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    Colossal Youth: Alexis dos Santos's "Unmade Beds"

    by Jeff Reichert on September 1, 2009

    As long there as there are young people living out their dreams in cities, there will always be young filmmakers eager and willing to follow them around churning out Bohemian anomie portraiture. Kids in urban settings constitute a broad enough arena of exploration that we'll always have the good (P...

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    Basic Formula: Cherien Dabis's "Amreeka"

    by Eric Kohn on August 31, 2009

    EDITOR'S NOTE: This review was originally published as part of indieWIRE's coverage of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. "Amreeka" opens this Friday.

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    No Sense or Sensibility: Lee's "Woodstock" Undercooked

    by Eric Kohn on August 24, 2009

    This review was originally published as part of indieWIRE's coverage of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.

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    An Engaging Portrait of Obsession: Robert Siegel's "Big Fan"

    by Eric Kohn on August 24, 2009

    This review was originally published as part of indieWIRE's coverage of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. "We Live In Public" is being released in theaters this Friday.

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    Portraying Chaos: Ondi Timoner's "We Live In Public"

    by Eric Kohn on August 24, 2009

    This review was originally published as part of indieWIRE's coverage of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. "We Live In Public" is being released in theaters this Friday.

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    Surface Tension: R.J. Cutler's "The September Issue"

    by Jeff Reichert on August 24, 2009

    About five minutes into R.J. Cutler's "The September Issue," an almost-expose of the production of Vogue magazine's annual fall spectacular, electroclash act Ladytron's icy "Destroy Everything You Touch" spikes on the soundtrack. By this point Cutler's already established his hands-off nonfiction f...

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    Family Snapshot: Hirokazu Kore-eda's "Still Walking"

    by Kristi Mitsuda on August 24, 2009

    Hirokazu Kore-eda's films are haunted by the specter of death -- from the exquisite undercurrent of loss infusing "Maborosi"' to the explicitly gimmicky conceptualization of the hereafter in "After Life" to the looming danger hovering over the abandoned children of "Nobody Knows". His latest, "Still...

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    Still Searching for a Home Run: "Holy Land Hardball" Travels with Chutzpah

    by Eric Kohn on August 21, 2009

    Although frequently identified as America's quintessential national pastime, baseball contains an undeniable global component that has become commonplace in movies about the sport. Look no further than this year's sleeper hit "Sugar," a bittersweet story of Dominican players drafted for American tea...

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    After I Forget: Lucrecia Martel's "The Headless Woman"

    by Eric Hynes on August 18, 2009

    You've seen this empty canal before. Some boys and a dog were running around here, across the street and into it, just a few minutes ago. But you're not prepared, five minutes into "The Headless Woman," with a sunny pop song on the car radio, for the protagonist to hit something. Yet you'll spend th...

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    Falling Short of Tarantino's Own High Bar, "Inglourious" Goes Bubblegum

    by Eric Kohn on August 17, 2009

    This review was originally published as part of indieWIRE's coverage of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival

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