Articles by Carina Chocano

All you need to know about “Pride and Glory,” which stars Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Noah Emmerich and Jon Voight as a family of cops, is contained within the first few scenes. Read more

“Synecdoche, New York,” screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s wildly ambitious directorial debut, recalls the Jorge Luis Borges story in which the imperial cartographers make a map of the empire so detailed and true-to-life that it takes on the exact dimensions of the territory and ends up covering it entirely. Read more

The clamped-down residents of the frozen Swedish suburb in which “Let the Right One In” takes place carry their alienation so staunchly, even cheerfully, that it comes as a surprise when they actually bleed. Read more

When the cousin of Southern-born, New York-based film critic Godfrey Cheshire decides to transplant their family plantation to a less trafficked location, Cheshire decides to document the move. Read more

I get why Dakota Fanning keeps getting offered these motherless waif roles in Southern-fried melodramas. Read more

Steven Sebring’s “Patti Smith: Dream of Life” is a dream of a movie; gauzy, free-associative and reverberant. Read more

It’s not until the last few minutes of “What Just Happened” that the film’s title is posed as a question, not by the protagonist but by his ex-wife. Read more

Some people feel most at home burrowing in the depths of other people’s pain, and Jason Ritter’s unnamed character in Marianna Palka’s “Good Dick” is clearly one of those people. Read more

In Fernando Meirelles’ land of the blind, the one-eyed man isn’t king – the morally degenerate opportunist is. Read more