[ theater ] Two Street by Tribe of Fools Attended: Fri., Sept. 5, 8 p.m.; closes Sept. 13 Ronnie and Jules are perfect together, except that they belong to rival Mummers brigades. We Think: It’s perhaps too easy to satirize the…

City Paper grade: B+ Victor (Celso Franco), the resourceful teenage hero of the Paraguayan action-suspense film 7 Boxes, wants a cell phone with a camera. He gets the opportunity to earn enough money to buy one — all he has…

City Paper grade: A- The Palestinian Oscar nominee for best foreign language film has the title character (Adam Bakri) climbing over the Israeli separation wall to visit his romantic interest Nadia (Leem Lubany), her brother Tarek (Iyad Hoorani) and his…

City Paper grade: B– For three years, first-time director Lotfy Nathan followed The 12 O’Clock Boys, a Baltimore dirt-bike gang known for its signature (and death-defying) riding position, in which the front wheel is lifted in the air until it points…

City Paper grade: D+ It’s wife or death for the cursed Jason (Brian Tee) in this ugly and shrill Korean-American rom-com. Jilted at the alter, Jason needs to get married before he turns 30, or, according to the family curse, he…

As the debate over healthcare reform rages on, this gripping documentary offers an essential view into the American system. Set at a public hospital in Oakland, California, The Waiting Room follows over-worked, under-supplied doctors and needy patients who wrongly rely…

A Philip Morris executive seeks to make a “safer” cigarette — one that will be more addictive and less harmful — so he hires a scientist named Victor DeNoble, who performs experiments to understand why molecules in the brain form…

Anyone who has seen Tommy Wiseau‘s directorial debut, The Room (screening tomorrow at Bryn Mawr Film Institute), can attest to his status in cult film culture. Sure, audiences may mock him and deride his film — along with his accent…

Asking the non-musical question, I Love Being Me, Don’t You?, Sandra Bernhard had her fans eating out of her hand at the Painted Bride Wednesday night. On the rainy evening, she delivered on her promise to “make it sunny and…