy-dog story, though the comedy is often undercut by the sense that they're working their asses off to put the story across. more...
- Sep 10, 2009
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The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia
More wild than wonderful, the Whites are a sprawling, brawling clan of self-described rednecks whose status as “Appalachian royalty” derives from their violence, their low-level criminality, their abuse of prescription drugs, and the fact that their late patriarch, D. Ray, originated a hillbilly variant of tap dancing. more...
- Jun 15, 2010
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The Wild Hunt (NR)
The phenomenon of live-action medieval role-playing games has already generated two documentaries—Darkon (2006) and Monster Camp (2007)—which definitely blunts the sword-edge of this Canadian drama. more...
- Oct 10, 2009
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Will Not Stop There
A former Croatian sniper (Ivan Herceg) enlists a weedy, middle-aged porn stud (Predrag Vusovic) to help him track down one of the latter’s Serbian female costars (Nada Sargin). more...
- Oct 8, 2009
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Wind Blows in the Meadow
Bedridden after an accident, a woodcutter in a mountain village of northern Iran hopes to retire his debts by promising the hand of his beautiful daughter (Elnaz Shakerdoust) to a rich man’s son who has Down syndrome. more...
- Jul 5, 2012
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The Wolberg Family
An overbearing patriarch tests the will of his family in this 2009 drama from France. more...
