Alexander Payne’s road movie about best friends taking a bachelor party on the road through California vineyard country is a modern buddy film with a seventies sensibility.
The third film from director Jeff Nichols is a story of childhood adventure steeped in the rural culture of life on the Mississippi and the mythology of Huckleberry Finn, but this boy’s adventure is also tangled in the world of adults and family bonds.
This intimate drama about a woman who put her aspirations on hold when her husband goes to prison earned awards at Sundance and the Independent Spirit Awards.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is the hopeless romantic who falls for a girl (Zooey Deschanel) who doesn’t believe in true love in this energetic romantic comedy.
This tale of one boy’s life was shot over the course of 12 years where we watch star Ellar Coltrane grow up on camera. Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawks costar.
J.K. Simmons swept the awards season for his performance as a ferocious music teacher in Damien Chazelle’s drama set in the world of college stage band competitions.
J.C. Chandor’s fictionalized take on the financial crash of 2008 explores the banalituyu of greed with stars Kevin Spacey, Zachary Quinto, Demi Moore, and Stanley Tucci.
