Review: Welcome to Marwen

Considering the true story on which it is based, Welcome to Marwen should be a compelling work. Yet, for all its technical wizardry, the...

Review: In the Fade (Aus dem Nichts)

On paper, In the Fade (Aus dem Nichts), the latest effort from writer-producer-director Fatih Akin, reads like a Lifetime movie of the...

Review: The Infiltrator

Olympia Dukakis is in but a few scenes in The Infiltrator, but her appearance electrifies this well-made but often disengaging drama. The...

Review: Maryland (aka Disorder)

Vincent, played by Matthias Schoenaerts, sits in his former bedroom, his bulk suffocating the space. The image suggests a man who doesn't...

Review: Sky

Sky begins with a Parisian couple driving through the California desert. She is Romy (Diane Kruger), he is Richard (Gilles Lelouche)....

Review: Fathers and Daughters

Fathers and Daughters is a standard but undeniably affecting melodrama that follows two stories. The first is that of award-winning...

Review: The Better Angels

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother," Abraham Lincoln famously said of his beloved mother Nancy, who died of milk...