Lars von Trier, that self-appointed specialist in the nuances of American culture, is up to his old tricks in "Dear Wendy." Despite having been directed by his Dogme partner Thomas Vinterberg, this ...

Two new releases are defined by an inability to fathom another culture—Reel Paradise, a U.S. documentary about an American spending a year in the South Pacific with his family, and Dear Wendy, a ...

Something always seems to be awry in a portrait of the industrial town in depictions of rural America. If the sheriff's not a crook or the doctor's not a crank, then at least the impoverished ...

American teens in a depressed mining town form a secret club based on the twin tenets of pacifism and gun ownership; predictably, they wind up in a shootout with police. This Danish allegory (in ...