To truly let Marriage Story penetrate your heart is simple as long as you possess empathy for the complications of the human condition and allow the movie's unassuming soulfulness to wash over you.

To truly let Marriage Story penetrate your heart is simple as long as you possess empathy for the complications of the human condition.

The Squid and the Whale succeeds in showing a family divided in their unity.

It gives the impression that you’re scrolling through De Palma’s Wikipedia entry while he casts off pithy rejoinders over your shoulder.

These are the best films of 2015.

Mr. Jealousy is no less distinctive than any of Baumbach’s other work.

Noah Baumbach’s directorial debut Kicking and Screaming is a classic in the 90’s tradition of witty, talky indie films and the first in a long line of films about quarter-to-midlife crises. 20 years later, Baumbach is still grappling with the emotional paralysis we confront when attempting to figure out what to do with our lives. As his collaborations with Greta …

Mistress America is a madcap coming-of-age made with the distinctive imprint of writer/director Noah Baumbach.

Baumbach's latest is another story of wheel-spinning neuroticism in battle against itself, the protagonists worldview both criticized and tacitly supported.

The Act of Killing (Dir: Joshua Oppenheimer, Drafthouse Films) Anwar Congo and Herman Koto are the two most memorable characters I met at the movies this year. They are larger than life, full of charisma and swagger. They are also mass murderers. Director Joshua Oppenheimer sought out the victims of Suharto’s 1960s Indonesian death squads for what could have been …