The film ultimately fizzles, but Hélène Louvart’s powerful camera work and Dickinson’s star-making performance make the journey worthwhile.

This Romanian film conveys the dreary realism of a society rotting from within.

An intriguing debut feature overcomes flaws with dazzling visuals and strong performances.

It traces the stark and rapid decline of the public university system.

Time travel stories can present all sorts of wonderfully mind-bending possibilities for the creative storyteller, but an awful lot of logical pitfalls. If Marty McFly accidentally keeps his parents from getting together and nullifies his existence, then he couldn’t have hopped into that DeLorean and keep them apart, reinstating his existence, and around and around the wheel of folded time causality spins. Most filmmakers tend to try to skip over these inherent paradoxes in order…

How nice is too nice? How sunny too sunny? Just how much Technicolor optimism can one working class corner of London bear before thoroughly breaking down the purveyor of this bubbly outlook with the grim scowl of reality? These are the questions posed in Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky. And Leigh knows a thing or two about those grim realities. He’s spent much of his career exploring just how they rip us apart. Sally Hawkins stars as…