FILM: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

There are few artists as important and as innovative today as Ai Weiwei and it is easy to see why in Alison Klaymanâs new documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry which follows the Chinese artist from his work on the Birds Nest Olympic stadium in 2008 to his prison release last year. She shows how he moves from one of the nationâs stars to something close More...

FILM: Trishna, starring Frieda Pinto
Not your motherâs Tess of the DâUrbervilles, director Michael Winterbottomâs take on the Thomas Hardy novel is updated and set in India. The setting gives the film beauty and vitality, although the story itself More...

FILM: Red Lights
X-Files fans, this one’s for you. Red Lights, the latest film from director/writer Rodrigo CortĂ©s, follows the quest of two scientists to disprove the paranormal, whatever the cost may be. Margaret Matheson More...

FILM: The Magic of Belle Isle starring Morgan Freeman
There may be some real magic in Rob Reinerâs new film The Magic of Belle Isle because I managed to connect to the film and enjoy it despite its overtly sappy, sentimental, and often predictable narrative. But More...

Actresses Greta Gerwig, Zoe Lister-Jones, and director Daryl Wein talk about their new film, Lola Versus
In the new film Lola Versus, starring Greta Gerwig (Greenberg), Lola must pick up the pieces of her life and start over after her long-time boyfriend and fiancé, played by Joel Kinnaman (The Killing), breaks off More...

FILM: Lola Versus
Lola Versus, the new, coming-of-age film starring Greta Gerwig as a newly single woman in New York, could have been a grating and self-involved re-hashing of a story that Iâve seen several times before. But instead, More...

FILM: Hysteria starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Hugh Dancy
Merging a classic tale of romance around the true history of the invention of the first vibrator might seem like a difficult combination to pull off but director Tanya Wexler manages to do it with success in the More...

FILM: Citizen Gangster starring Scott Speedman
More character study than thrilling heist-capades, Nathan Morlandoâs Citizen Gangster is a muted biopic of Edwin Boyd, Canadaâs sensationalist bank robber in the yearâs following World War II. Boyd, a brooding More...

FILM: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
On paper, the plot of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel doesn’t sound all that compelling: approaching their twilight years, a motley gang of Brits find themselves the only occupants of a dilapidated hotel in More...

FILM: Last Call at the Oasis
It’s easy to take water for granted in America, even though we are totally dependent on it for survival, but as director Jessica Yu illustrates in her new film, Last Call at the Oasis, it’s an issue More...