Tim Grierson

If you know director Terry Zwigoff only from his narrative films — Ghost World, Bad Santa, Art School Confidential — you’ve undoubtedly noticed his penchant for idolizing misanthropes. But where his features have often paraded a snotty outsider attitude — bad behavior for the sake of rude laughs — the......

As the Iraq war lurches into its fourth year and popular opposition grows, a litany of muckraking films and documentaries have recently inundated the marketplace. Violently anti-Bush works such as The Road to Guantanamo don’t offer fresh perspectives, though — they’re content to flatter the left’s cozy assumption that supporting......

If all directors have a God complex, then no filmmaker took the job description more literally than Stanley Kubrick. Far from a sweet, gentle deity with a kindly white beard, Kubrick staunchly refused to interfere in the affairs of mortals in his filmic universe, which led to persistent charges that......