Despite the powdery condescension of its title, this film is a delight, with astonishing performances by English grandes dames Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. It’s 1936, and the women play elderly sisters Ursula and Janet, who live together in their childhood home on the seaside cliffs of southwest England.

Combining the classroom realities of To Sir, With Love with the infectious musical spirit of Mr. Holland's Opus, this charmer from France manages...

“To say of a movie that it makes you feel like taking a shower afterward usually isn’t taken as a compliment. In the case of Dana Brown’s Dust To Glory, it should be.

Brimming with intellectual ambition, this gripping drama from Israeli director Eytan Fox takes on the hardened heart of Israel on just about every hot issue, notably the country's tangled relationship to the old and new Germanies, to the Palestinians, and to its own post-Holocaust obsession with seeing enemies around every corner.

The combination of Woody Allen and Will Ferrell and the familiar Manhattan locales would be enough in itself to make Melinda and Melinda a very appealing proposition.

“If Alexander Payne’s great comedy Sideways whetted your appetite for the romance of wine and winemaking, Jonathan Nossiter’s documentary Mondovino provides a splash of reality as it plunges you into the special domain of multicultural conflict and commercialization in which the vintners grow their grapes and peddle their pinot noirs, champagnes and chardonnay.

“Crash is not just one of the best Hollywood movies about race, but one of the finest portrayals of contemporary Los Angeles life period. It begins as it ends, with the discovery by two cops (played by Don Cheadle and Jennifer Esposito, who are also lovers in the movie) of a man’s body sprawled beside a freeway, then jogs back 24 hours to the events that led to his death.

"At last, the cure for depression! This winning documentary about fifth-graders who learn ballroom dancing is one of those movies that makes the world a brighter place.

This might be one of the best French Canadian dramas to be released in a long time, with certainly one of the finest performances of the year.

Films as expansive as teh brilliant Chinese Feature The World defy easy summarization.