Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin, based on the book by Lionel Shriver, is built like a puzzle.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 01/13/12

John Hawkes as Patrick, the leader of Martha Marcy May Marlene's farmhouse cult, is a gangly, guitar-playing father figure who veers away from the typical formula; his soft voice and sound encouragement nudge here, bait there.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/21/11

Wound up by James Sallis's cinematic prose, Ryan Gosling sought out director Nicolas Winding Refn  (Bronson, Valhalla Rising) to direct Drive.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 09/16/11

With music that's equal parts twitchy, poppy, hallucinatory, and deeply dreamy, Bikini wants you to remember the good old times—even while you're experiencing them.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/12/11

Brothers Josh and Benny Safdie make movies. They make long ones, like their Cannes-premiered features The Pleasure of Being Robbed and Daddy Longlegs, and shorter ones like their "fever dream comedy" John's Gone.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 06/14/11

In Emmy-winning director Liz Garbus' documentary Bobby Fischer Against the World, which airs tonight on HBO, the prodigy-turned-recluse's life is chronicled, not just as biography but as an analogy (to a degree) of the Cold War.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 06/06/11

In Beginners, Mike Mills' follow-up to 2005's Thumbsucker, the director's portrayal of loss, love, and starting over, is a patchwork of chronology—of personal history and History (of the world).  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 06/03/11

Grimes is Claire Boucher, a Vancouver-born Montrealer whose enigmatic sound has seduced and puzzled critics; "ethereal," "indecipherable," "gauzy," and "otherworldly" are just some of the ways she's been described.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 05/24/11