REVIEW: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps -- But You Just Might
Wall Street! The place where money never sleeps. Where greed is still good. Where the rich get rich and the poor get poorer. Where a penny saved is a penny earned. Where…
REVIEW: Rodrigo Cortés' Buried Amounts to a Pile of Cheap Manipulation
Rodrigo Cortés' Buried is a Twilight Zone episode for Mother Jones subscribers. Ryan Reynolds plays Paul Conroy, a U.S. contractor -- a truck driver working in Iraq -…
REVIEW: Gaspar Noé's Enter the Void Penetrates -- Just Not Deeply Enough
It's not every day that a director makes a movie that's both amazing and pointless, the kind of gimmicky shockeroo provocation that wows you even as it leaves you going…
REVIEW: Philip Seymour Hoffman's Jack Goes Boating Is Well-Crafted But Still Waterlogged
Jack Goes Boating, Philip Seymour Hoffman's first time out directing a feature film, is such a gentle picture that at times it threatens to drift off the screen. Hoffman…
One Last Toronto Roundup: Herzog in 3-D, Squabbling Comics and More
The last day of a festival stay is always a time of reckoning. You may have seen a lot. But how much did you miss? Running alongside the slate of pictures you actually…
3 Docs to Watch For: A Disgraced Governor, the Hot Bard of New Jersey and Steamy Mormon Sex
The problem with covering film festivals is that the things you have to see so often conflict with the things you want to see; bits of the latter have to be stuffed into…
Essential Killing: Dear Vincent Gallo, Why Do You Torment Me So?
Oh, Vincent Gallo! There's no escaping you. You follow me from continent to continent, from festival to festival. Last week, in Venice, I saw your strange little picture…
'Get It Up or I'll Cut It Off': A Meditation on the Cinematic Brilliance of Machete Maidens Unleashed!
A few days back, after a festival day that began with two-hours-plus of French people talking incessantly while hiding their secrets from one another (Guillaume Canet's…
Let Me In and the Hows and Whys of the Remake
When it was announced a few years back that a U.S. remake of the Swedish preteen-vampire film (and indie hit) Let the Right One In was in the works, fans of the original…
127 Hours: Danny Boyle, James Franco and the Little Tool That Could
If you've been living under a smallish, dislodged boulder for the past few months and want to be completely surprised by what happens in Danny Boyle's harrowing…
Philip Seymour Hoffman in Jack Goes Boating: A Definite Grooming 'Don't'
Philip Seymour Hoffman is one of my favorite contemporary actors, and he's perfectly charming in Jack Goes Boating, which is also his debut as a film director. Hoffman…
Postcard from Venice: Farewell to the Festival (and a Possible Golden Lion Winner)
This year the European press has complained bitterly about the quality of the films chosen first for Berlin, then for Cannes: The sense seemed to be that the selection…
REVIEW: Vanessa Paradis, Romain Duris Sparkle in Romcom-Done-Right Heartbreaker
American romantic comedies have become so dismal over the past 20 years that it wouldn't be hard for even the Romanian film industry to show us up. I'm still waiting for…
Postcard from Venice: Vincent Gallo Keeps His Promises, François Ozon Scores With Stars
It's a chilly, overcast day in Venice, and as I walk along the Lido down Lungomare Guglielmo Marconi, peering over the tall hedges that separate the street from the sea…
Postcard from Venice: Getting Folky With the Russians and Nostalgic with Martin Scorsese
As much as I love going to film festivals, there's one reason I sometimes feel out of place: Whenever I find myself in a circle of colleagues waxing euphoric about, say…
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