Film:
Larger-than-life Gatsby glitters, just may be gold
By Jenn Ladd
5/22/2013
Film:
Kon-Tiki
Directed by Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg
Now Playing at the Charles Theatre
Every based-on-a-true-story movie has that goofy scene where the hero gets a glazed look in their eyes
By Brandon Soderberg
5/22/2013
Film:
The third Iron Man movie is better than the second one but not as good as The Avengers
By Joe MacLeod
5/8/2013
Film:
The talent of the cast astounds, their capacity for improvisation seemingly never-ending.
By Jenn Ladd
5/8/2013
Film:
A Baltimorean tells the story of Journey’s new frontman
By John Barry
5/1/2013
Film:
For over 20 years, Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher have made a career out collecting VHS tapes from thrift stores, garage sales, and dumpsters.
By Courtney Cousins
5/1/2013
Film:
A City Paper roundup of what’s playing this week
4/24/2013
Film:
A bevy of Hollywood’s aging elite star in Robert Redford’s latest
By Jenn Ladd
4/17/2013
Film:
One gay couple, eight wedding ceremonies
By Courtney Cousins
4/17/2013
Film:
The Place Beyond the Pines
Directed by Derek Cianfrance
Now playing
Wow, this is not an easy movie, but what a great movie, and what a novelty.
By Joe MacLeod
4/17/2013
Film:
If Terrence Malick directed a soap opera, it just might look like this
By Bret McCabe
4/10/2013
Film:
Directed by David Lynch
Playing at the Charles Theatre April 13, 15, and 18.
When Mulholland Drive first opened in 2001, I was teaching intro to philosophy at a university and I offered my impressionable young students extra credit for seeing it. A few
By Baynard Woods
4/10/2013
Film:
A City Paper roundup of what’s playing this week
4/3/2013
Film:
Walter Salles’ adaptation of the classic novel is as exciting as a long, traffic-clogged drive between Baltimore and Richmond
By Baynard Woods
3/27/2013
Film:
A cross between a romance and a psychological thriller.
By Jenn Ladd
3/27/2013
Film:
Scottish celebrity meets a Baltimorean
By Joe MacLeod
3/20/2013
Film:
Every few years, Hollywood rolls out an Action Movie that tries to maim, kill, or otherwise harm The President of The United States of America.
By Joe MacLeod
3/20/2013
Film:
Mia Wasikowska stars in South Korean auteur’s suspenseful English-language debut
By Jenn Ladd
3/13/2013
Film:
Slabs of broken stone lie in tumble-down piles as muted screams ebb and surge.
By Lee Gardner
3/13/2013
Film:
Creative Alliance screens Indian activist documentary for International Women’s Day
By Alexa Kwiatkoski
3/6/2013
Film:
Explore the toll taken on the lives of German citizens who had supported the war effort
By Elias DuBose
3/6/2013
Film:
The dealings of Israel’s Shin Bet explored in new documentary
By Andrew Zaleski
3/6/2013
Film:
A documentary about Baltimore’s notorious urban dirt bike riders.
By Baynard Woods
3/6/2013
Film:
Johnny Depp stars in Jim Jarmusch’s psychedelic, cameo-packed Western
By Jenn Ladd
2/27/2013
Film:
21 AND OVER From the directors of The Hangover comes another exploration of intoxication—and this one is for the kids. An Asian-American college student turns 21, gets plastered, pals around with some buddies, falls out a window, plays beer pong, dr
2/27/2013
Film:
An unlikely gay couple strive for acceptance in late 1970s West Hollywood.
By Elias DuBose
2/20/2013
Film:
Bruce Willis, America’s posterboy for male-pattern baldness,
By Joe MacLeod
2/20/2013
Film:
Special effects get the better of a supernatural-teen romance
By Jeff Meyers
2/20/2013
Film:
What happens when sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll collide with religion
By Jenn Ladd
2/13/2013
Film:
Cancer
Directed by Jon Bevers
At School 33 through March 9
There is a surreal golden hue to much of Jon Bevers’ short film Cancer, now playing in a loop at School 33.
By Baynard Woods
2/13/2013
Film:
Art is a 24/7 way of life.
By Baynard Woods
2/6/2013
Film:
Filmmaker explores the strained relationship with his father in an experimental documentary
By Bret McCabe
2/6/2013
Film:
Matt Porterfield premieres new film at festival
By Damien Ober
1/30/2013
Film:
Here’s why the movie is amazing.
By Brandon Weigel
1/30/2013
Film:
“Oh, no. Everything else is sold out.”
By Jenn Ladd
1/23/2013
Film:
A married couple’s love faces its final test
By Lee Gardner
1/23/2013
Film:
On finding happiness with someone less-than-ideal
By Jenn Ladd
1/16/2013
Film:
New Burns’ documentary looks at the wrongful conviction of five teens
By Jenn Ladd
1/9/2013
Film:
A well-controlled and surprisingly not-depressing story about real life behind the music.
By Joe MacLeod
1/9/2013
Film:
The first take on Thomas Harris’ novel dwells on emotional drama
By Jenn Ladd
1/2/2013
Film:
What FDR was really up to during his presidency—or not
By Jenn Ladd
12/26/2012
Film:
Jimmy Stewart can’t escape small-town blues.
By Jenn Ladd
12/19/2012
Film:
Directed by Eugene Jarecki
By Joe Tropea
12/12/2012
Film:
Eugene Jarecki tackles the war on drugs
By Joe Tropea
12/12/2012
Film:
Hitchcock’s script grazes the surface
By Jeff Meyers
12/5/2012
Film:
Physical comedy takes a backseat to contemporary commentary
By Jenn Ladd
12/5/2012
Film:
Baltimore Video Collective, hopes to start an easily accessible nonprofit video library in the city
By Brandon Weigel
11/28/2012
Film:
The challenging prequel to TV’s Twin Peaks
By Bret McCabe
11/28/2012
Film:
Ang Lee explores another dimension in his latest
By Jenn Ladd
11/21/2012
Film:
Everybody has secret urges and desires, some of them dark and, perhaps, violent.
