Jon Frosch

"The way to a man's heart is through his stomach" runs the old cliché and the rather uninspired starting point for The Lunchbox, a slow-building, pleasingly low-key romantic dramedy set in Mumbai. Making his feature-length debut as writer and director, Ritesh Batra throws some emotional and logistical complications at the...

An ostensibly feel-good French-Canadian comedy about artificial insemination gone awry, Ken Scott's Starbuck mainly makes you feel like taking a shower. The protagonist is a hapless forty-year-old Montreal bachelor named David (Patrick Huard, resembling a younger, hunkier Daniel Auteuil, without the wild-eyed intensity), whose life is turned upside down when...

With his fluttery falsetto and haughty gaze, Ruben, the flamboyantly gay, ambivalently Jewish twenty-something hero of the new French comedy Let My People Go!, is the kind of big-screen character usually relegated to the sidelines. It's refreshing to see him front and center, gamely played by Nicolas Maury, gangly limbs...