Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Summer of Salvation

The film snob's guide to the best cinema the season has to offer.

Arthouse movie listings for March 18-24, 2009

The film snob's guide to the best cinema the season has to offer.

Doubt

The film snob's guide to the best cinema the season has to offer.

Driver's Eddie

As Happy-Go-Lucky's angry road instructor, character actor Eddie Marsan enters the fast lane.

One-Scene Wonder

In Doubt, Viola Davis once again proves that there are no small parts.

All That Show Must Go On

In Doubt, Viola Davis once again proves that there are no small parts.

Our critics name the best films of 2008

In Doubt, Viola Davis once again proves that there are no small parts.

Risky Business

Tom Cruise plots to kill Hitler in his latest impossible mission.

J'Accuse!

Doubt wags the finger of moral relativism.

I Think I'm Getting a Kauf

Doubt wags the finger of moral relativism.

The World Is a Stage

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

On Comics: 'Dark Knight' is a 'Thunderbolt,' or Something

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

Presenting the only Cannes awards that really matter: Ours.

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

Art House

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

Support Group

The year's best characters

Savage Love

Testing the limits of familial bonds, one nursing-home application at a time

Moolah for Mullahs

All aboard the '80s way-back machine for Mike Nichols' good-time Charlie

The Music Men

Halfway through Sundance, and still whistling a happy tune

When the Stars Came Out

Halfway through Sundance, and still whistling a happy tune

Impossibly Passable

Halfway through Sundance, and still whistling a happy tune

Repeat Offender

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

All-Day Suckers

Sedaris and Colbert peddle Candy not everybody wants

Get Inside!

Your forecast of the summer's top movies

Quiet Is the New Loud

Have a blast dialing down entertainment options this year

Hello, He's Not Johnny Cash

Walk the Line never strays from the dull telling of a tall tale

Writes and Wrongs

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

Listen to the Movie

Almost Famous rings in your ears -- and heart -- long after it's over

The Not-So-Magnificent Anderson

Magnolia

Un-Happiness

Magnolia