Some quick hits, written on the airport shuttle, to finish up the fest: Twixt (Francis Ford Coppola) Equal parts idiotic and idiosync...

Coriolanus (Ralph Fiennes) This is definitely guilty of playing like “Shakespeare for Dummies” at times since Fiennes is trying as hard a...

Outside Satan (Bruno Dumont) Dumont exerts his mastery on an open-ended narrative here, gradually turning narrative withholding into spiri...

That Summer (Philippe Garrel) My basic opinion that if you’ve seen one recent Garrel film you’ve seen them all might have been something o...

Damsels in Distress (Whit Stillman) Perhaps the overbearing film festival climate is to blame, but this light, witty comedy from the usual...

Faust (Alexander Sokoruv) Beginning with a graphic vivisection, Sokoruv’s Faust initially suggests a radical shakeup of Goethe’s text. ...

Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin) Pretty much what the positive advance buzz suggested it would be, this drama about an escapee from a ...

In the interests of not falling hopelessly behind (these seven movie days are killer!), I’ll be brief: Rampart (Oren Moverman) Set...

Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky) Thinking back about Paradise Lost 3 , I realize that it’s possible I like...

Dark Horse (Todd Solondz) Solondz continues to shoot fish in a barrel in Dark Horse , his latest exploration of arrested development. F...

Lipstikka (Jonathan Segall) An absurd late-breaking plot twist undoes the largely credible relationship drama Lipstikka . Spanning a de...

Trishna (Michael Winterbottom) Trishna is Michael Winterbottom’s second adaptation of a Thomas Hardy, following his 1996 Jude , but whi...