Le grand soirFilm ReviewsFrench troublemakers Benoit Delepine and Gustave de Kervern concoct yet another portrait of bizarre behavior in this virtually unexportable oddity.Peter Debruge5/27/2012 8:12am PT
Final Cut -- Ladies & GentlemenFilm ReviewsThe product of three years in the editing room, the playful pic consists of quick cuts from more than 450 classics of world cinema, artfully collaged to tell a love story.Alissa Simon5/26/2012 7:48pm PT
Therese DesqueyrouxFilm ReviewsClaude Miller's final film is tastefully upholstered, but the narrative generates little heat, empathy or momentum.Boyd van Hoeij5/26/2012 7:47pm PT
Miss LovelyFilm ReviewsDocumaker Ashim Ahluwalia ("John & Jane") makes an impressive transition to features with "Miss Lovely," an atmospheric tragedy set in the sordid world of Bombay's exploitation-film industry during the late 1980s.Alissa Simon5/26/2012 6:32pm PT
ManiacFilm ReviewsA shocker of a remake, equal parts stylish and scuzzy, "Maniac" only marginally softens the grindhouse sleaze of William Lustig's 1980 original.Rob Nelson5/26/2012 6:04pm PT
Journal de FranceFilm ReviewsA tribute to a masterful eye, a humanistic heart and a wondrous life, "Journal" is a natural for docu fests and Euro satcasts.Jay Weissberg5/26/2012 9:09am PT
Hold BackFilm ReviewsImagine visuals from a less disciplined, zero-budget episode of "The Office," and the look of Rachid Djaidani's "Hold Back" becomes clear.Jay Weissberg5/26/2012 8:23am PT
7 Days in HavanaFilm ReviewsPredictably patchy portmanteau pic "7 Days in Havana" sutures together seven flimsy-to-outright bad shorts set across a week in Havana, to forgettable effect.Leslie Felperin5/26/2012 7:47am PT
MudFilm ReviewsConfidently expanding his inquiry into the essence of American masculinity, Nichols' latest pressure-cooker pastoral conjures a wily figure of endangered Southern chivalry whose name is … you guessed it.Peter Debruge5/26/2012 7:45am PT
For Love's SakeFilm ReviewsLike a taxidermist, Takashi Miike removes the sinew and heart of the star-crossed amour between a good rich girl and a poor bad boy, only to stuff it with glossily macabre artifice, in "For Love's Sake."Maggie Lee5/26/2012 3:28am PT
The Taste of MoneyFilm ReviewsA trite and tangled potboiler that, despite its polemical pretensions, is just a glorified Korean domestic drama with classier couture and shapelier champagne flutes.Maggie Lee5/26/2012 3:17am PT
Ernest and CelestineFilm ReviewsA charming animated feature inspired by Belgium writer-illustrator Gabrielle Vincent's wholesome children's books of the same name.Leslie Felperin5/26/2012 3:01am PT
Memorial DayFilm ReviewsAn earnest and involving tribute to two generations of U.S. military personnel, "Memorial Day" will work best in ancillary platforms where the stateliness of its pacing can be alleviated by judicious pressings of the pause button.Joe Leydon5/26/2012 3:00am PT
3Film ReviewsAnother leisurely told shaggy-dog story from Uruguayan helmer/co-writer Pablo Stoll Ward ("Hiroshima"), "3" extends its episodic drollery about 30 minutes beyond what the material warrants, thus repping far too much of a good thing.Alissa Simon5/25/2012 9:06am PT
The Suicide ShopFilm ReviewsA cross between Charles Addams and Mad magazine, "The Suicide Shop" has cartoony fun with Jean Teule's cult novel, in which a Parisian family sells all the tools a weary soul could want for offing himself.Peter Debruge5/25/2012 9:04am PT
Chernobyl DiariesFilm ReviewsA wearyingly predictable thriller about "extreme tourists" who unwisely venture into a veritable ghost town near the site of the infamous nuclear power plant disaster. Joe Leydon5/25/2012 8:28am PT
Sofia's Last AmbulanceFilm ReviewsFaces convey all that auds need to know in tyro helmer Ilian Metev’s rigidly constructed and deeply human docu “Sofia’s Last Ambulance.” Jay Weissberg5/25/2012 8:24am PT
The Dream and the SilenceFilm ReviewsThe quotidian dealings of a Spanish family in Paris are rudely thrown off balance by a fatal offscreen accident.Boyd van Hoeij5/25/2012 8:20am PT
In the FogFilm ReviewsClassical in a good way, "In the Fog" explores the moralities of wartime with restraint and exacting execution when fate throws three men into conflict with each other by fate in Belorussia during WWII.Leslie Felperin5/25/2012 8:19am PT
CosmopolisFilm ReviewsAn eerily precise match of filmmaker and material, "Cosmopolis" probes the soullessness of the 1% with the cinematic equivalent of latex gloves. Justin Chang5/25/2012 7:47am PT