Movie Reviews
Castaways, Soldiers and a Good Car Chase
By MANOHLA DARGIS
The Film Comment Selects series exhumes the old and rounds up the new, unearthing treasures and curiosities set next to recent movies with and without American distribution.
Slide Show: Selects Scenes
MOVIE REVIEW | 'VANISHING ON 7TH STREET'
Disappearing People, Leaving a Lot of Clothes Behind
By MANOHLA DARGIS
The something wicked that comes creeping like night in "Vanishing on 7th Street," seemingly sucking people right out of their homes, cars and clothes, arrives without warning.
Video: A City Vanishes
MOVIE REVIEW | 'EVEN THE RAIN'
Discovering Columbus's Exploitation
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
A movie within a movie, "Even the Rain" draws parallels between the European colonialism of antiquity and more modern forms of exploiting indigenous populations.
MOVIE REVIEW | 'PUTTY HILL'
Drugs, Death and Downward Mobility in Baltimore
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Matt Porterfield's "Putty Hill" is a moody fusion of fiction and documentary, set in a working-class neighborhood in Baltimore.
MOVIE REVIEW | 'WE ARE WHAT WE ARE'
'We Are What We Are': They Are What They Eat
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Jorge Michel Grau's "We Are What We Are" follows the fortunes of a group of cannibals in Mexico City after its diseased leader dies in a shopping mall.
MOVIE REVIEW | 'UNKNOWN'
Me, My Doppelgänger and a Dunk in the River
By MANOHLA DARGIS
In Jaume Collet-Serra's "Unknown," Liam Neeson plays a botanist who wakes up in the hospital without any identification and with a missing wife (January Jones).
MOVIE REVIEW | 'I AM NUMBER FOUR'
Tales of Teenage Aliens
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Directed by D. J. Caruso, "I Am Number Four" is a high school movie with a dollop of science fiction: teenage aliens are being pursued by evil Mogadorians.
MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE LAST LIONS'
Tooth-and-Claw Life of a Dedicated Single Mother
By MANOHLA DARGIS
"The Last Lions," a heart-heavy wildlife documentary about the burdens of parenthood in a lion family, was created by Dereck and Beverly Joubert and narrated by Jeremy Irons.
MOVIE REVIEW | 'ZERO BRIDGE'
Bridges Can Still Exist in a Divided Land
By MIKE HALE
"Zero Bridge" is a moving slice of life from a corner of the world usually seen only in news reports.
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