Desplechin's A Christmas Tale is the gift this season needs.
By J. Hoberman
Wednesday, November 19
Arnaud Desplechin is a cinema maximalist: A Christmas Tale feels like all 12 days of seasonal merriment and then some. This comic, ultimately... More >>
Tom Gustafson's queer-centric take on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream teeters between banal conceptualizing and inspired execution. When... More >>
Artists' Television Access. Poison: Todd Haynes film. Presentation of the Revival House Queer Cinema. Wed., Nov. 19, 8 p.m. $6. Open Screening:... More >>
Marc Forster has a license to confuse and bore in Quantum of Solace.
By Robert Wilonsky
Wednesday, November 12
Those of us who adored Casino Royale, the 2006 reboot of the haggard, self-parodic James Bond franchise, had some trouble trying to decide where... More >>
Bollywood meets Hollywood in Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire.
By Scott Foundas
Wednesday, November 12
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Well, who wouldn't in this economy, even if the currency in question is rupees and winning the loot means being... More >>
JCVD wastes little time working itself into a pretzel. The action begins under the credits with Jean-Claude Van Damme working his way through a... More >>
Artists' Television Access. La Osa Mayor Menos Dos: Documentary by David Reznak about a Spanish mental hospital. Thu., Nov. 13, 8 p.m. free.... More >>
Art imitates life imitating art in Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York.
By Scott Foundas
Wednesday, November 05
If you traveled the length of John Malkovich's medulla oblongata, hung a sharp left at the desk where Beckett's Krapp recorded his last tape, and... More >>
Movie cults are born, not made. A youthful audience discovered Donnie Darko on its own, even as another demographic transformed The Sound of... More >>
Role Models is smarter and bawdier than your average boys-to-men movie.
By Robert Wilonsky
Wednesday, November 05
Paul Rudd wears the constant look of glazed-eye amusement; everything seems to tickle him, even that which annoys or frustrates or disappoints... More >>
Soul Men pays fitting tribute to the late Bernie Mac.
By Chuck Wilson
Wednesday, November 05
If the dream of every comic is to have his humor live on long after he's left the stage, then the late Bernie Mac has exited this world on a high... More >>
The zany incomprehensibility of the title should serve as fair warning of the quirkfest to come in neophyte filmmaker Manish Acharya's Loins of... More >>
Castro Theatre. The Nanny and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?: Part of the Bette Davis Centennial. Wed., Nov. 5, 2:30 p.m. The Leopard: Luchino... More >>
Kevin Smith blows his wad with Zack and Miri Make a Porno.
By Robert Wilonsky
Wednesday, October 29
Ostensibly, Zack and Miri Make a Porno should be money-shot Kevin Smith: Pals make porn to pay the bills and, in the process of gettin' it on for... More >>