That Upstream Color even exists represents both a triumph and a rebuke to the mainstream film-production system that couldn’t spring for a work this daring and, for all its polish, most likely inexpensive.

Without putting too much weight or importance behind what a bunch of now-elderly former youths once wanted to express, one of the key things that keeps the spirit of punk alive, or at least on life support, is class anger. ...

Most people who’ve been halfway paying attention know the story of film, or at least some version of it. Eadweard Muybridge, Thomas Edison, jerky silents, talkies, glossy Hollywood studios, the New Wave, the ’70s, Star Wars, indies, CGI, something like ...

Terrence Malick’s trademark lyricism was in full bloom in Badlands, his very first film, and many of his auteurial touches well established. But the Criterion Collection’s new DVD/Blu-ray issue reintroduces a film that’s far flintier and more fraught than Malick’s ...

As writer/director Julia Loktev’s elliptical style and carefully parsed feed of information telegraph, the journey at the center of The Loneliest Planet (MPI DVD, download, and streaming) isn’t merely geographical, and the perils aren’t confined to getting lost.

Carax takes what may very well have started off as a hodgepodge of ideas and weaves them together into a tantalizingly cohesive whole, despite the constant puckish wrong-footing and tangents.

Dredd (Lionsgate) probably shouldn’t be any fun. It is an avowed attempt to undo the damage done to the vintage sci-fi comic’s rep by Judge Dredd, the hacktacular 1995 Sylvester Stallone vehicle, and it does so by doubling down on ...

There are more than 100,000 homes standing vacant in the city of Detroit, many of them fallen into what can only be characterized as ruin. Combined with equally vast tracts of crumbling industrial infrastructure, these acres of shambles have come ...

Compliance (Magnolia) would be a 15-minute short without the not-uncommon quality that gives it its title. Based (alarmingly closely) on actual events, writer/director Craig Zobel’s new film aims to get at the get-along/go-along relationship we have with power, and the ...

Perhaps it’s a function of generation, but I remain fascinated by the short period during which Charlton Heston was Hollywood’s Man of the Future, its übermensch of dystopia. Maybe it was simply the success of The Planet of the Apes ...

Our critic picks the best DVD, Blu-Ray, and streaming choices of the year.

Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius) are skeptical. They’ve heard about the ethereal blonde woman drawing followers to a suburban California basement, but they can’t believe she’s anything but a sham, a cult leader sucking in the gullible, the ...

For a generation of filmgoers, the very title is synonymous with “bloated debacle.”

If there was ever a time for Weekend to reappear, it’s our recessionary, Occupied era.

In many ways, Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (Music Box DVD) is a film about watching a woman sit nonreactive, silent, motionless in front of a parade of strangers for hours, for weeks, for months. But Matthew Akers’ new ...