Flicks w/ The Film Snob

An innocent man is accused of child sexual abuse in Thomas Vinterberg's harrowing portrait of group fear and ostracism.

Matthew McConaughey plays a man on the run from the law who enlists the help of two boys, in Jeff Nichols' latest film, Mud.

One of the few Hollywood films to deal intelligently with religious themes, The Nun's Story also features what is arguably Audrey Hepburn's finest performance.

Sarah Polley's exploration of her late mother's secrets also has the wider theme of how we frame our family histories through storytelling.

This film about the eminent philosopher's controversial engagement with the Holocaust is remarkable for its ability to make intellectual issues come alive on screen.

Shirley Clarke's adaptation of a famous stage play about heroin addicts was first banned, then became a breakthrough for greater freedom of expression in film.

The third film in Richard Linklater's trio about man-woman relationships cuts right to the bone--the need to go past romance.

A tense Irish drama about an emotionally scarred woman (Andrea Riseborough)compelled to turn informer on the IRA, features Clive Owen as an anguished MI5 agent.

This little known gem from 1973, about a party loving country singer (Rip Torn) ripping and running his way across Alabama, is an example of the creative freedom that briefly surfaced in American films at that time.

The new film by Olivier Assayas is a beautifully realized portrait of a time of great ferment in history and the director's own life: the early 1970s.

Greta Gerwig plays a young woman whose meandering attempts to get somewhere with her life are hampered by unspoken grief about losing touch with her best friend, in a funny and touching film she co-wrote with Noah Baumbach.

Gilles Bourdous' new film portrays the impact of a beautiful young model and muse on the lives of the great painter Auguste Renoir, and his son Jean, the future director.

This documentary presents a record of one of the first government hearings to be televised live--the infamous showdown between the Army and the anticommunist Senator Joe McCarthy.

Under house arrest and banned from directing films, Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi gets around the censorship, and makes a profound statement about art along the way.

Francois Ozon's clever spoof of suspense films portrays a young author whose voyeuristic adventures fascinate his writing teacher.