Movies & TV

American filmmakers Chris and Tony Sanders (Vicky Krieps, Tim Roth) opted for a work retreat to F?r?, the Swedish isle where Ingmar Bergman resided. As the trip revealed and exacerbated the fissures in their union, she found fodder for her stalled...

Set in L.A.'s South Central 'hood, this explosive drama centers on Kaydee "Caine" Lawson (Tyrin Turner), a troubled youth so deeply involved with his friends in the lifestyle of robbery, drug dealing, and murder that he can't get out. When he finally...

Suspended between carefree youth and the harsh realities of the adult world, a teenage girl experiences an unsettling awakening in this haunting vision of innocence lost. Based on the celebrated short story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by...

With this compassionate, startling comedy that could have come from no other artistic sensibility, the brilliant Miranda July reveals a world both familiar and strange an original vision of creativity, sexuality, childhood, and loneliness through a...

Aging carpenter Daniel Blake (Dave Johns) was dispirited when a heart attack pushed him onto government assistance... and he felt way worse when he was told his benefits were being cut off. As his circular tussles with the welfare bureaucracy develop...

In the mid-sixties, the maverick American director Monte Hellman (TWO-LANE BLACKTOP) conceived of two westerns at the same time. Dreamlike and gritty by turns, the two films would prove their maker's adeptness at brilliantly deconstructing genre. As shot...

Blu-ray. Martha Beck (Shirley Stoler) is sullen, overweight, and lonely. Desperate for affection, she joins Aunt Carrie's Friendship Club and strikes up a correspondence with Ray Fernandez (Tony Lo Bianco), a charismatic smooth talker who could be the...

Among the most important documentaries ever made, The Thin Blue Line, by Errol Morris (Gates of Heaven), erases the border between art and activism. A work of meticulous journalism and gripping drama, it recounts the disturbing tale of Randall Adams, a...

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AUTUMN SONATA was the only collaboration between cinema's two great Bergman's, Ingmar, the iconic director of THE SEVENTH SEAL, and Ingrid, the monumental star of CASABLANCA. The grand dame, playing an icy concert pianist, is matched beat for beat in...

The most personal film by Guillermo del Toro (CRONOS) is also among his most frightening and emotionally layered. Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE tells the tale of a ten-year-old boy who, after his...

Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Liam Cunningham. Beautifully, painfully shot and scripted, this drama follows the 1981 hunger strike by Irish prisoners in Belfast, protesting their mistreatment at the hands of British guards and the British...