Angelika Film Center

Twice before, first with Topsy-Turvy and then with Vera Drake, Mike Leigh has punctuated his bittersweet studies of contemporary life with period dramas. Now, with Mr. Turner, the British director of Naked and Secrets & Lies takes us back to the 1...

Hidden codes, secret meanings and mixed messages pulse through the reliable, old-fashioned, buzzing copper wires of true-life period drama The Imitation Game. Snappy and not too solemn, but perhaps not as much of a psychological puzzle as it could...

Ever since Boogie Nights, the untamable Paul Thomas Anderson has thrilled us with the mania of self-made men—porn stars, game-show hosts, oil prospectors and cultists. Now, for a change, the director grabs you by the nose: Inherent Vice, Anderson'...

Forget about the big eyes and wonder instead at the even bigger size of Christoph Waltz’s overplayed performance in this disappointing true-life drama from Tim Burton, better known for the larger likes of Alice in Wonderland. Here Burton ditches h...

Alzheimer’s disease is a Greek tragedy: Preordained by genetics (if not the Fates themselves), the neurodegenerative disorder is an unfathomably cruel death march down a tunnel that disappears behind you and gets darker with every step. Still Alic...

Dismissing Song One as a weak Williamsburg cover of Once really ought to feel more reductive than it does. Both are short, guileless and narratively threadbare indies about two wounded people brought together by the healing power of music. But whe...