Nick Pinkerton

It's easy to believe there are no great movies left to find, but you've missed at least one if you haven't seen Deep End (1970), playing alongside four other Jerzy Skolimowski films at Cinefamily. The film is set in suburban London; Jane Asher and John Moulder-Brown co-star as Susan and......

The setting is the wartime precipice of 1938; the synthesizer score is distinctly 1983. When he finally succeeded in filming Junichiro Tanizaki's novel, Kon Ichikawa was 68 years old — a living link to Japan's cinematic Golden Age, taking on a self-consciously throwback prestige production. The Makioka Sisters details the......

Including glimpses of Sleeping Beauty in her glass coffin, the rings of Saturn, and a roadside Texas BBQ, Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life bears forth a variety of forms — and invites as many reactions. You may feel amazed or muddled, softly spoken to or simply abandoned while watching......

Enthusiasm is to be expected from a postulant nun, but there are worries about Hadewijch (Julie Sokolowski). Fingers knotted around her crucifix, surrendering her starvation diet of bread crusts to the sparrows, practicing self-mortification (unseen) — such single-minded ardency draws the disapproval of the mother superior, who calls the girl......

Why won't you die? There is a particular sort of stupid-acting-smart movie experience that can be achieved only through the reunion of David Arquette, Courteney Cox and Neve Campbell. Updated for 2011 with ad nauseam cellphone app and webcam references — none of which are integrated into the narrative with......

Eight-millimeter home movies and statist hymns from the Soviet past haunt Robin Hessman's My Perestroika, a documentary of a contemporary Russia pocked with international logos, in which five Muscovites recall their lives and, in the process, 40 years of national history. A married couple, teachers Borya and Lyuba Meyerson, testify......