REVIEW: Farewell, My Queen Moves Slowly, But It's Got Sensuousness on Its Side
Snoozy but sumptuous, Benoît Jacquot's quasi-historical drama Farewell, My Queen isn't going to set the world aflame: The…
Snoozy but sumptuous, Benoît Jacquot's quasi-historical drama Farewell, My Queen isn't going to set the world aflame: The…
Michael Winterbottom, one of the most fascinating and idiosyncratic filmmakers of our age, makes so many movies that some of them…
For the first three hours and 20 minutes, I was totally with Savages. During the middle two hours and 25 minutes, I was…
Comic-book movies can be many things — ridiculous, entertaining, stupendously dull - but very rarely are they erotic. I'm not…
If you've seen the red band trailer for Ted, in which Mark Wahlberg plays a grown man whose best friend is his talking teddy…
To say there's nothing on the contemporary movie landscape like Alex Kurtzman's People Like Us is to suggest that the picture is…
It's not every day you see a movie and ask yourself, "Why does this thing even exist?" But I'm truly puzzled by the existence of…
Pixar is at its best when it's making movies about rats working in restaurants and families of superheroes with not-so-super…
I was deeply saddened yesterday to hear of the death of Andrew Sarris, a passionate critic and elegant writer who didn't just…
Before last year's wistfully joyous Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen's movies had gotten so self-conscious and sour-spirited &mdash…
Watching a thriller requires a certain willingness to be a dupe. The whole idea is to give yourself over, and the ideal is to…
Many of us who were alive in the 1980s claimed not to listen to heavy metal or its almost indistinguishable twin, hard rock. But…
Jane Fonda shows up so infrequently in movies these days that it doesn't matter if they look potentially good or dismal: Even…
People with a strong sartorial sense know the difference between what's elegant and what's merely elaborate. It's not the same in…
Because it didn't screen for critics, and because of a water-main break in the only New York theater showing the film today, it…