Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess—a weird and unexpectedly profound new comedy opening this weekend at the Music Box—is deceptively basic filmmaking, hiding an ingenious narrative structure behind ...

A breakthrough—not just for indie writer-director Andrew Bujalski (Mutual Appreciation, Beeswax), but for American movie comedy—this zany, intellectually dense, and surprisingly chilling period piece ...

Since the 18th century, people have been fascinated by the idea of machines that could play chess against humans. With the advent of the digital electronic computer in the mid-20th century, that dream ...