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    REVIEW | Californication: Jake Kasdan's "The TV Set"

    by Michael Koresky on April 2, 2007

    The inevitability of artistic compromise in the face of bottom-line chasing execs isn't exactly unmined satiric territory, but that doesn't stop Jake Kasdan from throwing himself whole-hog into another retread of "The Player," albeit one that benefits from its appropriately TV-style small scale. Kas...

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    REVIEW | Bright Young Thing: Amnon Buchbinder's "Whole New Thing"

    by Michael Koresky on April 2, 2007

    After being cooped up at home and schooled by his progressive, eco-friendly parents, confused adolescent Emerson Thorsen (Aaron Webber) starts school at age thirteen, eventually developing an enriching but finally unhealthy crush on his sad-sack English teacher, Mr. Grant (co-screenwriter Daniel Mac...

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    REVIEW | Homecoming: Charles Burnett's "Killer of Sheep"

    by Chris Wisniewski on March 29, 2007

    Over the past three decades, Charles Burnett's "Killer of Sheep" has become the stuff of cinephile legend. Shot on location in Watts, Los Angeles, mostly with amateur actors, Burnett's 16mm student-film never received a theatrical release, in part because of the substantial cost involved with cleari...

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    REVIEW | Soft Soap: Susanne Bier's "After the Wedding"

    by Kristi Mitsuda on March 29, 2007

    Moving from its slow, somber, Sigur Ros-soundtracked opening scenes of an orphanage in India to the frenetic bustle of an office space in Denmark, "After the Wedding" initially makes us feel -- via quickened cuts on action -- as disoriented as principled protagonist Jacob (Mads Mikkelsen) does upon ...

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    REVIEW | Old Scars: Peter Miller's "Sacco and Vanzetti"

    by Nick Pinkerton on March 27, 2007

    Odd as it seems to say of a movie that covers a crime that's more than 80 years old, but Peter Miller's "Sacco and Vanzetti" is distinctly behind the times on the latest developments of its subject. In December 2005, a letter surfaced in California, purportedly penned by Upton Sinclair during the re...

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    REVIEW | The Great Plain: Scott Frank's "The Lookout"

    by Nick Pinkerton on March 27, 2007

    The title, to start with. "The Lookout"? My God, that's slack -- and these movies don't make themselves; meetings were probably held to get to that. Then move on to the poster, one of those long-afternoon-of-Photoshopping jobs, featuring a moody headshot of leading man Joseph Gordon-Levitt, cheekbon...

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    REVIEW | Early Thaw: Mark Fergus's "First Snow"

    by Kristi Mitsuda on March 21, 2007

    A classic cocky bastard, set up as such to better offset the impending humbling, Jimmy Starks (played to smooth and oily perfection by Guy Pearce) immediately reveals his nature alongside his broken down car on a deserted road: Holding up his cell phone to check reception, taking long drags off a c...

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    REVIEW | Off-key: Denis Dercourt's "The Page Turner"

    by Indiewire on March 20, 2007

    Any director working from as thin a premise as that which tries to undergird the nominal thriller "The Page Turner" better have style to burn, or at least the good sense to get the film over with as quickly as possible. Denis Dercourt's sadly lacking in the former department, though, having managed...

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    REVIEW | This Sporting Life: Jafar Panahi's "Offside"

    by Michael Koresky on March 17, 2007

    Not to overstate the obvious, or necessarily promote criticism that only contends in meaningless dialectics between high and low art, but, to put it bluntly, if given the choice between Jafar Panahi's eloquent, invigorating, tightly paced, and endlessly enjoyable "Offside" and the current box office...

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    REVIEW | Blood Brothers: "The Wind that Shakes the Barley"

    by Chris Wisniewski on March 15, 2007

    Ken Loach's camera pans and tilts its way through "The Wind that Shakes the Barley," as though its wandering gaze is in search of a fixed center, adrift in a world of shifting allegiances and gruesome violence. The off-the-cuff naturalism of Loach's technique proves something of a blessing here, blu...

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