A beautiful nature film, with gorgeous, multicolored shots of bees and flowers. It also is a well-made documentary about the troubles of the honeybee.

The three-part anthology opens with its best shot, Hong Kong fruitcake Fruit Chan's "Dumplings," photographed by the great Christopher Doyle.

You care for these warriors, no matter which uniform they're wearing. I don't know Taub's intentions, but The Fallen makes a potent antiwar statement.

Sweetly appealing fable.

It’s an impressive first effort from Kravitz that, like the island and the women, immediately has us in its grip.

War was both cruel and magnificent, as Churchill once put it. To Gibson, it still is.

Dazzling fun. Jerry is master of a new domain.

Guy Maddin's films are always delightful, but his latest, My Winnipeg, has an added treat for film buffs: It features Ann Savage!

The recent trend in political documentaries is for filmmakers to heap ridicule and sarcasm on people they don't agree with, a la Michael Moore. Waiting for Armageddon (which has nothing to do with the 1998 Michael Bay movie) demonstrates that sometimes it's far more devastating to simply point the camera at your subjects and let them talk.

Another Harlan work, "Kolberg" (1945), inspired the film within the film in "Inglourious Basterds."

Leigh's uncanny ability to mine emotional truth packs the usual punch. And the trademark flashes of humor sprinkled throughout ease the bleakness of the landscape.

Full of fine performances, led by Josef Bierbichler as Brecht and Monica Bleibtreu as Helene Weigel, his wife. Taken on its own terms, The Farewell makes for rewarding viewing.

Luckily for us, Grace Lee recorded everything in the fun documentary The Grace Lee Project.

The feature directorial debut of Jake Schreier, has a smart script by C.D. Ford and an impressive supporting cast.

A sophisticated, stylish, fast-moving piece of work.

A tough, well-acted little indie.

Man's inhumanity to man is gruesomely detailed in S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine.

Like its star, the movie is too short and a little thin but just about perfect.

Chilling documentary.

American Animal is a wildly experimental debut for D'Elia, who uses hand-held digital cameras and lots of jump cuts. It is well-acted and features witty repartee.

Watching Schenck and McBath campaign to fellow Christians for a dissociation between God and guns, you suspect their words are falling on deaf ears.

Viewers in Gotham will be perplexed, frightened, disgusted - and, mostly, entertained.

Mesmerizing, eerie and unpredictably weird.

Frequently charming, beautifully drawn and far more faithful in spirit to the source material than those dreadful Ron Howard-Brian Grazer productions.

A riotous dark comedy in which a cute suburban get-together becomes a lethal nightmare.

While a tad too light, as these films often are, nobody is making animated characters as funny or likable (or marketable) as the Minions.

A well-acted, well-directed (by TV veteran Anthony Hemingway) popcorn movie with great aerial battles and solid dramatic scenes that hold your attention for two good hours.

The scrappy striver narrative may be an overly familiar one at this point, but director Tom Harper (the BBC’s “War & Peace”) gets a terrific performance from Buckley as Rose chases her dreams while living the kind of turbulent life that has always inspired the best of country songs.