Author: Robert Levin

If a major American city wants to be taken seriously as a cultural center, it needs a world-class art museum. Such institutions are a ubiquitous…

If there’s one thing Bruce Willis knows, perhaps better than anyone alive, it’s how to play a cop in a movie. He’s done so at…

In Cop Out, for the first time, Kevin Smith takes on a script for hire. In place of Jay, Silent Bob, his other stock View…

An earnest, studiously straightforward message movie, Jeb Stuart’s Blood Done Sign My Name tries to get by on the strength of its performances and the…

Let’s make one thing clear: A Prophet, which earned significant acclaim at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival (where it won the Grand Prix), does not…

Catfish is a movie for which the old “truth is stranger than fiction” adage might have been invented. It’s a documentary that begins in a…

Deeply felt, operatic emotions lie at the heart of Bryan Poyser’s Lovers of Hate. That they’re disguised beneath the exterior of a low-fi indie picture…

Winter’s Bone offers a complete immersion in its Ozark Mountains setting, which is so foreign it might as well be a different planet. Like the…

Splice borrows liberally from its horror/sci-fi predecessors and emerges with something weirdly original. David Cronenberg stands as the undeniable primary influence on director/co-writer Vincenzo Natali,…