The battle over a Philadelphia art collection — as culture, money, and power collide — in The Art of the Steal.
By Melissa Anderson,
March 10, 2010
Henri Matisse called the Barnes Foundation "the only sane place to see art in America." But the clamor over moving one of the world's foremost... More>>
All that remains of Antoine Fuqua's Training Day is Denzel Washington's Oscar-winning performance, his baddest and best. The rest of the movie? A... More>>
After a protracted, numbing awards season, this Sunday's Oscar broadcast promises the drama of two ex-spouses battling for Best Picture and Best... More>>
Tim Burton's Wonderland is not nearly curiouser and curiouser enough.
By J. Hoberman,
March 03, 2010
Walt Disney mulled an adaptation of Alice in Wonderland for decades before producing an animated feature in 1951, although by all accounts, he... More>>
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Artists' Television Access. Cinemas, Heaviness: Other Cinema's experimental rarities. Sat., March... More>>
Cop Out establishes its movie lineage right away, with a slow-motion toe-to-head tilt up, set to the Beastie Boys' "No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn," of... More>>
Now a 305-minute triptych film, Red Riding originated in the novels of Ossett-bred David Peace, written in Tokyo and published between 1999 and... More>>
Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, a florid art shocker Paramount welcomed into the world with the strained enthusiasm of a mutant baby's parents,... More>>
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Castro Theatre. The Meaning of Life and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: Terry Gilliam double... More>>
In Pretty Woman, director Garry Marshall's personal cinematic high score, the opening credits close (and the closing credits open) with the voice... More>>
As personal assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to France, James Reese (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) can keep himself in well-tailored suits and keep his... More>>
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Artists' Television Access. "Return from Gaza... More>>
"Did you shoot my daughtah?" is the question posed, in flat-voweled Bostonian, in the trailer for Edge of Darkness. And Mel Gibson, much-bereaved... More>>
Katie Jarvis, who makes her acting debut as a rabid teenager in writer-director Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank, was discovered on an English railway... More>>
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Artists' Television Access. The Invisible Forest: Film by Antero Alli. Fri., Jan. 29, 8 p.m. $6.... More>>
Extraordinary Measures is a race-against-time thriller in which a desperate dad (Brendan Fraser) sacrifices everything to cure a rare disease... More>>
The White Ribbon is Michael Haneke's first German-language film since the original Funny Games (1997) and, addressing what used to be called "the... More>>
Detective stories imply that mysteries can be solved, or at least rationally explained. Even the most debased example is a secular article of... More>>
The Green Zone: Mission finally accomplished
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March 10, 2010
Barnes and Ignobles 
A sleepy follow-up to Training Day, Brooklyn's Finest cops out
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March 03, 2010
Jacques Audiard, the "French Scorsese," arrives stateside with A Prophet
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March 03, 2010
Oscar Wild: The Academy Awards bring the crazy
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March 03, 2010
Alice in Chains 
Kevin Smith's Cop Out: So crazy, it just might work
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February 24, 2010
Four books, three films, and one very rotten Yorkshire in Red Riding
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February 24, 2010
Scorsese's head-trip Shutter Island is the good kind of insane
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February 17, 2010
Valentine's Day: So many stars, so many story lines
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February 10, 2010
From Paris with Love, John Travolta's cowboy diplomacy
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February 03, 2010
Edge of Darkness: Mel Gibson gets some kind of revenge
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January 27, 2010
Fish Tank: Fifteen and pissed
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January 27, 2010
Creation casts light on Darwin the scientist, and Darwin the man
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January 20, 2010
Extraordinary Measures: Harrison Ford is nothing if not useful
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January 20, 2010
History repeats: Certainty at the end of The White Ribbon's unsolved mystery — and a sure hand behind it
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January 13, 2010
Watching the detective in Police, Adjective
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January 13, 2010
