by James Hansen Mirroring its own central conceit in several unfortunate ways, Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan functions as a double-edged sw...

by James Hansen The only really positive thing about Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours is that the audience gets what it expects. The story of Aron R...

by James Hansen It’s been a while since I’ve seen Gaspar Noé’s new film Enter The Void , which was born 163 minutes prematurely at the 2009 ...

by James Hansen Miguel Gomes’ Our Beloved Month of August is a lot of things at once: a blatantly reflexive formalist inquiry into the natu...

by James Hansen With his stature becoming more and more mythic with each passing year (and each new film), 101-year-old Portuguese filmmaker...

by James Hansen Samuel Maoz’s debut feature Lebanon - winner of the Golden Tiger at the 2009 Venice International Film Festival (and one of...

interview by James Hansen After its fall premieres at the Toronto and New York Film Festivals, Harmony Korine's Trash Humpers is uneart...

by Brandon Colvin At the conclusion of Green Zone , the film’s whistle-blowing soldier-hero-everyman protagonist, Chief Warrant Officer Roy ...

by James Hansen Given the recent events in Texas, Breck Eisner’s The Crazies initially seems full of restrained timeliness. Something is wr...

by James Hansen Selected as the Opening Night Film for MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight 2010 (running now through March 3), David Christensen’s ...

by Brandon Colvin Saturday Night Live , that bastion of incisive film criticism, featured a sketch this week in which Martin Campbell’s Edge...

by James Hansen It might sound like an extended YouTube video gone array, but Zachary Oberzan’s Flooding With Love for the Kid – a feature ...