The Passions

Tilda Swinton, icon of indy cinema, is masterful in Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash.

Pilgrim’s Progress

Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups is lost in its own symbolism.

A Better Self

In Paolo Sorrentino's Youth, the crossroads of despair and integrity.

Blooming, Buzzing Experience

The Wonders subverts the typical female coming-of-age story.

An Honest Woman

Isabel Coixet's Learning to Drive

Park that Lark

Michael Almereyda's Cymbeline

Can She Act?

Olivier Assayas's Clouds of Sils Maria

Human Frailties

Abderrahmane Sissako’s Timbuktu

The Ugly Truth

Even if the facts are wrong, the feelings in Selma are right.

Integrity and Despair

Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman.

The Natural

Richard Linklater's Boyhood

Submitting to Truth

Pawel Pawlikowski's Ida

Are You Jewish?

John Turturro's Fading Gigolo.

The Lost Girls

Catherine Hardwicke’s Thirteen.

Living the Dream

Arnaud Desplechin's Jimmy P.

Loser

Joel and Ethan Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis.

Forgetting the Holocaust

The Book Thief is a Holocaust story far removed from the one told by survivors.

Haven in a Heartless World

Alan Stone reviews Enough Said

Subject of Study

If there is a moral limit to artistic license, director Alice Winocour has gone beyond it in Augustine.

The Greater Gatsby

Fitzgerald's novel is overrated, but the new film version deserves more credit than it has received.

The Price of Vengeance

Settling the Cinematic Torture Debate

A Love Story

Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master. 

Black Like Me

The Allen Files

Midnight in Paris earned Woody Allen his fourth Oscar and was the biggest box office success in his long and productive filmmaking career.

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