By Brandon Weigel
11/21/2012
Film:
Honest Abe achieves silver-screen sainthood
By Jenn ladd
11/14/2012
Film:
Helen Hunt as a sex surrogate for a polio survivor
By Jenn ladd
11/7/2012
Film:
Beyond the Black Rainbow
Directed by Panos Cosmatos
At the Charles Theatre Nov. 14 at 9 p.m.
The numbers, red on black, slowly reveal themselves, one at a time: 1. 9. 8. 3. Even a few minutes into Beyond the Black Rainbow, the year is already almost a punchline.
By Lee Gardner
11/7/2012
Film:
Barry Levinson explores the bay’s ills in horror movie
By Jenn Ladd
10/29/2012
Film:
The Bay
Directed by Barry Levinson
Opens at the Charles Theatre on Nov. 2
Creepy-crawlers on steroids star in The Bay, Barry Levinson’s new eco-horror film. Fed on tons of chickenshit runoff in the Chesapeake, schools of underwater isopods (Google it) ha
By Jenn Ladd
10/29/2012
Film:
The slasher flick that spawned them all
By Jenn Ladd
10/24/2012
Film:
A fun jaunt through fashion editor Diana Vreeland's life
By Erin Gleeson
10/17/2012
Film:
Documentary ponders the decay and future of Detroit
By Erin Gleeson
10/17/2012
Film:
Janice and Tim’s relationship is adorable and refreshingly real
By Erin Gleeson
10/10/2012
Film:
A film-based performance group takes the viewer to a whole new realm
By R.M. O’Brien
10/10/2012
Film:
Marjane Satrapi talks about the many facets of her latest film
By Erin Gleeson
10/3/2012
Film:
Two years after Happythankyoumoreplease, Radnor continues his study of not-quite-grown-ups
By Erin Gleeson
10/3/2012
Film:
Filmmaker Rory Kennedy gets personal for the first—and last—time
By Erin Gleeson
9/26/2012
Film:
A cult classic featuring naked space vampires.
By Lee Gardner
9/26/2012
Film:
Director Nicholas Jarecki’s thriller moves with precision
By Erin Gleeson
9/11/2012
Film:
Mike Birbiglia survives it all
By Enrique Lopetegui
9/11/2012
Film:
Interpreting dreams with NPR host and co-writer of Sleepwalk with Me Ira Glass
By Kiko Martinez
9/11/2012
Film:
Spike Lee returns to his chronicles of Brooklyn, but proves he’s at home in any film
By Erin Gleeson
8/29/2012
Film:
Conrad Brooks, Derby Baby, Teen Witch, Young Frankenstein, and more
8/29/2012
Film:
A group of friends get swept up in their love of moviemaking
By Erin Gleeson
8/29/2012
Film:
The Charles Theatre’s revival of Modern Times shows Chaplin still up-to-date
By Baynard Woods
8/15/2012
Film:
Omar Broadway’s unauthorized look at prison life offers a new perspective
By Erin Gleeson
8/8/2012
Film:
Over-the-top serial killers Hannibal the Cannibal and Buffalo Bill may chew up the screen, but Starling's at the center of the story.
By Lee Gardner
8/8/2012
Film:
Local horror filmmakers Chris LaMartina and Jimmy George bring their celebration of VHS’s idiosyncratic qualities to Artscape
By Bret McCabe
7/18/2012
Film:
At Artscape, The Charles Theater, July 20-22
7/18/2012
Film:
Director Benh Zeitlin’s first feature is somehow both highly personal and massive in scope
By Erin Gleeson
7/11/2012
Film:
Citypaper talks with writer/director about his first feature
By Erin Gleeson
7/11/2012
Film:
A drifter discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the Earth.
By Erin Gleeson
7/11/2012
Film:
Woody Allen’s love letter to the city of Rome could use some editing
By Erin Gleeson
7/4/2012
Film:
Writer/director Lynn Shelton’s latest film veers away from the script and forges its own path
By Erin Gleeson
6/27/2012
Film:
Results May Vary
By Erin Gleeson
6/20/2012
Film:
Wes Anderson’s tale of romance and adventure aims for lively but ends up lifeless
By Violet LeVoit
6/13/2012
Film:
48 Hour Film Project sends 800 filmmakers scrambling through the soaked streets of Baltimore
By Baynard Woods
6/6/2012
Film:
Andrzej Zulawski’s exploration of a divorce goes for the gut
By Lee Gardner
5/30/2012
Film:
In the 1880s, middle-class women everywhere suffered from an overactive uterus, or so said Dr. Dalrymple
By Erin Gleeson
5/30/2012
Film:
Documentarian Kevin Macdonald gives viewers too much of a good thing: Bob Marley
By Erin Gleeson
5/23/2012
Film:
An unexpected tragedy rips this trio apart
By Erin Gleeson
5/23/2012
Film:
Director Zal Batmanglij guides viewers into a sinister cult world
By Erin Gleeson
5/9/2012
Film Fest Frenzy:
Our guide to the 2012 Maryland Film Festival
5/2/2012
Film Fest Frenzy:
Our guide to the 2012 Maryland Film Festival
5/2/2012
Film:
Director Joss Whedon wrangles an ensemble cast of superheroes and comes out on top
By Max Robinson
5/2/2012
Film:
Writer/director Whit Stillman returns, heads to campus, grabs Greta Gerwig, and hits the dance floor
By Bret McCabe
4/25/2012
Film:
The movie follows the romantic and academic travails of Violet (Greta Gerwig)
By Bret McCabe
4/25/2012
Film:
What if you were offered one of the most powerful—and daunting—jobs on the planet, and what if you were wise enough to know exactly how daunting, nay impossible, such a position might be?
By Lee Gardner
4/25/2012
Film:
A standard haunted-house flick but still packed with some scare power
By Lee Gardner
4/25/2012
Film:
The only thing that outshines Rachel Weisz in Terence Davies’ drama of postwar Britain is Davies himself
By Lee Gardner
4/18/2012
Film:
If its geek pedigree isn’t enough to tip you off that The Cabin in the Woods isn’t your typical slasher movie, it should become clear within the first few minutes
By Michael Gallucci
4/11/2012
Film:
David Gelb’s documentary opens by explaining/confirming its title: 85-year-old Jiro Ono spends all day, almost every day, preparing and making sushi.
