Movie Reviews

Slate's "Movie Club": Schwarzbaum, Catsoulis, Stevens, Winter, Zacharek

Crap Artist: Robert Celestino's "Yonkers Joe"

From the start, "Yonkers Joe" pitches the spectator directly into a world of tough-talking gamblers and sharks, where the dice are loaded, hands move quickly, and there's always a scam in the offing. This milieu of casinos and parking lots, peopled with hustlers and hookers, is a familiar film setti...

Magic Hour: Carlos Reygadas's "Silent Light"

[An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot.]

The Bad German: Vicente Amorim's "Good"

[An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot.]

Reverse Shot's Best of 2008: "Flight of the Red Balloon" and 9 more

An acclaimed Taiwanese filmmaker working in France; a young Mexican director reimagining a canonical Danish film in an obscure Mennonite community in his home country; a West Coast-based American, enamored of the somber rhythms of the blasted Mississippi delta, miraculously captures them in the kind...

Dead Souls: "Alexey Balabanov's 'Cargo 200'"

[An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot.]

Expiration Date: Joel Hopkins's "Last Chance Harvey"

[An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot.]

Unforgettable: Ari Folman's "Waltz with Bashir"

[An indieWIRE review from Reverse Shot.]

A Corner in Couscous: Abdellatif Kechiche's "The Secret of the Grain"

There's no "secret" -- of cooking, of love, of financial success -- in Abdellatif Kechiche's "The Secret of the Grain," though there is indeed plenty of grain. Though it's also played under the simpler name of "Couscous," the film is actually called "The Grain and the Mullet" in French -- the latter...