Nick Schager

Spike Lee returns to the Brooklyn neighborhoods of his most famous works — including his celebrated Do the Right Thing — with Red Hook Summer, and an early shot suggests that this trip home has reinvigorated the director. Tracking his protagonists as they navigate a courtyard in the projects, meeting......

King of Comedy: Filmmaker Kentucker Audley stars in '70s-flavored Bad Fever The shaky handheld cinematography might be conventionally modern, but from its opening white-letters-on-red-background credit sequence to its diligent focus on a wayward loner drifting about the outskirts of society and sanity, Bad Fever has the empathetic soul of '70s......

Conservative Texas governor and presidential hopeful Rick Perry comes across as the poster child for unjust death-penalty fanaticism in Incendiary: The Willingham Case, an exhaustive activist documentary about the posthumous efforts to exonerate Cameron Todd Willingham and, in doing so, to transform state forensic procedures. In 1991, abusive heavy-metaler Willingham......

Al Pacino romantically pursuing a cross-dressing Adam Sandler around a medieval castle should be stunningly surreal, so it's a not-inconsiderable failure that Jack and Jill manages only dim, desperate outrageousness instead. Credit some of that misfire to director Dennis Dugan (I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, Happy Gilmore), whose......

Kawasaki's Rose pivots around a long-suppressed bombshell, yet there's little overblown spectacle to Polish filmmaker Jan Hrebejk's graceful drama about psychiatrist Pavel (Martin Huba), who, on the eve of receiving an illustrious award for his renowned work as a dissident to Czechoslovakia's communist regime, is exposed as having been a......

Hot Dog… The Movie and its disreputable ski-comedy ilk might have been a low point in cinema history, but at least their unbridled crassness had energy; Chalet Girl embraces similar '80s tropes for a lethargic you-go-girl fairy tale. When English tomboy Kim (Felicity Jones) takes a job working at a......