By Lee Gardner
4/11/2012
Film:
Indonesian martial-arts flick beats the crap out of tired Hollywood action
By Lee Gardner
4/11/2012
Film:
New doc offers a compelling look at bullying, if not the whole story
By Erin Gleeson
4/11/2012
Film:
The Kid With a Bike
Directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
At the Charles Theatre
Cyril (Thomas Doret)
knows his dad didn’t just leave him at a group home and move away with no plans of coming back. He certainly didn’t sell Cyril’s bike, despite th
By Lee Gardner
4/11/2012
Film:
Scottish director Lynne Ramsay’s flick about the mother of a murderer lacks subtlety
By Lee Gardner
4/4/2012
Film:
Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman puts his focus on Le Crazy Horse de Paris, the French cabaret
By Lee Gardner
4/4/2012
Film:
We’ve heard many tech-savvy, HD-embracing folks swear that digital video is meeting—if not surpassing—the quality of film
By Erin Gleeson
4/4/2012
Film:
A father and son duke it out in academe in Joseph Cedar’s tragicomedy
By Erin Gleeson
3/28/2012
Film:
A post-apocalyptic showcase for a much-needed breath of fresh air in the form of Katniss Everdeen
By Justin Strout
3/21/2012
Film:
Britain’s leading fisheries expert tackles the impossible task of bringing wild salmon from British waters to the deserts of the Middle East.
By Laura Dattaro
3/21/2012
Film:
No stranger to Hollywood she returns to her home country of Poland.
By Erin Gleeson
3/21/2012
Film:
Agnieszka Holland returns with a Holocaust story set in the sewers of a Polish city
By Erin Gleeson
3/21/2012
Film:
Oscar-winning doc focuses on what it takes to compete when you can’t
By Joe MacLeod
3/14/2012
Film:
A new romcom really wants to be something other than another romcom and almost succeeds
By Lee Gardner
3/7/2012
Film:
Thin Ice suffers by comparison with another Midwestern white-out noir
By Lee Gardner
2/29/2012
Film:
Blank City
Kino Lorber DVD and Blu-ray
Celine Danhier’s documentary on New York’s underground film scene delves so deep into NYC hipster history that it features photographs of director Jim Jarmusch with dark hair. Thus Blank City qualifies as essential
By Lee Gardner
2/29/2012
Film:
An annual festival of French film returns to JHU for a third year
2/22/2012
Film:
Our 10th annual fake Oscars
2/22/2012
Film:
A real-life couple mess up the story of their own real-life tragedy
By Erin Gleeson
2/22/2012
Film:
A gripping Iranian domestic mystery introduces a rare cinematic talent to American viewers
By Lee Gardner
2/15/2012
Film:
A Separation’s director tells just enough of the truth (in his film)
By Lee Gardner
2/15/2012
Film:
For nearly three hours, you watch former Romanian Communist autocrat Nicolae Ceausescu give speeches
By Lee Gardner
2/15/2012
Film:
Sundance fave has everything going for it but a resistance to queer coming-of-age cliche
By Violet LeVoit
2/1/2012
Film:
The way reggae and Rastafarianism arose and ultimately grew together
is the subject of a new documentary
By Lee Gardner
2/1/2012
Film:
"Starring Vincent Gallo" wouldn't ordinarily be considered a sign of progress to a more nuanced view of the Afghanistan conflict
By Lee Gardner
2/1/2012
Film:
A new doc tells the story of two twentysomethings who live next door
to a pair of screaming drunks and decide to tape them
By Erin Gleeson
2/1/2012
Film:
Glenn Close’s cross-dressing-servant passion project fumbles its passions
By Lee Gardner
1/25/2012
Film:
Thai film ponders the ineffable down on the farm
By Lee Gardner
1/25/2012
Film:
LGBT Film fest features documentaries, lesbian space aliens, and transgender Indonesian superheroes
1/18/2012
Film:
When it comes to the roots of psychoanalysis, David Cronenberg’s latest isn’t all talk
By Lee Gardner
1/18/2012
Film:
Post-Sept. 11 film pulls off eccentric, small-scale redemption
By Violet LeVoit
1/18/2012
Film:
Many of the best films in the western genre bear an elegiac quality
By Lee Gardner
1/18/2012
Film:
Roman Polanski’s black comedy mostly assaults your patience.
By Lee Gardner
1/11/2012
Film:
John Huston was making great films right up until his death at 81
By Lee Gardner
1/11/2012
Film:
The Iron Lady
Directed by Phyllida Lloyd
Opens Jan. 13
Recently, a co-worker expressed a mixture of anticipation and caution regarding The Iron Lady, the Meryl Streep-headlined biopic of the controversial former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. “I
By Justin Strout
1/11/2012
Film:
Week End
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
At the Charles Theatre Jan. 14, 16, and 19
If there was ever a time for a Week End revival, it’s our wearily recessionary, Occupied era. This vivid restored print of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 era-ender can beam out ove
By Lee Gardner
1/11/2012
Film:
The director of Let the Right One In does John le Carré’s spy classic right
By Michael Gallucci
1/4/2012
Film:
Steven Spielberg’s PG-13 battle action offsets boy-and-his-steed sap
By Laura Dattaro
12/21/2011
Film:
Even a monkey in a tiny jumpsuit can’t save Cameron Crowe’s latest
By Erin Gleeson
12/21/2011
Be prepared to be surprised and delighted
12/21/2011
Film:
Virtually every American and billions around the planet knew his name
By Lee Gardner
12/21/2011
Film:
A solid documentary gets inside Fishbone’s extraordinary career
By Lee Gardner
12/14/2011
Film:
Steve McQueen and Michael Fassbender reunite for this sex addiction story
By Erin Gleeson
12/14/2011
Film:
The real make-or-break point for The Future comes early
By Lee Gardner
12/14/2011
Film:
After her divorce, writer Mavis Gary retuns home to small-town Minnesota.
