Michelle Orange

Set in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighborhood of Montreal during Quebec's 1995 secession referendum,Good Neighbors uses a dark historic moment as the backdrop for a much darker twist on traditional noir. Gothy waitress Louise (Emily Hampshire) and wheelchair-bound widower Spencer (Scott Speedman) are part of the young, English-speaking influx that has changed the......

THE BANG BANG CLUB “Yes, I think we all used her,” Eve Arnold once said of Marilyn Monroe. “I think as a photographer, one has to accept the fact that one does invade other people’s privacy.” If photographing a movie star poses an ethical dilemma, what questions are raised by......

HENRY’S CRIME A low-blood-sugar heist movie set in the tumbleweed thoroughfares of downtown Buffalo, Henry’s Crime has a little too much in common with its aimless namesake. Early on, Henry (Keanu Reeves), a tollbooth jockey and first-class space cadet, gets tricked into being the getaway driver for a bank stickup,......

MEET MONICA VELOUR "You screw a few hundred guys and the whole world turns against you," says Linda Romanoli (Kim Cattrall) in Meet Monica Velour, an innocuous dramedy whose main attraction is the committed performance (and meta-performance) of its female lead. Far removed from Samantha Jones' stiletto stomping grounds and......

AN AFFIRMATIVE ACT A promising story obscured by showy genre twists, An Affirmative Act is launched as a social-issue tract about a lesbian couple in New Jersey who married and adopted a child while one of them posed as a man. Directed by first-timer Jana Mattioli, the film veers into......

CAT RUN There’s this woman named Cat (Paz Vega), see, and she’s on the run. She’s running from “the boss,” “the enforcer,” “the exploiter,” “the seeker” and other generic heavies introduced with increasingly meaningless titles as they enter the fray of this hyperprocessed pulp caper. After comely call girl Cat......

LORD OF THE DANCE 3D Michael Flatley knows what you think of him. He's heard it all — cantering megalomaniac, spotlight-humping hambone — and he's here to tell you that he's selling out stages around the world without you. Yet I suspect even his fans — and I could now......