In Theaters: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Somewhere in the middle of Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, police lieutenant Terence McDonagh (Nicolas Cage) bets on New Orleans and loses…
In Theaters: Broken Embraces
Sealed somewhere inside the careful thematic scaffolding and deliberate, searching narrative excavation of Pedro Almodovar's 25th film is a more creaturely pulse. Its…
In Theaters: Pirate Radio
One of my favorite personal interview outtakes involves Rob Zombie casually mentioning, by way of illustrating his point that a good film crosses all boundaries, that he…
In Theaters: Fantastic Mr. Fox
There's something defiant in the charms of Fantastic Mr. Fox, a nose-thumbing mischief that underlies and yet is of a piece with the film's conspiratorial cheer…
In Theaters: The Box
Based on Richard Matheson's short story "Button, Button," the same way neon Velcro tear-away pants are "based on" button-fly jeans, The Box does little more than nick…
In Theaters: Precious
There were women in the screening I attended for Precious, Lee Daniels's erratic, commanding look at the life of an abused teenager living in 1987 Harlem, who could not…
In Theaters: This Is It
So, here we are. Four months after his sudden death, the concert series that would have been about to begin its second leg in London takes the form of a different kind…
In Theaters: The House of the Devil
Satan's back, y'all, but only sort of. Relatively dormant since his '70s horror heyday, in recent films like Antichrist and Jennifer's Body, Satan has been invoked, but…
In Theaters: Amelia
Every scene in Amelia, Mira Nair's gooey biopic of record-setting female pilot Amelia Earhart, is glazed with a kind of Cheez Whiz glow. The actors, the airplanes, and…
In Theaters: Antichrist
The films of Lars von Trier, the brilliant, bellicose Danish director of The Idiots, Breaking the Waves and Dogville, aspires to the condition of exquisite, immersive…
In Theaters: Law Abiding Citizen
You get one darling exchange between Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) and his young daughter before all bloody hell breaks loose in Law Abiding Citizen, a vicious thriller…
In Theaters: Where the Wild Things Are
The opening scenes of Where the Wild Things Are capture a very specific moment in childhood anomie. It's a barely post-70's, post-divorce, snowflake sweater moment that…
In Theaters: An Education
The opening sequence of An Education, Lone Scherfig's classic if largely unremarkable coming-of-age story, features familiar images of uniformed schoolgirls being put…
In Theaters: Good Hair
Chris Rock's Good Hair, a documentary about the pernicious extra- and intra-cultural ideas that have sprung up around the care and presentation of black women's hair…
In Theaters: A Serious Man
I'm going to take the advice of Rashi, the medieval French Rabbi whose epigram opens A Serious Man, and receive with simplicity everything that happens to me -- which in…
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