By Joe MacLeod
12/14/2011
Film:
A lost Fassbinder sci-fi film returns to the screen, here in the future where it belongs
By Lee Gardner
12/7/2011
Film:
A focus on aimless urban twentysomethings
By Lee Gardner
12/7/2011
Film:
Scorsese’s first children’s adventure comes from his own inner child
By Justin Strout
11/23/2011
Film:
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and Kirsten Dunst feels like crap
By Lee Gardner
11/23/2011
Film:
Alexander Payne returns, seven years after
Sideways, with his best film yet
By Justin Strout
11/23/2011
Film:
Michelle Williams leaves everyone else, even the film itself, in her dust as Marilyn Monroe
By Justin Strout
11/23/2011
Film:
Set in Sicily in the 1860s, Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard tells the story of Prince Don Fabrizio Salina (Burt Lancaster) and his slow decline in power.
By Erin Gleeson
11/23/2011
Film:
Elmo is so full of personality that it’s easy to forget he’s actually a puppet
By Laura Dattaro
11/16/2011
Film:
Ross McElwee bridges a new generation gap on camera
By Lee Gardner
11/16/2011
Film:
Matt Porterfield’s portraits of his Baltimore hometown hit home video
By Lee Gardner
11/9/2011
Film:
Two new talents with a similarly gifted up-and-coming cast have crafted a film that shows the careful restraint and artistic clarity not often seen in newcomers
By Laura Dattaro
11/2/2011
Film:
Pedro Almodóvar’s latest isn’t as good as it looks
By Lee Gardner
11/2/2011
Film:
It should come as no surprise to any fans of writer/director Dito Montiel (Fighting, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints) that his latest movie stars Channing Tatum. Montiel has an affinity for cas
By Danielle Ariano
11/2/2011
Film:
Porn, a child’s exposure to porn, explicit sex, physical abuse and degradation, explicit sex in front of a child, pedophilia, forced drug use, rape, murder, necrophilia, more physical abuse and degradation
By Lee Gardner
11/2/2011
Film:
Christina Ricci flees a job interview to spend her summer working at the Renaissance Fair.
By Laura Dattaro
10/28/2011
Film:
The Japanese Imperial Army does carry at least one mid-20th-century mass atrocity on its ledger.
By Lee Gardner
10/26/2011
Film:
If you prefer films where the plot is clearly explained, and you can really care about the characters, Margin Call may not be for you.
By Anna Ditkoff
10/26/2011
Film:
When you think you have the extraordinary Jeff Nichols film all figured out, it proves you wrong. And then it does it again
By Lee Gardner
10/26/2011
Film:
South Korea boasts the most interesting film scene in the world right now, and part of the reason it’s so interesting is that, on the surface, it’s not that interesting.
By By Lee Gardner
10/19/2011
Film:
David Cronenberg’s breakout is as disturbing now as it was nearly 30 media-saturated years ago
By Lee Gardner
10/19/2011
Film:
Comically grotesque low-budget horror, courtesy local writer/director Chris LaMartina.
By Lee Gardner
10/12/2011
Film:
Gus Van Sant directs a precociously quirky romantic comedy about death
By Lee Gardner
10/12/2011
Film:
A new adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel of teen violence does it few favors
By Lee Gardner
10/5/2011
Film:
Vera Farmiga’s directing debut is as intriguing as her acting and unconventional good looks.
By Wendy Ward
10/5/2011
Film:
Thunder Soul is a joyous, touching, and inspiring documentary about the 2008 35th-year reunion of the Kashmere High School Stage Band of Houston, Texas.
By Joe MacLeod
10/5/2011
Film:
A female musical prodigy struggles against 18th-century sexism in uneven biopic
By Lee Gardner
9/28/2011
Film:
Concise editing, strategic momentum, and masterfully performed fight dances, while never letting the audience forget why this is happening.
By Justin Strout
9/14/2011
Film:
This is no event thriller or disaster movie. It’s a meticulous doomsday scenario imagined by someone with a seeming need to visualize the worst as a salve to his anxiety.
By Justin Strout
9/14/2011
Film:
It rolls like an homage to contemporary urban noir, a cross between early Michael Mann and Grand Theft Auto.
By Lee Gardner
9/14/2011
Film:
Danish cult director Nicolas Winding Refn goes Hollywood (sort of) with Drive
By Lee Gardner
9/14/2011
Film:
The director of Life, Above All discusses AIDS, silence, and other weighty topics
By Andrea Appleton
9/7/2011
Film:
Helen Mirren probably isn’t the first star who comes to mind when one thinks of thrillers about krav maga-trained Israeli secret agents, but then Mirren has made her living as an actress defying expectations.
By Anna Ditkoff
9/7/2011
Film:
Norwegian monster flick falls into "found footage" conventions, but has fun along the way.
By Lee Gardner
8/31/2011
Film:
The film does not entirely work, though it’s not for lack of ability or desire.
By Justin Strout
8/24/2011
Home Video:
Two wounded gangsters fleeing a botched job seek refuge in the home of a not-quite-happily married couple—it’s the sort of setup that has fueled any number of rote thrillers over the years.
By Lee Gardner
8/24/2011
Film:
You will not really enjoy The Whistleblower, and you will feel bad about not enjoying it.
By Lee Gardner
8/17/2011
Film:
Anti-fracking film screens at the Creative Alliance Aug. 18
By Andrea Appleton
8/17/2011
Film:
Brendan Gleeson stars in a buddy-cop flick that subverts buddy-cop cliches
By Michael Byrne
8/17/2011
Film:
Another Earth
Directed by Mike Cahill
Movies can’t just blow your mind with zooming X-wings anymore. They need to blow it on a completely different level, with a totally mind-fucking story to go along with all the fancy CGI effects (cf., The Matri
By Michael Gallucci
8/17/2011
Film:
Fright Night
Directed by Craig Gillespie
Opens Aug. 19
Hollywood’s been stuck in the grip of redo/reboot/lets-bring-back-___ mania for more than a decade now. Often, these kinda deals miss the point or just Xerox their predecessor (lookin’ at you,
By Max Robinson
8/17/2011
Film:
By Jessica Manzo
8/17/2011
Film:
A film about the relationships between black housekeepers and the white women they worked for in the South during the 1960s.
By Wendy Ward
8/10/2011
Film:
Director Tate Taylor and actress Octavia Spencer talk about The Help
By Wendy Ward
8/10/2011
Home Video:
As Cold Weather begins, Doug has moved back home to Portland, and in with his sister Gail.
