Shirley Valentine
Dir. Lewis Gilbert
As an adaptation of the one-character play, it’s a delight to see Pauline Collins as Shirley Valentine rip into the…
Four Lions
Dir. Chris Morris & Christopher Morris
Four Lions is as black and as dark as a movie can ever get, mixing cultural relevancy with humor and…
In the Soup
Dir. Alexandre Rockwell
Making a film is sort of a miracle– to make one can sometimes come into fruition through a lucky combination…
A Coffee in Berlin
Dir. Jan-Ole Gerster
A black and white movie, A Coffee in Berlin is an early Woody Allen reminiscent film with a great emphasis…
The Good Boss
Dir. Fernando León de Aranoa
In this office comedy of errors, Javier Bardem plays Blanco, the titular boss, but whether he is actually good is…
The Square
Dir. Ruben Östlund
The Square is a peculiar movie about a respected contemporary art museum curator as he goes through a few very…
Obvious Child
Dir. Gillian Robespierre
This is a revelation of a movie for its simplicity in handling a pretty serious and dark subject. It’s the…
Barney's Version
Dir. Richard J. Lewis
When a film is about a person, most depictions would be presented in the best possible light, all to present…
Mistress America
Dir. Noah Baumbach
This is a slightly weird and not so slightly quirky movie to be avoided by anyone with a low tolerance…
Win Win
Dir. Tom McCarthy
Paul Giamatti knocks in out of the park in Win Win. The movie has so much humanity in it as well as…
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar
Break-ups aren’t the easiest thing to overcome, but how we deal with them usually doesn’t get as ludicrous as the…
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Dir. Jake Kasdan
If you’ve never seen Walk Hard before but still get déjà vu from just its first 10 minutes, that’s the…
Frances Ha
Dir. Noah Baumbach
Frances (Greta Gerwig) lives in New York – but not the glamorous NYC of Woody Allen movies. Taking place primarily…
Sunshine Cleaning
Dir. Christine Jeffs
Sunshine Cleaning is a great addition to that unidentified genre of grown-up comedies populated by other great entries like Your Sister’s Sister and Enough…
Chronicle of a Disappearance
Dir. Elia Suleiman
The debut feature by Palestine’s most well-known director, Chronicle of a Disappearance is an unusual movie about the decades-long Israel-Palestine…
Lars and the Real Girl
Dir. Craig Gillespie
Starring Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider, Kelli Garner and Patricia Clarkson. Lars and the Real Girl is a funny…
The Blackening
Dir. Tim Story
The tired stereotype is that in horror films, it’s always the Black characters who are the first to die. The…
The Death of Stalin
Dir. Armando Iannucci
This is a hilarious political comedy starring the ever-great Steve Buscemi. Set in the last days before Stalin’s death and…
Tel Aviv on Fire
Dir. Sameh Zoabi
This funny and charming movie is about a Palestinian slacker named Salam who works on a famous Israeli soap opera.…
Warehoused
Dir. Jack Zagha Kababie
When Sr. Lino started his warehouse job, he had to work for 11 years before being able to sit down…
Burn Burn Burn
Dir. Chanya Button
A razor-sharp script and beautiful scenery make this one of the best road movies in recent memory. When their cynical…
Office Space
Dir. Mike Judge
Before “burnout,” “bullshit jobs,” and “quiet quitting” became part of our everyday lexicon, there was a film in the ‘90s…
Your Sister's Sister
Dir. Lynn Shelton
The acting… oh the acting! Your Sister’s Sister is a fantastic comedy which makes great use of the amazing talents and…
Wristcutters - A Love Story
Dir. Goran Dukić
A dark and existential comedy, Wristcutters: A Love Story follows Zia (Patrick Fugit), a young man who commits suicide, only to…
Thank You for Smoking
Dir. Jason Reitman
As black a comedy as they come. Nick Naylor (superbly portrayed by Aaron Eckhart) is the chief spokesperson for tobacco…
Garden State
Dir. Zach Braff
Written and directed by Bambi from Scrubs himself, Garden State is one hell of a directorial debut. It is one of those…
Stuck in Love
Dir. Josh Boone
A beautifully intertwined love story showing the ups and downs of a father, his ex-wife, and their children experiencing love. The…