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Jun 24, 2005
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Peter Lorre stars in Fritz Lang's sympathetic and terrifying story of a child murderer, filmed in Germany in 1931.
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Oct 26, 1985
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Peter Lorre stars in Fritz Lang's sympathetic and terrifying story of a child murderer, made in Germany in 1931.
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Oct 31, 2013
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A few years back, Tina Fey delivered one of the all-time great zingers when she reported on Saturday Night Live that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez might star in a remake of Casablanca and predicted the new release would be "the perfect film for people who liked the original but wished it was terrible."
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Jan 11, 2007
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I haven't seen David Henry Hwang's much-praised play, based on an implausible-but-true story, but it's easy to see how the audience's imaginative participation in the central premise could make it work.
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Oct 26, 1985
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The late John Holmes stars in this X-rated 3-D and 'Scope porn film directed by one “Norm Deplume,” with Hal Walker, Brenda Ram, and Heather Grant.
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Jan 10, 2017
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Celia Rowlson-Hall directed and stars in this reimagined story of the Virgin Mary, following a woman through her journey of self-exploration across the American Southwest.
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May 30, 2019
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Octavia Spencer stars in this horror film about a lonely woman befriended by a group of teens, whom she lets party at her house, but who grows increasingly obsessed with them.
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May 3, 2018
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Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride, reprising their roles from Universal's comedy hit The Egg and I (1947), are a homespun, dirt-poor hillbilly couple who win a modern "dream home" in a contest.
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Oct 15, 2004
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You'd think a movie with this much copulating would be erotic, but writer-director Christophe Honore's graphic adaptation of Georges Bataille's novel is so clinically detached it borders on absurd.
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Dec 18, 2020
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The film adaptation of the August Wilson play Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom shows how Black folks navigate the power struggles that white structures create.
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Dec 2, 2005
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The winsome male lead of this romantic comedy, Vincent Elbaz, is a safety examiner for a French airline who tests pilots in a giant cockpit simulator but is himself afraid to fly.
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Apr 12, 2016
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A young boy, who would prefer to wear dresses and play with dolls, and his compassionate but exasperated family attempt to fit into their new neighborhood.
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Oct 26, 1985
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Trevor Graham's 1997 documentary follows the battle of Eddie Mabo to reclaim the Murray Islands, in the Torres Strait north of Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, for the islanders.
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Oct 26, 1985
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This sensitive and at times beautiful 1995 feature by Japanese documentary filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda focuses mainly on the second marriage and new life of a young mother whose first husband inexplicably committed suicide.
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- by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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Tags: Drama
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Oct 23, 2008
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An Israeli child tries to deal with school bullies, estranged parents, and an autistic teenage brother in this feature by Guy Nattiv.
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