By Lee Gardner
8/10/2011
Film:
This prequel starts at the very beginning, when a lab chimp injected with a serum to cure Alzheimer’s gives birth to Caesar.
By Michael Gallucci
8/10/2011
Film:
A documentary about an ape sheds light on human nature
By Andrea Appleton
8/10/2011
Film:
Funny, deep Crazy, Stupid, Love, is about a marriage that’s fallen apart, but other people and their stories connect.
By Wendy Ward
8/3/2011
Film:
You don’t have to think, just let it happen.
By Joe MacLeod
8/3/2011
Film:
Errol Morris has some fun with the sex-stoked case of the “manacled Mormon”
By Lee Gardner
8/3/2011
Home Video:
Yes, there are vampires, but not the garden-variety sexy teens or swellegant Euros.
By Lee Gardner
8/3/2011
Film:
Wrenching story of the Holocaust in France filtered through a contemporary domestic drama
By Wendy Ward
7/27/2011
Film:
This is the latest comic-book movie about a guy who gets made into some sort of super soldier.
By Joe MacLeod
7/27/2011
Home Video:
Though it seems like a bad dream now, it wasn’t so long ago that people lived with the knowledge/belief that nuclear war and the end of the world could happen any day.
By Lee Gardner
7/27/2011
Film:
A fun, if forgettable, take on the usual romcom tropes
By Emily Schiller
7/20/2011
Film:
Get ready for the best movie in the series and a spectacular finale to this magical universe.
By Michael Gallucci
7/20/2011
DVD:
This film focuses on the final days of a Uncle as he retreats to the Thai countryside and dies of kidney failure.
By Lee Gardner
7/20/2011
DVD:
Takashi Miike reaches back to chanbara, the venerable samurai film genre to the surprise and delight of many Miike watchers.
By Lee Gardner
7/13/2011
Film:
A Mexican-American version of the classic 1948 Italian neorealist film Bicycle Thieves could not have come at a more appropriate time.
By Kiko Martínez
7/13/2011
Film:
Harry Shearer’s new doc indicts the Army Corps of Engineers for the post-Katrina flooding of New Orleans
By Lee Gardner
7/13/2011
Film:
Dark of the Moon follows the series’ trusty protagonist Sam Witwicky as he tries to enter the job market with nothing but a college degree and a medal from President Obama.
By Justin Strout
7/6/2011
Film:
Maybe the director wasn’t ready for the job
By Wendy Ward
7/6/2011
Film:
Sudeikis, Bateman, and Day play three abused employees looking to kill their three terrible bosses.
By Wendy Ward
7/6/2011
Film:
Bullet Man splits the difference between the incoherence of Z-horror and the aesthetic rigor and surrealism of the avant-garde.
By Lee Gardner
7/6/2011
Film:
Documentary finds America’s foremost daily paper struggling with the future—and itself
By Bret McCabe
6/29/2011
Film:
injected with over-the-top gags, and workplace comedy penned by authors of episodes of The Office. The array of amusing characters may seem oddly familiar.
By Jenn Ladd
6/29/2011
Film:
Lightning McQueen returns home to spend some time with his best friend Mater and his girlfriend. But his R&R is cut short when he accepts a challenge from cocky race car Francesco Bernoulli
By Ben Gifford
6/29/2011
Film:
A new documentary film examines U.S. immigration policy through one family’s fractured life
By Andrea Appleton
6/22/2011
Film:
The warm-and-fuzzies emitted by this documentary send one out of the theater and into the balmy summer night satisfied and buoyant.
By Jenn Ladd
6/22/2011
Film:
In the relationship drama Beginners, retired museum director Hal (Christopher Plummer) decides that his 75th year is the perfect opportunity to tell his son that he’s gay.
By Michael Gallucci
6/22/2011
Film:
A successful real estate developer who lives for business hours and the big score. inherits a penguin from his late explorer father.
By Michael Gallucci
6/22/2011
Film:
A hotshot test pilot is given a magic ring by the police of the universe.
By Joe MacLeod
6/22/2011
DVD:
Eun-yi (Jeon Do-youn) is young, attractive, struggling, and in need of a job.
By Lee Gardner
6/22/2011
Film:
This is a fun summer-blockbuster kind of movie set in the late 1970s/early ‘80s, and it looks and behaves like a Steven Spielberg movie.
By Joe MacLeod
6/15/2011
DVD:
German auteur looks at the universe and sees beauty, mystery, terror, and awe.
By Lee Gardner
6/15/2011
Film:
Getting down with Submarine’s captain
By Wendy Ward
6/15/2011
Film:
Judy Moody (Jordana Beatty) is a restless redheaded third-grader determined to have the best summer ever.
By Jeff Niesel
6/15/2011
Film:
Submarine is a lovely little meditation on being a teen. Nothing at all wrong with it, but it feels a bit underwhelming.
By Wendy Ward
6/15/2011
Film:
Highmore faces an issue this time that’s much bigger than himself and even the movie: the meaning of life.
By Courtney Kerrigan
6/15/2011
DVD:
Thomas Dekker plays 18-year-old Smith, a skinny bi college student struggling with his feelings
By Lee Gardner
6/8/2011
Film:
Based on real events, this heartwarming, well-intentioned movie is engaging and evocative.
By Corey Hall
6/8/2011
Film:
Our latest attraction in the Summer of Comic Book movies is a Prequel, Reboot—hey, let’s call it a Preboot, OK?
By Joe MacLeod
6/8/2011
Film:
it’s a pretty typical Allen foray into imaginative entertainment
By Bret McCabe
6/8/2011
Film:
Terrence Malick's personal epic dazzles and confounds
By Bret McCabe
6/8/2011
Film:
The Incendies writer/director talks landing a dream project and getting more than he bargained for
By Bret McCabe
6/1/2011
Television:
Men of a Certain Age Returns June 1 on TNT
By Wendy Ward
6/1/2011
DVD:
When pancreatic cancer took the life of Bill Hicks in 1994, he was beloved by a core fan base and adored in the UK.
By Bret McCabe
6/1/2011
Film:
Her entire world changes in one drawn breath.
