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20 Best Undistributed Films of 2013
1. Jealousy Philippe Garrel, France 2. Stray Dogs Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan/France 3. What Now? Remind Me Joaquim Pinto, Portugal 4. Nobody's Daughter Haewon Hong Sang-soo, South Korea 5. Abuse of...
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50 Best Films of 2013
History was brought to life in the top films in our 14th annual poll. The Coen Brothers’ portrait of a failed Sixties folk singer pulled ahead of Steve McQueen’s harrowing trip back to life under...
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Review: The Wolf of Wall Street
For the past 40 years, Martin Scorsese has been living one of contemporary cinema’s most fruitful and surprising double lives. Alongside the wide-canvas American epics for which he’s best...
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Review: Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Will Ferrell and Adam McKay are comedy’s premier purveyors of pop surrealism, and Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues is their most dream-like film since 2008’s Step Brothers. Their method is a modified...
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Review: The Selfish Giant
Taking its title from Oscar Wilde’s children’s fable, Clio Barnard’s second feature might seem a drastic departure from her docufiction hybrid debut, The Arbor (10). But the new film draws more on the...
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Film of the Week: Her
Spike Jonze’s Her is a tender, wry, deceptively modest package—and the closer you look, the more it reveals itself to be the proverbial Movie For Our Times. It would make a neat double bill with last...
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Review: All the Light in the Sky
Completed in 2012 but just now receiving its theatrical/VOD release, All the Light in the Sky finds Joe Swanberg undertaking the same themes and formal strategies as ever. Drinking Buddies was made...
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Romney’s 2013 Roundup
When I began a regular review slot on this website in September, my plan was simply to write about the most interesting film of the week, not necessarily the best. It just happens that I’ve been able...
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Film of the Week: Beyond Outrage
Actor, director, screenwriter, memoirist, artist, TV host… Takeshi Kitano has so far outdone even the most versatile of multi-hyphenates that you can well understand him experiencing a sort of...
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Interview: agnès b.
When it comes to making movies, agnès b. is as fiercely independent as her fashion line. Rising from the Parisian flea market where her thrift-shop style first caught the attention of Elle magazine,...
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Rep Diary: Barbara Stanwyck on Lux Radio Theatre
Left to Right: Cecil B. DeMille, unidentified actor, Gary Cooper, and Helen Mack rehearsing "The Virginian" During the heyday of moviegoing, decades before the rise of home video, Lux Radio Theatre...
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Interview: Ralph Fiennes
The cover story of our January/February issue is Amy Taubin’s feature on The Invisible Woman (available only in print, with a sidebar by Graham Fuller). The following interview took place last...
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Film of the Week: In Bloom
You might, without being disparaging, call In Bloom a perfect vin ordinaire of a film. It’s the sort of drama that you’ll always find at least one example of at any festival: an autobiographical...
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Festivals: Yamagata & Tokyo Filmex
Every other year since 1989, the sleepy northern Japanese town of Yamagata has hosted the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (YIDFF). For a week, a who’s who of international documentary...
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Festivals: Migrating Forms
Critical Mass The logo for the latest edition of Migrating Forms features a thumb resting in a giant nostril. The ubiquitous “thumbs up,” associated with Roger Ebert and Facebook likes, turns into an...
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Notebook: The Unity of All Things
One of the highlights of this year’s Migrating Forms, Alexander Carver and Daniel Schmidt’s debut feature deploys an allusive network of metaphors grounded in physics, geological time frames, and the...
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Interview: Alain Guiraudie
In the Jan/Feb issue, Jonathan Romney takes us through the career of Alain Guiraudie, and its curious mix of reality and fantasy (on view Jan. 24 - 30 in the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s...
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Film of the Week: God Help the Girl
It may not surprise you to hear that Stuart Murdoch’s musical God Help the Girl is a little, well, precious. It’s a word that crops up endlessly in discussions of the writer-director’s other job as...
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Rep Diary: A Time for Burning
In early 1967, the presciently titled documentary A Time for Burning appeared in theaters, months before race riots erupted in cities across the U.S. Originally aired on public television, the...
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Sundance 2014: Diary #1
Whiplash Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash focuses on Andrew, a talented drummer at a prestigious music academy who aspires to be one of The Greats. Andrew (Miles Teller of The Spectacular Now) enters the...
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