Plumbing the same psychological terrain as personal documentaries like “Sherman’s March” and “Capturing the Friedmans,” Block’s aching auto-history is a kind of detective story that morphs into an extended meditation on ...

Actor/Director Crystal's well-known affection for both the game and the team permeates this reverent, affecting film from HBO, which scored at the Emmys with a whopping twelve nominations (it won two). His casting of ...

Studiously avoiding maudlin sentiment as well as exploitive intrusion, Rosenbaum constructs his film around the voices of those whose lives were devastated in different ways by the suddenness and violence of 9/11. A ...

Not for all tastes, Haneke’s provocative take on emotional stagnation in the modern world was one of the Austrian director’s first attempts to come to terms with society’s hidden violence and the deafening, meaningless ...

In this, the director's most personal work, Fellini ventures further from traditional narrative, with fascinating results. “8 ½ “represents his first sustained foray into the blurring of reality and illusion, ...

A love story for literate lonelyhearts, Jones's "Road" brings a lot of cheeky, intelligent charm to Hugh Whitemore's stage adaptation of the real-life Hanff's endearing memoir. Bancroft is splendid as the punchy ...

While they never set out to make a documentary about 9/11, fate and timing put the Naudet brothers in a unique position to create the most devastating chronicle of this still unthinkable event, capturing all the shock ...