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Traitor Traitor
Despite his reputation as that rarest of creatures, the Hollywood intellectual, new evidence suggests that Steve Martin reads — prepare... More>>
By CHUCK WILSON
Published: August 28, 2008
Elegy
It's May-December time again, and for an aging dude who scores one of the ripest young lovelies in cinema (Penelope Cruz), Ben Kingsley looks... More>>
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: August 28, 2008
Man on Wire Man on Wire
Part caper movie, part real-life superhero saga and entirely engrossing, James Marsh's documentary recounts in Rififi-like detail how a Parisian... More>>
By Jim Ridley
Published: August 21, 2008
Hamlet 2
Hamlet 2 debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January, where Focus Features bought it for $10 million, one more overpriced snow bunny sure to... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 21, 2008
The Last Mistress
Catherine Breillat hitches her wagon to the hottest of European stars, Asia Argento, in a highly entertaining adaptation of... More>>
By J Hoberman
Published: August 21, 2008
The Rocker
Directed by Peter Cattaneo, The Rocker is more or less the Pete Best story — the tale of a poor bastard who gets shitcanned right on the... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 21, 2008
The Edge of Heaven
Fatih Akin's The Edge of Heaven wears current events on its sleeve, feeling out the state of German-Turkish relations as the former Ottomans... More>>
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: August 21, 2008
Tropic Thunder Tropic Thunder
Early buzz out of Hollywood pegged Tropic Thunder, directed and co-written by star Ben Stiller, as the end-all and be-all of movie-biz parodies... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 14, 2008
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Leave it to Woody Allen to make a romantic comedy in which all the major players end up either single, homicidal or trapped in safe, boring... More>>
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: August 14, 2008
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
George Lucas, that greedy visionary, is now in the infomercial manufacturing business — the pitchman forever selling rehashed product to... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 14, 2008
Bottle Shock
Ham-fisted and half-assed, this story of the early days of California winemaking (circa 1976, the year "California defeated all Gaul," as Time... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 14, 2008
Brick Lane
Nazneen, a young woman from Bangladesh, is transplanted unwillingly to London and is estranged from her rural home, beloved sister and much older... More>>
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: August 14, 2008
Henry Poole Is Here
Diagnosed with an unspecified fatal disease, Henry Poole (Luke Wilson) retreats into the numbing sunshine of suburban Los Angeles, buying a... More>>
By Tim Grierson
Published: August 14, 2008
Pineapple Express Pineapple Express
On the surface, Pineapple Express offers precisely what it advertises: a roll-'em-up, smoke-'em-up, blow-'em-up bromantic comedy from the freaks... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 07, 2008
American Teen
Nanette Burstein, who made the entertaining Robert Evans documentary The Kid Stays in the Picture, spent a year hanging out with a handful of... More>>
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: August 07, 2008
Encounters at the End of the World
Werner Herzog has made a career documenting extreme landscapes and courting danger. Encounters at the End of the World chronicles his trip to... More>>
By J Hoberman
Published: August 07, 2008
Tell No One
François Cluzet simmers beautifully as a Paris pediatrician who, eight years after the brutal murder of his beloved wife... More>>
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: July 31, 2008
Bird's Nest: Herzog & de Meuron in China
Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, friends since kindergarten, want to build the stadium for this summer's Olympics in... More>>
By Scott Wilson
Published: July 31, 2008
Brideshead Revisited Brideshead Revisited
This movie adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's tale of England collapsing under the pressure of social change is much more fun than the 11-hour slog of... More>>
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: July 31, 2008
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
For this dreary sequel, Dragonheart director Rob Cohen replaces Stephen Sommers and edges out cheerful extravagance in favor of joyless... More>>
By Vadim Rizov
Published: July 31, 2008
The Singing Revolution
The title refers to the Estonian independence movement, incubated through the country's stifled years as a Soviet satellite, when the sole outlet... More>>
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: July 31, 2008
The Wackness
Writer-director Jonathan Levine's mix tape of clichés takes cuts from a dozen or more coming-of-age melodramas and sets them to the... More>>
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: July 31, 2008
Step Brothers Step Brothers
I haven't seen much at the movies in the past two years that has given me as much unbridled comic pleasure as the sight of Will Ferrell as the... More>>
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: July 24, 2008
Bigger, Stronger, Faster
My first boyfriend was a juicer. Steroids were the drug of choice at my high school, having washed into the Canadian suburbs in the early '90s on... More>>
By Michelle Orange
Published: July 24, 2008
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
A tightly wound bundle of everything and its opposite — an anti-authoritarian who ran for sheriff of Aspen, a peace-loving gun nut, an... More>>
By Jim Ridley
Published: July 17, 2008
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