Embraceable Pedro
Almodovar's Broken Embraces honors its influences, and satisfies in its own right.
Concerning the International Language of Rom-Com Cliché
South Korean festival fave My Dear Enemy is a variation on a tired theme.
They're Coming? We're Coming?
In retro sci-fi animation Planet 51, an American astronaut invades a planet that looks a lot like 50s America.
Nicolas Cage Is Having Too Much Fun
In Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Werner Herzog indulges our nuttiest movie star's every scenery-chewing whim.
Size Does Matter
Red Cliff, John Woo's epic return to the Chinese film industry, is undercut by its own gigantism.
Is Anti-Semitism Good for the Jews?
Yoav Shamir's documentary Defamation examines the uses of prejudice.
A Colossal Work of Staggering Blandness
Mammoth is Lukas Moodysson's profoundly impersonal everything-is-connected zeitgeist-grab.
Twilight of the Gods
With The Sun, Alexander Sokurov looks East, to Hirohito's surrender.
Permanent Vacation
Jacques Tati's classic comedy M. Hulot's Holiday is literally timeless.
Roland Emmerich Is the Ayn Rand of the Disaster Movie
In his LOLpocalypse 2012, all our political symbols are destroyed (again!), and only the most worthy survive.
It's Better Not to Know
In Uncertainty, a young NYC couple might be living in one of two movies, neither of which are particularly good.
