Darren Aronofsky’s most personal film in years is a small character study, featuring a ferocious, career-capping performance by Mickey Rourke.
Three old buddies reunite in their hometown during the holidays and the result smells worse than a decade old fruitcake.
Sean Penn gives a moving, masterful performance as slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk.
Matteo Garrone’s unflinching and unglamorous look at the Neopolitan mafia is a disorienting but ultimately intriguing hybrid, with the head of a documentary but the body of a film.
In spite of the great casting, this is one gift that you’ll want to return.
Surprisingly gripping little movie about a drifter in a small Oregon town looking for her lost pooch, features Michelle Williams in a raw nerve of a performance.
Frank Martin is back with his baleful stare, perfect abs, fists of fury and his lightning fast black car. Zoom, zoom.
Low-budget Spanish thriller about a guy that stumbles hours into the past and winds up trying to correct his last few mistakes can’t survive its contrived plot contortions, non-characters, or “well, duh” obviousness.
If you see one vampire movie this season, it shouldn’t be the one you’re probably thinking of. It should be this quietly beautiful, fiendishly gripping Swedish import which is likely to stay with you longer than your average teen romance novel.
Childhood innocence clashes with the harsh realities of life, war, and friendship in this very original, instant classic.
