Movies
Though he wouldn’t call it a comeback, he would call it a return.
Sept. 11, 2013
With its buzzing punk rock music and spunky, spiky adolescent heroines, “We Are the Best!”
May 24, 2014
Review: Personal style and wide-ranging outrage fuse in an all-encompassing manifesto as teens attempt to revive punk rock at the dawn of new wave in Lukas Moodysson’s energetic ‘We Are the Best!’
May 29, 2014
The bleak film tells a cruel story, yet looking away is difficult.
April 18, 2003
Swedish director Lukas Moodysson scans the atrium of a slick TriBeCa hotel and, rather than comment on how cool it is, says, “I think those railings are too low for children.”
Sept. 7, 2001
It’s a word painted on a been-around VW bus, the name of the collective in Stockholm that jointly owns the vehicle, and the title of this relaxed, intimate, wonderfully clear-eyed and altogether charming Swedish comedy of manners that deals with the accident-waiting-to-happen phenomenon known as communal living.
Roman Polanski’s “The Pianist” and Pedro Almodovar’s “Talk to Her” were among the nominees announced Thursday for best European film of 2002.
Nov. 8, 2002
Numerous as tubes of Clearasil are films about teenagers in love, but unusual as an unblemished face are those that get it right.
Oct. 22, 1999
One of last year’s best pictures was Lukas Moodysson’s “Lilya 4-ever,” in which Oksana Akinshina played a Russian girl in the immediate post-Soviet era who is tricked into becoming a prostitute in Sweden.
April 16, 2004
Throughout the year people you thought you knew showed they were still full of surprises.
Dec. 19, 2014