REVIEW: Advances in Fairy-Tale Technology Finally Bring Rapunzel to Big Screen in Tangled
How do you solve a problem like Rapunzel? Cinematically, at least, she's one of the most neglected of the Grimm brothers' fairy-tale heroines; Disney-wise she's been…
REVIEW: Sally Hawkins Strikes in Semi-Rousing Made in Dagenham
A substantial slice of socio-history cut with plain yogurt and a glob of treacle, then pulse-puréed to a smooth, hyper-digestible consistency, Made in Dagenham tastes…
REVIEW: Isabelle Huppert Stares Down a Revolution in Claire Denis' White Material
As played by Isabelle Huppert in White Material, Claire Denis' grim, numinous postcard from post-colonial Africa, Maria Vial is an implacable, impossible force in the…
REVIEW: Lena Dunham's Tiny Furniture a Surprising, Startling Pleasure
"I'm writing 'young and gifted' in my autobiography," goes an old Sloan song. "I figured who would know better than me?" They're lyrics I found myself humming after…
REVIEW: Ondi Timoner's Cool It Showcases Skeptical Environmentalist
Positioned as a pragmatic antidote to the panic-attack tactics of prominent global warming docs, Cool It, as even its title suggests, implores the well-intentioned…
REVIEW: TV Thwarts the Commies in Disco and Atomic War
Only a month ago, to mark the 65th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea, North Korea fired up its first Web site. Notoriously prohibitive of…
REVIEW: Watts and Penn Shine in Provocative If Uneven Fair Game
If casting is half the battle, then Fair Game director Doug Liman was already three-quarters of the way home when he signed Naomi Watts to play former CIA agent Valerie…
Trailer: Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman Try for Sex with No Strings Attached
Ah, the friends with benefits arrangement! You could map Hollywood's version of it out on a chart. First there's the initial bliss, like the couple has mastered a trick…
REVIEW: Heavy-Handed For Colored Girls Can't Sink Its Actresses
More surprising than the fact that For Colored Girls, Tyler Perry's deliriously lush, regrettably swollen adaptation of Ntozake Shange's 1970's Broadway phenomenon…
REVIEW: Outside the Law a Sketchy Portrait of Brothers in Terror
A companion film to Days of Glory, Rachid Bouchareb's 2006 feature about Algerian soldiers who fought for France in World War II, Outside the Law is another historical…
REVIEW: Alex Gibney's Client 9 Charts Eliot Spitzer's Ups and Downs, with Mixed Results
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer is another in a growing line of documentary audits of the run-up to New York's annus horribilis, and the second offered by…
REVIEW: Waste Land Tracks an Artist Who Turns Trash -- and Trashpickers -- into Art
Midway through Waste Land, Lucy Walker's tightrope inquiry into the confluence of art, altruism and exploitation, Brazilian artist Vik Muniz notes that his hometown of…
REVIEW: Despite Bill Nighy and Emily Blunt, Wild Target More Mild Than Wild
Apparently, distinguished actors getting their gun-toting genre jollies is all the rage this fall. A British companion piece to the recent Red, Wild Target stars Bill…
REVIEW: Microbudget Creatures Don't Disappoint in Monsters
So what would an alien invasion film directed by Terrence Malick look like? It initially seems like Monsters, the elliptical, no-bucks debut of British…
REVIEW: Newcomer Jessica Chastain Dazzles in Uneven Jolene
Part mythical creature, part Dolly Parton monolith, the title character of Jolene never emerges from the figurative, or otherwise manages to be fully one thing. Literary…
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