In the wake of eye-opening exposés like Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation and Slow Food movement hero Michael Pollan’s thoughtful study The Omnivore’s Dilemma, director Robert Kenner explores America’s industrial food chain in Food, Inc. Kenner tracks the flaws of large-scale chicken and cattle production, among other facets of the industry, and celebrates the virtues of small organic farms and educated consumerism. Much of the personal testimony is harrowing (a mother who lobbies on behalf of her young son who died from E. coli poisoning), and occasionally it’s inspiring (hardcore …

Something of a surprise from the director of the Korean cult classic Oldboy, Park Chan-wook’s Thirst is, like all vampire movies, a really screwed-up love story, and like Park best-loved films, a sometimes hyper-violent meditation on guilt, suffering and vengeance. A saintly priest (The Host’s Song Kang-ho) offers himself as a test subject for a vaccine meant to cure a virus that causes a deadly leprosy. Things go badly, but the dying cleric is miraculously healed by a blood transfusion that profoundly alters his own biology. Much to his …