Several years ago, I convinced the editors of Parade magazine to let me write an…
Leopold “Poldek” Socha is a sewer worker in Nazi-occupied Lvov, Poland, who takes advantage of…
Although it takes place in the murky and ugly world of beef cattle raised with…
You just don’t get that many family dramas about Talmudic scholars, but Footnote (Hearat…
It’s sixth-grader Simon’s day to deliver milk cartons at school before classes start. But when…
Dogtooth (Kynodontas) is such a bad film that it calls into question the Academy’s nomination…
Inspired by a play by Lebanese-Canadian writer Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies is a powerful reminder…
Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi) opens with not one, but two prologues. First, in 1925,…
Javier Bardem won a best actor nomination for his role in Biutiful. The last…
Ajami is yet another film in which the director seems to think it is artistically…