Nathan Gelgud

Hereafter opens Friday throughout the Triangle (see times below) Our rating: The worst thing about being a psychic is that it doesn’t even help you get chicks. Having the gift of being able to speak with the dead makes it so hard to be normal that even a looker like Matt Damon has to take […]

Waiting For “Superman” opens Friday in select theaters (see below for times) Our rating: Beware of any polemicist who claims to have children’s best interests in mind while advocating for longer school hours. Maybe Bill Gateswhose towers of money seem to replace any need for actual expertisethinks that longer hours, pre-K schooling and (gulp!) school […]

Jack Goes Boating opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: Jack Goes Boating is the story of two vaguely damaged people who get fixed up by mutual friends. Philip Seymour Hoffman is Jack, a chauffeur for his uncle’s limousine service. The woman who takes to him, somewhat unbelievably, is Connie (Amy Ryan), […]

Wild Grass opens Friday throughout the Triangle (see times below) Our rating: In a deliberately frustrating move for his audience, veteran director Alain Resnais introduces the two main characters of Wild Grass by filming only the backs of their heads. When eccentric 60-something fox Marguerite (Sabine Azéma) goes to buy shoes, her purse is snatched. […]

Made in U.S.A. and Two or Three Things I Know About Her begin Saturday at the Carolina Theatre (see times below) Jean-Luc Godard once claimed that he would have liked to take two of his films, Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) and Made in U.S.A. (1966), and interweave them by alternating […]

Cyrus opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: Cyrus the new film from Jay and Mark Duplass (Puffy Chair, Baghead), is a love-triangle comedy about a down-and-out divorcé (John C. Reilly), the woman he falls for (Marisa Tomei) and that woman’s 21-year-old son (Jonah Hill). Engaging, problematic, and occasionally suspenseful, Cyrus leaves […]

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, the new film by Full Frame mainstays Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg (The Devil Came on Horseback; The Trials of Darryl Hunt), is a brisk, nonstop funny look at a year in the […]

Please Give opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: Please Give is a mellow comedy from Nicole Holofcener that makes some big ideas feel pretty light but never simplified. Catherine Keeneralways good but never betterplays Kate, an Upper West Sider who owns a mid-century modern furniture store with her husband, Alex (Oliver […]

Looking for Eric opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Ken Loach’s Looking for Eric begins behind the wheel of a car going the wrong way down a one-way street. Cars swerve around the driver until finally a collision has the screen go black. Somehow, veteran director Ken Loach has made this feel incredibly […]

City Island opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: Juliana Margulies looks terrific! Maybe it’s the way she’s grown into her 40s without trying to hide it, or maybe it’s the bangs (she’s never had bangs before, has she?) or that Bronx dame eyeliner she’s rocking, but there’s something sexy and fascinating […]