Melissa Levine

Mira Nair’s Victorian England bursts with sensuality, but not impact.

Even a stellar cast can’t jump-start this dreary domestic drama.

Janis, the Dead, the Band, and others take the happiest trip of their lives.

The second Princess Diaries is a profligate commercial for materialism and privilege.

Jeff Bridges is at his swaggering best in a film about a couple wrecked by loss.

Deadpan irony is the rule in this triumphant high school geek comedy.

Nobody does nostalgic melodrama like Guy Maddin.

High school outcasts and Jesus freaks duke it out in Saved!

Jonathan Demme’s documentary brings a joyful revolutionary to the screen.

Sudanese refugees struggle to make their way in America.

A sweet German film pokes fun at East Berlin life after communism.