The Whistleblower -- Film Review
The incendiary subject of human trafficking provides the gritty backdrop for "The Whistleblower," a fact-based thriller starring Rachel Weisz as a Nebraska cop who witnesses the atrocities firsthand when she joins a U.N. peacekeeping team in post-war Serbia.
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Special Treatment -- Film Review
Parisian sophistication is hard work in Jeanne Labrune's ineffectual "Special Treatment," which attempts to explore the similarities between prostitution and psychoanalysis.
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The Big Picture -- Film Review
Eric Lartigau's "The Big Picture," a French adaptation of Douglas Kennedy's American novel, accomplishes the trick of capturing the book's essence but changes every superficial and geographical detail.
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Girlfriend -- Film Review
Justin Lerner's "Girlfriend" claims to be the first U.S. feature film to star a person with Down syndrome, namely Evan Sneider, who plays a young man with a major crush on a single mom whom he has coveted since high school.
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Cave of Forgotten Dreams -- Film Review
You might have guessed that if Werner Herzog ever made a 3D movie, he would use it to explore art, spirituality and the nature of humanness. "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" is that movie. To call this movie fascinating is akin to calling the Grand Canyon large.
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Peep World -- Film Review
"Peep World," a comedy about a dysfunctional family of four adult siblings who remain in a serious state of arrested development, wants very much to be "The Royal Tenenbaums" when it grows up.
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The Bang Bang Club -- Film Review
Rather than immersing the viewer in the wartorn backdrop of South Africa, circa 1994, "The Bang Bang Club" concerns itself with the sex/drugs/rock 'n' roll-lite lifestyle of its young, white, male protagonists.
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The Trip -- Film Review
Michael Winterbottom's listless foody travelogue "The Trip" is made up of highlights from a six-part BBC series that has yet to air, but if these are the best bits then no one will mind waiting.
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