Wendy R. Weinstein

IN AMERICA

Jim Sheridan's rueful, semi-autobiographical film In America follows a poor, young Irish family as they struggle to make a home in New York City. Once they find a pigeon-infested tenement apartment in Hell's Kitchen and miraculously fix it up, creating a bohemian, patterned, glowing space, the...

STRAYED

Andr Techin's mesmerizing new film opens with a haunting musical refrain and black-and-white newsreel footage of World War II. In one sequence, a fallen horse is trampled by horses behind it; in another, soldiers march sullenly by; in a third, people flee the approaching German invasion of Paris....

FESTIVAL EXPRESS

Festival Express, a rock documentary of a 1970 traveling concert across Canada, sends you back in time. And if you happened to have come of age in the late '60s and early '70s, it's both thrilling to return, and almost unbearably poignant. One thing is certain: The music was phenomenal--and...

DE-LOVELY

Cole Porter said it best: It's delightful, it's delicious, it's De-Lovely! Irwin Winkler's musical valentine to Cole Porter and his genius sets just the right tone, a harmonious blend of intelligence and sentiment, intensified by a song score to sigh for and the best film performance of Kevin...