Catherine Keener

The World Is a Stage

Art imitates life imitating art in Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York.

Not to Be

Full of itself and not half as funny as it thinks it is, Hamlet 2 is simply tragic.

Support Group

The year's best characters

In The Soloist, Joe Wright turns Steve Lopez' Los Angeles Times series into schlock

The year's best characters

Wide Open Spaces

Sean Penn delivers a soulful road movie and refuses to define his subject

Repeat Offender

A second, slimmer Capote movie fails to improve on its predecessor

Lovely, Not Amazing

Four women struggle to face midlife in Friends With Money

Writes and Wrongs

In Capote, a murder leads to a masterpiece leads to an undoing

Cherry on Top

The 40-Year-Old Virgin gets a heart-on while telling wonderfully dirty jokes

Lost in Translation

All talk and little action, The Interpreter doesn't even make sense

Rose in Bloom

The daughter of a hippie recluse grows to see the world her own way

When He Was Cruel

Neil LaBute tries

to be nice but

comes off very savage

Nemesisters

Siblings battle neuroses and each other in Lovely & Amazing

Persistent Visions

This season's cinema demands attention

The Way They Were

Simpatico

The Golden Spike

Actor and rock video director Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich is an odd masterpiece. So why is Jonze scared of his own shadow?

Hellfire

Actor and rock video director Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich is an odd masterpiece. So why is Jonze scared of his own shadow?

But Not Out of Mind

Actor and rock video director Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich is an odd masterpiece. So why is Jonze scared of his own shadow?

A Couple of Clowns

Actor and rock video director Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich is an odd masterpiece. So why is Jonze scared of his own shadow?

Judd Apatow and Adam Sandler, together at last in Funny People

Actor and rock video director Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich is an odd masterpiece. So why is Jonze scared of his own shadow?

Jonze's Wild Things more like Mild Things

Actor and rock video director Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich is an odd masterpiece. So why is Jonze scared of his own shadow?

10 Things to Do This Weekend for Under $10

Wholphin screening Friday at ATA​Shake off the workday without shedding too many bills. Check out this week's picks for living cheaply without giving up your weekend dose of pop culture and pedal steel. Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo @ de Young (Fri.) The art produced on the streets ( ... More >>

Where the Wild Things Are

Wholphin screening Friday at ATA​Shake off the workday without shedding too many bills. Check out this week's picks for living cheaply without giving up your weekend dose of pop culture and pedal steel. Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo @ de Young (Fri.) The art produced on the streets ( ... More >>

Who Should Play Ruth Reichl in Garlic and Sapphires Flick?

Roberts (left) and Reichl: We totally see the resemblance.​Last Friday, the Los Angeles Times reported that Fox is making a movie based on Ruth Reichl's memoir Garlic and Sapphires. The film is "in active production," meaning fans of the legendary raven-coiffed ex-Gourmet editor can expect a r ... More >>

Liberal guilt's got soul in "Please Give"

Roberts (left) and Reichl: We totally see the resemblance.​Last Friday, the Los Angeles Times reported that Fox is making a movie based on Ruth Reichl's memoir Garlic and Sapphires. The film is "in active production," meaning fans of the legendary raven-coiffed ex-Gourmet editor can expect a r ... More >>

Please Give

Roberts (left) and Reichl: We totally see the resemblance.​Last Friday, the Los Angeles Times reported that Fox is making a movie based on Ruth Reichl's memoir Garlic and Sapphires. The film is "in active production," meaning fans of the legendary raven-coiffed ex-Gourmet editor can expect a r ... More >>

Films About What the Haves Have Not

Nicole Holofcener continues to mine her life — and life is complicated.

Cyrus

Momma's boys and Peter Pan complexes collide

Film Showtimes for the week of August 18-24, 2010

Momma's boys and Peter Pan complexes collide