Jeffrey Overstreet

This year’s Oscar-winner for Best Foreign Language Film is as thrilling for its romance as for its murder mystery. But while it thinks it ends on a triumphant major chord, it’s actually rather dissonant.

And the answer is: Larry Mullen Jr. Apparently, the legendary drummer of U2 is playing the Johnny Hallyday role in the Canadian remake of Patrice Leconte’s wonderful film Man on the Train. He’s starring opposite Donald Sutherland, who probably has the Jean Rochefort role. The news popped up on Pop Goes the News, but the […]

Babies and pets are good for cheap laughs on the big screen, but are they good for anything else?

News from The Guardian on filmmaker Asad Qureshi who worked on [i]Empire of the Sun[/i] and Willow[/i], and who recently co-directed the film The Journalist and the Jihadi: The Murder of Daniel Pearl: A British documentary film-maker has gone missing after setting out to interview Taliban leaders in Pakistan’s lawless tribal area. Two former senior […]

The celebrated Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi is in prison, and deteriorating, according to his wife’s recent report.

Ramin Bahrani and Werner Herzog deliver a minor masterpiece of subversive wit and visual beauty.

Thomas Doherty, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, considers that endangered species known as the professional film critic: “It sucks,” decrees an Internet movie critic, sharing the most common aesthetic reaction in contemporary film criticism. In the viral salon of bloggers and chat-roomers, the finely tuned turns of phrase crafted by an earlier generation of […]

James Gray’s latest wraps three distinct, remarkable characters around a haunting question. It may make you miserable while you watch, but it will stick with you like few love stories do.