must see films

Now predicted to break the $1 billion mark after just nineteen days, The Avengers has proved a joy to audiences, critics, and Disney executives alike. 

If there’s a response one might expect to be fairly universal among audiences ten minutes into Morten Tyldum’s film Headhunters, it’s dislike for the film’s

Tradition and modernity clash in Joshua Marston’s latest film. The director of Maria Full of Grace, makes his return to feature length films with The

There are few images that dominate Western perspectives of the Middle East more so than the burqa. Seen by many in the West as an

With Damsels In Distress, Whit Stillman returns to directing after 13 years by taking the sympathetic comedy of manners he’s known for and placing it

The Deep Blue Sea takes the viewer back in time to Britain in the 1950 – at least 15 years before those four Mop Tops

I turned up to the Vancouver Women in Film Festival on its second night, the day after International Women’s Day.  The event took place at

Oren Moverman’s Rampart has under its sweaty surface a plot involving police corruption, conspiracy, double-crossing and multiple investigations. But it’s set-dressing for what is ultimately

It is not often that the elderly are featured as protagonists, yet, The Secret Friend, which is based off a short story by Brazilian writer

Oliver Laxe turns in a noble, though plodding and confused first effort with You All Are Captains. In his attempt to create an introspective look

Recalling the sprawling hot summers of adolescence, Jess + Moss is a coming of age story told in an untraditional way. Clay Jeter’s feature film

Matt Porterfield’s Putty Hill has about it a quality of quiet observance, as if in mourning not only for the passing of Cory, the fictional