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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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    Naughty Intentions: Bobcat Goldthwait's "World's Greatest Dad"

    by Eric Kohn on August 17, 2009

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

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    DIY Spirit Alive and Well in "Zombie Girl: The Movie"

    by Eric Kohn on August 14, 2009

    The movie brat spirit is alive and well, judging by the determination of Emily Hagins, the twelve-year-old subject of "Zombie Girl: The Movie." With the help of family, friends and a surprisingly generous grant, Hagins managed to complete a feature-length undead saga at a time when most kids are gra...

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    The Way of All Flesh: Gyorgy Palfi's "Taxidermia"

    by Eric Hynes on August 12, 2009

    A three-course ordeal of icky sex, Olympian gluttony, and autoerotic dismemberment, Gyorgy Palfi's "Taxidermia" is consistently vile. Yet it's also a sustained, unique work of art, and well worth the mess. A triptych, the first two sections of which are based on stories by Hungarian writer Lajos Par...

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    The Valley of Indecision: Andrew Bujalski's "Beeswax"

    by Michael Koresky on August 8, 2009

    Over-under-articulators might be the best way to describe the characters in the films of Andrew Bujalski. This of course is also a fairly apt encapsulation of the performance approach in many of the entries in the dare-not-speak-its-name American indie movement that Bujalski unwittingly jumpstarted ...

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    Sci-fi, Futurism and Alternate Reality: "Second Skin" Scores Between Hobby and Addiction

    by Eric Kohn on August 6, 2009

    Juan Carlos Pineiro's "Second Skin" borrows from several contemporary movie traditions. As a portrait of hardcore online gamers, it has elements of sci-fi and futurism in its vision of an entire society based in the digital realm. But people devoted to staying up all night on a "World of Warcraft" b...

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    Life, The Movie: Bill and Turner Ross' "45365"

    by Eric Kohn on July 31, 2009

    Cinema vérité writ large and literal, "45365" offers a supremely detailed look at daily routines in small town America. Focusing on a huge ensemble of characters residing in Sidney, Ohio — the movie's the titular zipcode — sibling filmmakers Turner and Bill Ross capture the minutiae of a self-contai...

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