By Bret McCabe
6/1/2011
Film:
By Michael Gallucci
6/1/2011
Film:
Animated sequel actually delivers the martial-arts flick goods
5/25/2011
Film:
Writer/director Caroline Bottaro’s feature debut offers Sandrine Bonnaire a chance to strut her considerable acting stuff in this lighthearted but smart tale.
By Bret McCabe
5/25/2011
Film:
One look at Guido lets you know he’s seen more than he wishes he has in this life already.
By Bret McCabe
5/25/2011
Film:
The story this time has to do with the Fountain of Youth and all the different pirates, including Captain Jack Sparrow and Blackbeard looking for it.
By Michael Galluci
5/25/2011
DVD:
The world needs another serial-killer movie like it needs another hit-man-out-for-one-last-job movie.
By Lee Gardner
5/25/2011
DVD:
Most slasher-revenge-type movies can barely aspire to this kind of nuance, or this kind of dread.
By Michael Byrne
5/25/2011
Film:
The Beaver is a movie studio’s worst nightmare.
By Michael Galluci
5/18/2011
Film:
Bridesmaids is not a rom com (thank fucking God).
By Wendy Ward
5/18/2011
Film:
You don’t have to have carried a lifelong torch for French cinema to appreciate François Ozon, but it certainly doesn’t hurt.
By Bret McCabe
5/18/2011
Film:
Manifest destiny sounds like overburdened old wooden furniture.
By Bret McCabe
5/18/2011
Film:
Part marketing dissection, part marketing lesson.
By Bret McCabe
5/11/2011
Film:
Entertaining, silly, and over-designed, Thor is an exercise in comic-book excess.
By Jeff Meyers
5/11/2011
Film:
The documentary filmmaker enters the corporate world of brand management in
The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
By Bret McCabe
5/11/2011
Film:
Omnipresent funnyman Will Ferrell changes it up and goes serious as a guy who loses his job, wife, etc.
By Joe MacLeod
5/11/2011
Film:
What’s the last thing that made you feel rage? Not just rage, but powerful injustice?
By Michael Byrne
5/11/2011
Film:
“Jumping the Broom” refers to a romantic African-American tradition dating back to slavery.
By Corey Hall
5/11/2011
Film:
Kate Hudson in a wedding dress is what Burt Reynolds behind a steering wheel used to be.
By Corey Hall
5/11/2011
Film:
Documentary film excavates the 20th-century troubles of an Eastern European region
By Bret McCabe
5/11/2011
DVD:
There seems to be no particular plot-driving reason that the silver-haired Lt. Col. Norman Hyde emerges from a grotty London manhole wearing a natty tuxedo.
By Lee Gardner
5/11/2011
Film:
Superfluous subplots detract from historical drama about Opus Dei’s founder
By Jenn Ladd
5/4/2011
Film:
Non-traditional video/film work takes over the Metro Gallery
5/4/2011
Film:
By Milan Paurich
5/4/2011
Film:
By Jeff Niesel
5/4/2011
DVD:
Many film nerds count 1981’s Blow Out as their favorite Brian De Palma flick, and it’s not hard to see why.
By Lee Gardner
5/4/2011
DVD:
In the skin of a documentary, suspense can provide a potent, often humanizing, drive to nonfiction.
By Jerard Fagerberg
5/4/2011
Film:
It’s not often you win a girl over by shooting her horse, but such is the case in Water for Elephants.
By Jenn Ladd
4/27/2011
Film:
A coming of age tour de force. Breathtaking, heart-wrenching. A new classic.
By Michael Byrne
4/27/2011
DVD:
Sometimes at the top of spring, you need a slice of European life. A Summer in Genoa is such a fix.
By Wendy Ward
4/20/2011
Film:
The latest 3D CGI talking-animal movie is about a rare and pampered pet macaw named Blu from Minneapolis.
By Michael Gallucci
4/20/2011
Film:
Director Wes Craven and writer Kevin Williamson swore that Scream 3 concluded the cleverly self-referential horror series, but, surprise, here’s another one for masked-slasher fans.
By Charles Cassady Jr.
4/20/2011
Film:
This stoner comedy—about two medieval princes on a quest to rescue a beautiful princess, featuring Danny McBride, James Franco and Zooey Deschanel.
By Michael Gallucci
4/20/2011
Film:
They just don’t make car chases like they did in ripe 1970s trash
By Lee Gardner
4/20/2011
Film:
What is it with superheroes these days? Not the Batmans and the Iron Mans or any of the iconic caped crusaders we all grew up with—the newfangled superheroes.
By Michael Galluci
4/20/2011
Film:
Over-attention to detail slightly bogs down ambitious historical courtroom drama
By Tim Hill
4/13/2011
Film:
In Borneo’s Tanjung Puting National Park, Biruté Mary Galdikas rescues young orangutans whose mothers have been killed and whose homes have been destroyed by loggers.
By Laura Dattaro
4/13/2011
Film:
Joe Wright’s latest effort is a thriller with echoes of Atonement’s chilly perfection and emotional highs—and, again, featuring Saoirse Ronan, the tremendously talented young actress with the piercing blue eyes.
By Wendy Ward
4/13/2011
Film:
Teenage girls dealing with the trials of adolescence aren’t new to the big screen. Trade high school for surfing and you’ve got the opening of Soul Surfer.
By Alyssa Bianco
4/13/2011
Film:
A socially stunted insurance salesman is forced to attend the titular convention, schmooze it up, and vie for a Prestigious Award with the future success of his company in the balance.
By Joe MacLeod
4/13/2011
Film:
If you take nothing else away from filmmaker Ellen Weissbrod’s ingenious intermingling of her own story with a portrait of a frequently overlooked woman artist, take this: Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi was pretty much a force of nature.
By Bret McCabe
4/13/2011
Film:
Much less adorable and a tad less lovable is Russell Brand’s Arthur in this rather unnecessary remake
By Wendy Ward
4/13/2011
Film:
Talking with the production company that aims to put the accurate details in historical dramas
By Tim Hill
4/13/2011
Film:
Found Footage Fest hits town with “Heavy Metal Parking Lot” in tow
By Andrea Appleton
4/6/2011
Film:
Fact and fiction make odd bedfellows in Abbas Kiarostami’s riff on the Euro art flick
By Bret McCabe
4/6/2011
Film:
Writer/director Tom McCarthy lays claim to being that most unfashionable of entities on the American indie circuit: a dyed-in-the-wool humanist.
