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In Theaters: Whip It

Who knew what to expect from Drew Barrymore after He's Just Not That Into You, a feminist snuff flick released earlier this year that Barrymore executive produced and in…

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

In Theaters: Bright Star

In Bright Star, Jane Campion conjures a nineteenth century world into which many of us would happily slip: people behave beautifully, dress carefully, spend afternoons…

Thursday, September 24, 2009

In Theaters: Capitalism: A Love Story

[Editor's Note: Please welcome Michelle Orange, a former Movieline guest film critic turned staff critic today. She'll be contributing two in-depth reviews per week.]No…

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

In Theaters: The Time Traveler's Wife

Movie audiences are strange beasts: pliable on principle, we will suspend disbelief on the briefest of pretenses. We will pay handsomely, in fact, to accept a world of…

Friday, August 14, 2009

In Theaters: The Cove

The mysteries at play in The Cove, Louie Psihoyos's troubling, gripping activist documentary, begin at the surface and then, like the dolphin pods the film shows zooming…

Thursday, July 30, 2009

In Theaters: Funny People

That there is an evolution to be traced in Judd Apatow's directorial career is impressive in itself, given that we're only now on his third feature. His ambitions to…

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

In Theaters: Adam

From its promise of an instructive, girl-meets-unlikely-boy tale of wonder to the astronaut suit antics, twinkly, hipster-uplift soundtrack, and deadly Forrest Gump…

Monday, July 27, 2009