Independent Film

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  • "Maryam"

    In a delightful debut film, a New Jersey teen confronts boys, roller disco and the Iranian Revolution.
    By Andrew O'Hehir February 27, 2002

  • "Mean Machine"

    A snarky, soccer-hooligan remake of "The Longest Yard" offers action, attitude and grim English atmosphere.
    By Andrew O'Hehir February 26, 2002

  • "Monsoon Wedding"

    This eye-popping Indian wedding comedy is a guaranteed art-house hit. Too bad it misses all the good jokes.
    By Charles Taylor February 22, 2002

  • "Last Orders"

    Michael Caine heads a dream cast of veteran English actors in Fred Schepisi's unassuming masterpiece about life, love and the cruel joke of old age.
    By Charles Taylor February 15, 2002

  • "The Son's Room"

    Italian director Nanni Moretti's Palme d'Or winner is a delicate, distinctive drama of a family torn apart by grief.
    By Stephanie Zacharek February 8, 2002

  • "Brotherhood of the Wolf"

    "Dangerous Liaisons" meets "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" in this profoundly insane French horror movie. Plus: Native American kung fu!
    By Andrew O'Hehir February 1, 2002

  • "Storytelling"

    Todd Solondz's newest debacle drips with contempt for his audience, his characters and his critics.
    By Charles Taylor January 25, 2002

  • "What Time Is It There?"

    Tsai Ming-Liang's new movie about urban isolation reinvents the delicate, poetic shadow play of silent movies.
    By Charles Taylor January 11, 2002

  • "Gosford Park"

    Robert Altman delivers a heavily populated, slyly made romantic (and murderous) romp for the holidays.
    By Stephanie Zacharek December 26, 2001

  • "Lantana"

    "American Beauty" meets Bergman in this note-perfect masterwork on a modest, human scale.
    By Andrew O'Hehir December 21, 2001

  • "Iris"

    The film of novelist Iris Murdoch's life suffers from PBS syndrome, but Dame Judi Dench cures with a moving portrayal of life with Alzheimer's.
    By Charles Taylor December 14, 2001

  • "Kandahar"

    A stark and beautiful film traces an Afghan woman's journey across a landscape we may never understand.
    By Andrew O'Hehir December 14, 2001

  • "Piñero"

    A mythologizing biopic about a junkie playwright, thief and con man. The movie's a con, too.
    By Charles Taylor December 12, 2001

  • "The Business of Strangers"

    Julia Stiles and Stockard Channing breathe life into a cold, hard movie about the sadistic lives of corporate whores.
    By Charles Taylor December 11, 2001

  • "Waking Life"

    Adults love cartoons for their colors, their energy and their musical movement. Here's one that doesn't devolve into adolescent foolishness.
    By Stephanie Zacharek December 4, 2001

  • "The Fluffer"

    Stay away from this cautionary tale about the gay porn industry -- it blows.
    By Charles Taylor December 4, 2001

  • "The Affair of the Necklace"

    In an ill-advised costume drama with Hilary Swank, you take the movie's pleasures where you find them, in the corners of the room or under the rug.
    By Andrew O'Hehir November 30, 2001

  • "In the Bedroom"

    Small-town life erupts in this deceptively calm, emotionally shocking thriller from director Todd Field.
    By Andrew O'Hehir November 21, 2001

  • "Sidewalks of New York"

    Why is the Big Apple such a great town? Because sensitive, frat-boy-handsome movie directors like Ed Burns live there.
    By Andrew O'Hehir November 21, 2001

  • "I Want to Blow Up Silicon Valley"

    You can never go home again, an indie film warns, especially if your town's been overrun by techies.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski July 14, 2000

  • Forget Sundance

    Former Miramax exec Jack Lechner proclaims the death of the indie as we know it.
    By Michael Sragow January 27, 2000

  • Moving pictures

    Why have there been more good movies in the past eight weeks than in the past eight years?
    By Sarah Vowell November 17, 1999

  • "American Movie"-maker

    Chris Smith wins the indie-film lottery with his documentary about another struggling independent filmmaker.
    By Martin Knelman November 2, 1999

  • "Head On"

    Using rough sex and rougher drugs to escape the marriage-mortgage trap.
    By Daniel Mangin August 20, 1999

  • Home Movies by Charles Taylor: Barfly

    A boozy ice cream vendor romances a sweet young thing in Steve Buscemi's directorial debut.
    By Charles Taylor March 29, 1999
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