REVIEW: Strange Powers Takes On Myths, Methods and Music of Stephin Merritt and Magnetic Fields
A smart, sophisticated songsmith in the tradition of Cole Porter, or an inscrutable, pretentious twit? In the course of his near-20-year career, Stephin Merritt -- the…
REVIEW: Giallo Homage Amer Is a Slice of Cruel Beauty
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani's Amer is an homage to '70s giallo, a riff on erotic slasher-horror movies made by the likes of Mario "Twitch of the Death Nerve" Bava…
REVIEW: Paranormal Activity 2 Is More of the Same, and Less
Oren Peli's 2007 lo-fi horror megahit Paranormal Activity was a pleasing enough combination of clever and silly: A phony video document of a young couple's efforts to…
REVIEW: Wiseman's Boxing Gym Highlights One Small Corner of the Boxing World
If it's possible to make a completely gentle movie about boxing, Frederick Wiseman has done just that with Boxing Gym. This is hardly one of the world's -- or, for that…
REVIEW: My Dog Tulip Nears Animation Perfection
J.R. Ackerley's slim, beautifully observed memoir My Dog Tulip is often called one of the finest works about a dog ever written, though Truman Capote came closer when he…
REVIEW: Jackass 3D Is More of the Same -- And Still Hilarious
There really is no reason for Jackass 3D to be in 3-D. Then again, there really is no reason for Jackass 3D to even exist, since we probably don't need to see grown men…
REVIEW: Olivier Assayas' Carlos Paints a Brilliant Portrait of an International Celebuterrorist
It's a tricky feat, channeling the glamour of a famous international terrorist without glamorizing him. But damned if French filmmaker Olivier Assayas doesn't pull it…
REVIEW: Hereafter Ponders the Question, What Happens After We Die? Hint: It's Blurry
In Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks' "2,000-Year-Old Man" routine, the aged one reflects on a long-ago time when he and his fellow villagers worshiped a local guy named Phil…
REVIEW: Take My Soul! Please! Just Don't Make Me Watch My Soul to Take
For a movie that's being touted as Wes Craven's first 3-D feature, My Soul to Take ought to be a lot more fun than it is. The problem isn't just that Craven offers the…
REVIEW: Secretariat Spreads the Gospel of One Audacious Horse
Randall Wallace's Secretariat opens with a voice-over by the movie's star, Diane Lane, quoting from the Book of Job. If, like most sane people, you're inclined to flee…
REVIEW: Stephen Frears' Tamara Drewe Is a Bracing, Brainy Entertainment -- Until It Isn't
Most of Stephen Frears' Tamara Drewe is so breezily entertaining, and so bracingly clear-eyed about what total pains in the asses writers can be, that its final 15…
REVIEW: It's Kind of a Funny Story Is Funnier -- And More Compassionate -- Than You Might Think
We're not supposed to laugh at the mentally ill, which is why, at the movies, we sometimes just have to -- not out of fear that we too might someday turn out to "be that…
REVIEW: Warm, Passionate Let Me In Rescues Vampire Genre
In a pop-culture world that's coming dangerously close to vampire overload, the last thing we need is another picture about lovelorn bloodsuckers. But Matt Reeves' Let…
REVIEW: Kristin Scott Thomas Brings Everything She's Got to Leaving
Catherine Corsini's Leaving is a cheery little number that opens, and pretty much ends, with a shotgun blast. In between, Kristin Scott Thomas, as Suzanne, an affluent…
REVIEW: Social Network Brilliantly Explores the Facebook Frontier
By the time you read this, New Media -- including its tenacious, multi-tentacled offspring, Social Media -- as you knew it last year, last month or even yesterday, will…
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