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Australia Australia
Like a musical minus the music, or every other melodrama you've ever seen
You don't have to have been raised on colonial Brit Lit, classic melodramas, Westerns or war movies, or Gone With the Wind to figure out the... More>>
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: November 27, 2008
Milk Milk
Gus Van Sant delivers a timely reminder about intolerance
Gus Van Sant has never been what you'd call a risk-averse filmmaker, but he directs his Harvey Milk biopic so carefully there might be a Ming... More>>
By J. HOBERMAN
Published: November 27, 2008
Slumdog Millionaire, A Feel-Good Movie That Actually Works Slumdog Millionaire, A Feel-Good Movie That Actually Works
Bollywood meets Hollywood in Danny Boyle's new film
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Well, who wouldn't in this economy, even if the currency in question is rupees and winning the loot means being... More>>
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: November 20, 2008
Bolt Bolt
Disney's latest toon is a starry dog story
With his blazing white coat and pig-pink ears, to say nothing of the zigzag of lightning cut into his flank, the eponymous canine lead of... More>>
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: November 20, 2008
Holiday Feast, Extra Stuffing
Desplechin's A Christmas Tale is the gift this season needs
Arnaud Desplechin is a cinema maximalist: A Christmas Tale feels like all 12 days of seasonal merriment, and then some. This comic, ultimately... More>>
By J. HOBERMAN
Published: November 20, 2008
Being Jean-Claude Van Damme
The Mussels From Brussels gets emotional in JCVD
Shown in the market last May at Cannes, Jean-Claude Van Damme's JCVD garnered a surprise critical cult. Audiences, midnight or otherwise, may... More>>
By J. HOBERMAN
Published: November 20, 2008
Quantum of Solace Quantum of Solace
More lead than gold, Bond's latest gets the finger
Those of us who adored Casino Royale, the 2006 reboot of the haggard, self-parodic James Bond franchise, had some trouble trying to decide where... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: November 13, 2008
I’ve Loved You So Long I’ve Loved You So Long
A chick flick about child murder. Mom would love it.
I've Loved You So Long Kristin Scott Thomas has gotten so locked into playing tragic victims or frigid grandes dames that few remember the... More>>
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: November 13, 2008
Role Models is Smarter and Bawdier Than Your Average Boys-to-Men Movie Role Models is Smarter and Bawdier Than Your Average Boys-to-Men Movie
Paul Rudd wears the constant look of glazed-eye amusement; everything seems to tickle him, even that which annoys or frustrates or disappoints... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: November 06, 2008
Synecdoche, New York Synecdoche, New York
Art imitates life imitating art in Charlie Kaufman's latest
If you traveled the length of John Malkovich's medulla oblongata, hung a sharp left at the desk where Beckett's Krapp recorded his last tape and... More>>
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: November 06, 2008
The Other Sister The Other Sister
Anne Hathaway makes a compelling bad girl in Jonathan Demme’s pedestrian family drama
Those who believe that Jonathan Demme went all soft with Philadelphia and never recovered may not be reassured by his latest movie, an ensemble... More>>
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: November 06, 2008
Kevin Smith Blows his Wad with Zack and Miri Make a Porno Kevin Smith Blows his Wad with Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Ostensibly, Zack and Miri Make a Porno should be money-shot Kevin Smith: Pals make a porn to pay the bills and, in the process of gettin' it on... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: October 30, 2008
Charlie Kaufman Embraces Synecdoche Charlie Kaufman Embraces Synecdoche
There will be no more polarizing film released in 2008 than Synecdoche, New York, the directorial debut of Oscar-winning screenwriter and... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: October 30, 2008
Changeling Changeling
Angelina Jolie takes on a serial killer and the system in Clint Eastwood's latest
On a double bill with L.A. Confidential, Chinatown or just about any film made after 1970 about institutional corruption in Los Angeles, Clint... More>>
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: October 23, 2008
Pride and Glory Pride and Glory
New York cop drama holds the audience hostage
Pride and Glory doesn't make any effort to disguise precisely what it is: a barely-held-together string of vignettes lifted from every cop movie... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: October 23, 2008
W. Reminds Us of What We'd Rather Forget W. Reminds Us of What We'd Rather Forget
Oliver Stone assigns motive to Dubya's m.o., but at this point, who cares?
W. may be less frenzied than the usual Oliver Stone sensory bombardment, but in revisiting the early '00s by way of the late '60s, this... More>>
J. HOBERMAN
Published: October 16, 2008
The Secret Life of Bees is All Honey, No Sting The Secret Life of Bees is All Honey, No Sting
A young woman fights off her brutal husband; a gun goes off; a marble spins on the floor where a toddler sits unattended. From B-movie... More>>
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: October 16, 2008
Body of Lies follows the fight against terror into cyberspace Body of Lies follows the fight against terror into cyberspace
Ridley Scott's latest is the post-9/11, tech-savvy thriller we deserve
A new kind of war movie for a new kind of war, Body of Lies is about the War on Terror as it is being waged on the ground, in the air, but most... More>>
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: October 09, 2008
Happy-Go-Lucky gives you something to smile about Happy-Go-Lucky gives you something to smile about
The protag of Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky is a modestly gaudy people's heroine industriously repairing the social world, one frayed interaction... More>>
By J. HOBERMAN
Published: October 09, 2008
Blindness blurs the line between bleak and sappy Blindness blurs the line between bleak and sappy
The most recent example of bleak chic, Fernando Meirelles' mostly harrowing adaptation of José Saramago's international best seller... More>>
By Anthony Kaufman
Published: October 02, 2008
How to Lose Friends and Nick and Norah: Double Your Disappointment How to Lose Friends and Nick and Norah: Double Your Disappointment
Two mediocre adaptations by two directors who really should have known better
There are copious ways to link How to Lose Friends and Alienate People and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. Both are based on feather-light... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: October 02, 2008
Choke Choke
Palahniuk adaptation needs the Heimlich
There's a whole lotta fucking going on in Choke, Clark Gregg's adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's first-person novel about a sex addict named Victor... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: September 25, 2008
Miracle at Santa Anna Miracle at Santa Anna
No matter the runtime and budget, Spike Lee's World War II drama is an epic bore
On some level, you've got to hand it to Spike Lee. There is probably less than a handful of directors working in Hollywood today who could put... More>>
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: September 25, 2008
Your Friends & Neighbors Your Friends & Neighbors
Racial tension, above and below the surface, in Neil LaBute's Lakeview Terrace
Earlier this year, when I found myself assigned to jury duty on a drug-related trial at the Los Angeles Superior Court, our jury foreman turned... More>>
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: September 18, 2008
Ricky Gervais Sees Dead People Ricky Gervais Sees Dead People
And they bring him to life in Ghost Town
It takes a good while for Ricky Gervais to warm up in Ghost Town; it takes even longer for the audience to warm to Ricky Gervais. During the... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: September 18, 2008
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