Angelika Film Center

Adam

First-time writer director Max Meyer offers this comedy drama about a lonely autistic man (Hugh Dancy) and the bizarre relationship...

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Reviewed at the Venice Film Festival 2009

Did you hear the one about the German maverick who signed on to remake a notorious...

Big Fan

It’s easy—painfully easy, for some viewers—to recognize the football lover at the center of Robert D. SiegelAudrey Tautou stars in this lavish biopic of famed fashion designer Coco Chanel. Based on the novel by Louie PsihoyosMike Judge’s...

Five Minutes of Heaven

As a subgenre of torn-from-the-headlines tragedies, the cinema of Ireland’s “The Troubles” has pretty predictable motifs: period-appropriate bad haircuts, rioters chucking rubble,...

Me and Orson Welles

Paper Heart

In this slippery bit of postmodern playfulness, Yi plays Charlyne Yi, comedian and actor, who is making a documentary about love, a concept in which she does not believe (Awww). In the...

Pirate Radio

Forget about the facts, common sense or good taste for a moment. Consider the circumstances, befitting a comedy, of Pirate Radio. Evidently, there was once a powerful...

Still Walking

Buried family traumas lie at the heavy hearts of many recent American dramas, films like Rachel Getting Married, Ballast, even The Wrestler....

The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee

Pippa Lee may appear the perfect dinner party hostess, but we know different. Fiftysomething spouse Robin Wright Penn has...

Whatever Works

As comic steam escapes from Woody Allen’s infuriating latest—like five minutes in—a terrible truth is clear. It...