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Hearts and Minds
Nick Broomfield and his actors use both in this sympathetic re-creation of the Haditha massacre.
Nick Broomfield, known for his unseemly documentary portraits of Aileen Wuornos, Heidi Fleiss,... More >>
By Anthony Kaufman
Published: May 14, 2008
Prince (Less) Charming
Facing Indy at the box office, Narnia sequel ups the action and loses some magic
Things never happen the same way twice." Thus boometh Aslan the lion (Liam Neeson), alias the... More >>
By Ella Taylor
Published: May 14, 2008
Floating Life
Hou Hsiao-hsien and his red balloon watch over a lonely mother and son in this soaring Flight.
About a thousand movies ago, I made the truculent, unprovable assertion that if Chinese... More >>
By J. Hoberman
Published: May 14, 2008
Before the Rains
British plantation owner and colonialist extraordinaire Henry Moores (Linus Roache) fancies... More >>
By Julia Wallace
Published: May 14, 2008
Art House
Artists' Television Access. OpenScreening: "Against Interpretation": Local abstract film and... More >>
Compiled By Hiya Swanhuyser and Michael Leaverton
Published: May 14, 2008
Fast Track to Nowhere
It's anime on overdrive in the Wachowski brothers' souped-up, tricked-out Speed Racer.
Converting a fondly remembered cartoon series — one of the first Japanese animes... More >>
By J. Hoberman
Published: May 7, 2008
New Blood
The joys of DIY filmmaking persist in Son of Rambow.
No adult has ever been able to codify what separates a good movie from a classic. In kid terms,... More >>
By Jim Ridley
Published: May 7, 2008
Get Out of Jail Free
Errol Morris cuts the Abu Ghraib MPs some slack in Standard Operating Procedure.
It's been 20 years since Errol Morris made The Thin Blue Line , a found "noir" that served to... More >>
By J. Hoberman
Published: May 7, 2008
Summer Grows Up
The season of big budget bangs uses its brain
Explosions, pratfalls, and robots; heroes, aliens, and blondes — it must be summertime at... More >>
By Chuck Wilson
Published: May 7, 2008
The Favor
As an unconscious parody of everything that's wrong with Indiewood, Eva Aridjis' The Favor is... More >>
By Vadim Rizov
Published: May 7, 2008
Art House
Artists' Television Access. Hecho en Los Angeles (Made in L.A.) : Almudena Carracedo and... More >>
Compiled By Hiya Swanhuyser and Michael Leaverton
Published: May 7, 2008
Mighty Avenger
Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man is a thing to marvel.
Chalk it up to personal preference, but I've always been fonder of those comic-book heroes who... More >>
By Scott Foundas
Published: April 30, 2008
Here Comes the Bride. Yawn.
McDreamy tries to win over his engaged gal pal in My Best Friend's Made of Honor Wedding.
In Made of Honor , Patrick Dempsey plays a conveniently rich and willfully single serial... More >>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: April 30, 2008
Mamet's new film, Redbelt, showing at the SF International Film Fest
David Mamet's Redbelt is a tricky bar brawl — call it Roundhouse of Games . The... More >>
By J. Hoberman
Published: April 30, 2008
Dark Matter
Opens Friday at the Lumiere.
Inspired by" the 1991 University of Iowa school shootings, Dark Matter gives a sympathetic... More >>
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: April 30, 2008
Art House
Artists' Television Access. "Civic Life": Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy are the Desperate... More >>
Compiled By Hiya Swanhuyser and Michael Leaverton
Published: April 30, 2008
Baby Mama Needs a Diaper Change
Could have sworn I've seen this episode of Baby Mama before — like, sometime in January... More >>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: April 23, 2008
Let's Go to Prison
Harold and Kumar get shipped to Gitmo in this forced act two.
Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg wrote Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle with the novel... More >>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: April 23, 2008
Absurdistan
The next wave of post-9/11 political films trades sobriety for satire.
Earnest, sad, and righteous, they are not. More inspired by M*A*S*H or Dr. Strangelove than... More >>
By Anthony Kaufman
Published: April 23, 2008
The Life Before Her Eyes
Riddled with high concept, this florid adaptation of Laura Kasischke's 2002 novel is a horror... More >>
By Ella Taylor
Published: April 23, 2008
Arthouse
Artists' Television Access. "Ghost in the Reel Change": Live music with vintage shorts and... More >>
Published: April 23, 2008
Countdown to ... Murder!
Ridiculous Al Pacino stars in ridiculous running-down-the-clock thriller 88 Minutes.
Jon Avnet's cheesy new thriller, 88 Minutes , is 105 minutes long. Going in, I feared that 100... More >>
By Ella Taylor
Published: April 16, 2008
Unwelcome Visitor
Tom McCarthy's preachy liberal guilt dwarfs any good intentions.
Stop me if you've heard this one before: A lonely dwarf, a wisecracking Cuban American, and a... More >>
By Scott Foundas
Published: April 16, 2008
American Pie
Wong Kar-Wai's first English-language foray is a minor confection.
Watching Marilyn Monroe in Cinemascope, a critic once wrote, is "like being smothered in baked... More >>
By Michelle Orange
Published: April 16, 2008
Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World
Leaving no gimmick unturned, that Super Size Me guy goes searching for Public Enemy No. 1.
Morgan Spurlock, the daredevil documentarian who lived on Big Macs for a month and turned this... More >>
By J. Hoberman
Published: April 16, 2008
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