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A documentary on Philippe Petit, the man who walked on a wire between the World Trade Center towers in 1974, leaves the question of what motivates art to the viewer.

I returned from two and a half years of living abroad to discover that Beverly Hills, 90210, my guilty teenage pleasure, was being resurrected. This would be the perfect transition back to American culture, right?

Hong Kong director Wong Kar-Wai made his name chronicling romantic alienation with an unmistakable visual style. But his new film, My Blueberry Nights, is atmospherically innocuous and contentedly middle-aged. What happened?

Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days is a surprisingly optimistic consideration of individual motivation amidst the alienation of a rotting political system.

In her new documentary Protagonist, Jessica Yu explores the inner lives of four men whose righteous quests led to fanaticism.

Like the dark spaces between frames on a filmstrip, Ingmar Bergman took us to the unlit gaps in our own emotions.

A new film about an artist who documents Chinese factories explores the toxic interdependence between developed and developing nations.

Oceans Thirteen manages to avoid threequel-itis by conning movie-goers with its charm.