By Milan Paurich
4/6/2011
Film:
Hop is the story of two twentysomething slackers with overbearing fathers. One is a jobless human; the other is the future Easter Bunny.
By Michael Gallucci
4/6/2011
Film:
Despite the recent zombie-, sea monster-, and androidification of many classic books, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre has proven immune, perhaps because it already has something in it that goes bump in the night.
By Anna Ditkoff
4/6/2011
The time-space continuum offers an eon’s worth of problems for filmmakers. How do you get from Point A to Point B without losing grasp of your whole movie?
By Michael Gallucci
4/6/2011
On TV:
The most curious question that keeps popping up in casual conversations about HBO’s five-episode miniseries is why. Why does this 1941 James M. Cain novel require another adaptation.
By Bret McCabe
3/30/2011
Film:
Saw’s James Wan and Leigh Whannell crank out an old-school scary movie
By Lee Gardner
3/30/2011
Film:
Superbly touching documentary follows one man’s life in picture taking
By Bret McCabe
3/30/2011
Film:
At the Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus March 31-April 3
3/30/2011
Film:
Genre nerds can have a blast with Insidious, trainspotting the various borrowed genre staples (the big old house, the creepy attic, the eerie rocking horse) and lifts from specific classics (Poltergeist, Psycho, The Haunting, and did we mention Poltergeist?).
By Lee Gardner
3/30/2011
Film:
Haunting treatment of 1996 beheadings a powerfully empathetic look at belief
By Michael Byrne
3/23/2011
Film:
a Gothic rock ‘n’ roll tale of girl in peril meets sword, mentor, posse, and strength, with a flea market of bits and pieces influenced by steampunk and psychedelia.
By Wendy Ward
3/23/2011
Film:
Pop culture has perpetuated the idea that we only use 10-20 percent of our brains. In fact, we already exert our brains’ full capacities; it’s well documented. Sorry
By Jenn Ladd
3/23/2011
Film:
Michael Connelly fans rejoice: Director Brad Furman and screenwriter John Romano capably handle the crime fiction workhorse’s 2005 novel about Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Mick Haller.
By Bret McCabe
3/23/2011
Film:
This comedy movie is “Rated R for language including sexual references, and some drug use,” but it’s a gentle and funny “R” in the hands of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.
By Joe MacLeod
3/23/2011
Film:
This is a movie about Space Aliens attacking the Earth: KA-BOOM, yeah.
By Joe MacLeod
3/16/2011
Film:
Catherine Hardwicke's update on the fairy tale jettisons psychosexual drama in favor of cheesy CGI effects, fake exteriors, bad acting, and oafish dialogue.
By Pamela Zoslov
3/16/2011
Film:
Restored 1948 documentary about Nazi war crimes remains relevant
By Lee Gardner
3/16/2011
DVD:
A dramatic love story about a tightly wound woman whose sensual unraveling becomes her downfall.
By Wendy Ward
3/16/2011
Film:
The Adjustment Bureau , based on Philip K. Dick’s short story “Adjustment Team” and written/directed by George Nolfi, portends to comment on the paths of destiny and fate, of free will and choice and happiness
By Laura Dattaro
3/9/2011
ImageMovers’ newest animated movie has its heart in the right place, and thankfully for those who dig the new fad of being given snazzy glasses upon entering the theater, its heart comes through in Disney Digital 3D.
By Lauren Loeffler
3/9/2011
Film:
There is no animal more emblematic of Africa than the lion, but as the prologue to Dereck and Beverly Joubert’s wildlife film notes, the number of wild lions has dropped from nearly half a million 50 years ago to less than 20,000 today.
By Lee Gardner
3/9/2011
Film:
Alphonse’s fiancée has run off with the stuntman. The young actor is heartbroken and won’t leave his hotel room. When he does, it’s in the middle of the night, he’s wearing nothing but a nightshirt, and he greets his co-stars and crew with a ribald statement of comic fact: “I need money to go to a whorehouse.”
By Bret McCabe
3/9/2011
Film:
Mesrine: Killer Instinct
Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1
Music Box Home Entertainment
Colin Firth really swept up the awards recently for his star turn in The King’s Speech. Bully for him—no, seriously. A thoughtful role for a thoughtful actor who k
By Bret McCabe
3/9/2011
Film:
Online show Click on This aims to promote—and advocate for—the region’s dwindling film industry
By Lily Newman
3/9/2011
Film:
A young man, Cory, is dead from a drug overdose—and in a few days there will be a funeral followed by a wake. This is, in essence, the story of Putty Hill.
By Michael Byrne
3/2/2011
Film:
Local filmmaker Matthew Porterfield mines community through the camera’s lens
By Michael Byrne
3/2/2011
Film:
Perhaps it was only a matter of time before a studio decided to computer-animate a western.
By Jenn Ladd
3/2/2011
Film:
If you can’t take a movie with gore and tits and ass and mayhem and cars and shit that blows up real good and naked bitch-slapping and crude but effective dialogue and guns and bigger guns and cigarettes and ass-whuppings then stay home.
By Joe MacLeod
3/2/2011
Film:
A big, fat, stinky adventure in sequel-milking.
By Joe MacLeod
3/2/2011
Film:
A socially stunted insurance salesman is forced to attend the titular convention, schmooze it up, and vie for a Prestigious Award with the future success of his company in the balance.
By Joe MacLeod
3/2/2011
DVD:
There is an esoteric history of America that is often dismissed as folklore and myth. Matthew Pellowski’s film explores, at length, one of these strange histories.
By Jerard Fagerberg
3/2/2011
Film:
City Paper's own condescending movie awards, the Alties™
By Alex Ebstein, Michael Byrne, Jerard Fagerberg, Lee Gardner, Bret McCabe, Brandon Soderberg, and Wendy Ward
2/23/2011
Film:
Jacques Tati script receives a lovingly animated adaptation
By Andrea Appleton
2/23/2011
Film:
Dancing for Dara
At 2640 Space Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m.
