Movie Review | 'Liberty Kid': Two Drifting Life Rafts on a Sea of Circumstance
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Thereâs not a single wrong note in âLiberty Kid,â Ilya Chaikenâs poignant drama about marginal lives strained to breaking by the aftermath of Sept. 11.
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It has been well recorded that the mid-nineties are best known for sudden popularity of independent cinema, but independent from what? The term "indie" is as slippery when applied to films as it is to music. The studio at the vanguard of this "revolution" was Miramax, which was long a subsidiary of Disney, and as for the "revolution" itself, it unleashed more painful and derivative Pulp Fiction clones than it did anything truly revolutionary. It was bled dry, turned inside out, repackaged, and sold back to the masses until it became the paradigm of unhipness. This seems to be the nature of all revolutions, from the Soviets to the Sixties; the bullshit always comes full circle.     While it's easy to be cynical of all so-called revolutions in hindsight, what one can't be cynical about is the intense enthusiasm audiences had for the so-called independent cinema of this era. To every person who ever dreamed of being in the director's chair, it seemed like all one needed to have the new hit movie was a vast knowledge of pop culture, the ability to write pages worth of rambling dialogue, and a Visa card.
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Woody Allen's latest film touches on all the things he likes to ponder Â that there's no God, that life is savage and fleeting, that anyone potentially can get away with unspeakable acts if they don't have a conscience to bother them.
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âMy Life as a Child,â a six-part documentary series on TLC, is a video collage of 21st century American childhood.
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Revolutionary or unreadable? The long, strange afterlife of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
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âYouth Without Youthâ is a narratively ambitious, visually sumptuous surrealist enterprise that tries to bend time and space together as neatly as the folds in an origami swan.
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Itâs not easy to turn one of the most controversial events of the 20th century into a movie that makes your eyes roll, but âO Jerusalemâ does this and worse.
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It's a thoroughly Hollywood version of a "true story," but this film's got heart -- and a worthwhile message
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The documentary âDeep Waterâ begins like a Boyâs Own adventure tale but ends up more akin to tragedy.
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&quot;Birth,&quot; the new Nicole Kidman reincarnation drama, is such a meticulously wrought piece of hokum that it&#39;s both easy to admire and impossible to warm up to.
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The end of the summer sees an interesting mix of movies. You have the action flicks that are maybe good enough to win an award, like Collateral.
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Dito Montiel's autobiographical tale is so full of life and feeling that the screen can hardly contain it.
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A young man's quest for freedom takes him  on a two-year journey from South Dakota to Alaska in Sean  Penn's new film, a road movie chronicling the true story of a  24-year-old adventurer who did not come back.
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Children may be charmed by the talking animals in 'Racing Stripes.' Adults may find the film exasperating.
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If you want to be up the proverbial creek Without a Paddle, be my guest. Just be forewarned: These waters are putrid. In an inept movie that makes even Catwoman seem sane, Steven Brill turns Without a Paddle into twaddle about the strength of boyhood ...
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Despite occasional detours into sentimentality, this Irish film is better than the usual three-stage journey of courage, heartbreak and redemption.
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Jia Zhang-ke's film of life in an amusement park is a quietly despairing vision of contemporary China with an almost ethnographic attention to detail.