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Nov 4, 2005
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Filmmakers Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt chronicle the three-year struggle of Shelby Knox, a remarkably tenacious high school student, as she attempts to force the Lubbock, Texas, public schools to implement a basic sex-education program.
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Jan 15, 2009
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A melancholic videographer (Leo Fitzpatrick) is unexpectedly summoned by his long-lost childhood friend, now terminally ill, to record a final testament.
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Aug 6, 2004
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Director Amie Siegel blends fiction with various documentary forms in this uneven but intriguing deconstruction of psychoanalysis (2003).
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Mar 27, 2008
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A short Israeli feature purportedly adopting the fragmented narrative approach of Paul Haggis's Oscar-winning Crash, about a series of “multicultural” encounters tied together by a catastrophic auto accident.
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Apr 20, 2007
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If Israel and Palestine ever achieve a lasting peace, it will likely be cemented by the kind of people interviewed in Ronit Avni and Julia Bacha's remarkable 2006 documentary.
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Apr 20, 2007
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If Israel and Palestine ever achieve a lasting peace, it will likely be cemented by the kind of people interviewed in Ronit Avni and Julia Bacha's remarkable 2006 documentary.
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Oct 26, 1985
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Vladimir Menshov (Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears) sets this corny, bittersweet romance in Moscow a few years before the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Apr 21, 2006
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Just when you thought the Tarantino knockoffs had subsided, along comes this Chicago-based tale (2005) about a Bible-quoting hit man (J. Salome Martinez Jr.) and his smart-ass sidekick (Nicolas Guzman), who engage in long bouts of “witty” banter between assignments for a drug kingpin.
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Apr 17, 2008
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Embracing evolutionary theory will turn you into a close-minded, God-denying Nazi—that's the upshot of this ludicrous propaganda piece about the “intelligent design” movement's struggle for academic and scientific respectability.
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Jun 12, 2008
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Newton I. Aduaka directed this fictional chronicle, about the making of a child soldier (the title character, played by Mamoudu Turay Kamara).
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