Film nerds who haven’t seen Ben Coonley’s “One Trick Pony” are in for a real treat tonight. In this almost five-minute-long 2002 short, a toy pony—yes, you read that right—offers dance instructions
2/23/2011
Film:
A chat with the documentarian who put composer Lou Harrison’s world onscreen
By Bret McCabe
2/23/2011
Film:
Underneath its slick surface, I Am Number Four has everything.
By Justin Strout
2/23/2011
Film:
There should be a cutoff for shower scenes, and Liam Neeson should abide by it.
By Jenn Ladd
2/23/2011
Film:
Somewhere around A.D. 100, the 9th Legion of the Roman army went missing in the vast territory now known as Scotland.
By Michael Byrne
2/16/2011
Film:
This took six writers?
By Wendy Ward
2/16/2011
DVD:
When Claude Chabrol passed away Sept. 12, 2010, he left behind one of the most prolific resumes of the French New Wave.
By Bret McCabe
2/16/2011
Paul Giamatti anchors this loving, problematic adaptation of Mordecai Richler’s great novel
By Bret McCabe
2/16/2011
Film:
It’s a shame animated shorts don’t get more attention.
By Laura Dattaro
2/9/2011
Film:
Set in a small German village just before the dawn of World War I, The White Ribbon becomes broad consideration of a community choking on itself.
By Michael Byrne
2/9/2011
Film:
Alejandro González Iñárritu simplifies and impresses on the streets of Barcelona
By Steven G. Kellman
2/9/2011
Film:
The Biutiful director talks about love, transformation and the difficulties his movies have faced
By Enrique Lopetegui
2/9/2011
Film:
Tiny Furniture may be the most adorable movie ever made about people who can’t be bothered to recognize your existence.
By Bret McCabe
2/9/2011
Film:
“Executive Producer: James Cameron”—that should tell you plenty right there.
By Lee Gardner
2/9/2011
DVD:
Before he was Mr. Milla Jovovich, Paul Anderson helmed this gritty portrait of alienated urban youth.
By Bret McCabe
2/9/2011
Film:
Documentary follows immigrants getting to know each other during pickup soccer games
By Bret McCabe
2/2/2011
Film:
Landmark 1987 PBS documentary on civil rights finally appearing on DVD
By Andrea Appleton
2/2/2011
Film:
Prolific filmmaker Mike Leigh follows a couple through a year in their life together.
By Wendy Ward
2/2/2011
Film:
Why so serious? The main thing action flicks featuring Jason Statham have on their side is their sly sense of humor.
By Jeff Meyers
2/2/2011
Film:
Head salesman Bobby Walker (Ben Affleck) had a great morning on the golf course and practically whistles while he walks into a meeting in a very quiet conference room.
By Wendy Ward
2/2/2011
Film:
The Rite is as much about having faith in an audience as it is about religious faith.
By Michael Byrne
2/2/2011
Pascal Chaumeil’s delightful French romp, full of fabulous-looking stars and stunning landscapes, runs circles around American romantic comedies
By Wendy Ward
2/2/2011
Film:
Gaspar Noé dives into the afterlife
By Bret McCabe
1/26/2011
Film:
Sofia Coppola follows her male lead to nowhere
By Bret McCabe
1/19/2011
Film:
The idea here is whether or not to tell your best friend his spouse is cheating on him. Obviously we all know the answer.
By Joe MacLeod
1/19/2011
Film:
A relationship falls apart on screen--and so does the movie, a little
By Bret McCabe
1/12/2011
Film:
That the 1966 television adaptation of radio's beloved Green Hornet was billed as The Kato Show in Hong Kong pretty much sums up 2011's The Green Hornet.
By Stephen Graham Jones
1/12/2011
Film:
Rabbit Hole is a tough sell. It’s based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning play, not a hit video game or comic book.
By Milan Paurich
1/12/2011
Film:
It’s not even like it’s bad enough to goof on, it’s just very not good.
By Joe MacLeod
1/12/2011
DVD:
Soul Kitchen
Directed by Fatih Akin
When this delightful German comedy opened locally last October, it was added on a Monday and didn’t give us much time to get a review into the paper. It left almost just as abruptly—which was frustrating, becaus
By Bret McCabe
1/12/2011
Film:
Long-distance relay documentary propelled by the people who run it
By Laura Dattaro
1/5/2011
Film:
Abramoff biopic charms, and that's all
By Bret McCabe
1/5/2011
DVD:
George Clooney handles this sleek but shallow Euro-actioner
By Lee Gardner
1/5/2011
Film:
Sally Hawkins stars in this heartstrings-pulling drama of a 1968 women’s labor strike
By Wendy Ward
12/29/2010
DVD:
French writers/directors Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher offer an ingenious setup for this otherwise familiar zombie flick.
By Bret McCabe
12/29/2010
Film:
Jeff Bridges and the Coen Brothers' version of classic Western feels a little lightweight
By Lee Gardner
12/22/2010
Film:
Not everyone is a Jedi-Nerd, so we need to explain this is a sequel to a computer animation 1.0 science-fiction movie that was made in the year 1982.
By Joe MacLeod
12/22/2010
Film:
There’s something about the real-life British monarchy that makes for great onscreen drama.
By Michael Gallucci
12/22/2010
While this movie certainly is a big stinky turd, there are some small fragments of comedy-corn.
By Joe MacLeod
12/22/2010
James L. Brooks’ latest foray into the lovelorn takes some heavy lifting to reach its heartwarming conclusion.
12/22/2010
Film:
Darren Aronofsky makes Natalie Portman suffer for the ballet
By Ian Grey
12/15/2010
Film:
Jim Carey and Ewan McGregor star in unbelievable feeling true-life story
By Andrea Appleton
12/15/2010
Film:
David O. Russell, Mark Wahlberg, and Christian Bale deliver a near knockout family drama
By Michael Byrne
12/15/2010
Film:
Strong performances from Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst don't save this ripped-from-the headlines drama
By Lee Gardner
12/15/2010
Film:
Surprise: Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp make living fabulously beautiful and wealthy look enviable
By Bret McCabe
12/15/2010
Film:
Quiet drama offers a refreshing take on a cliched tale
By Bret McCabe
12/10/2010
Top Ten:
I watch the Hawaii Five-O remake on CBS. There, I said it. Now, don’t get me wrong—it’s awful.
12/8/2010
Top Ten:
Though only one cracked into
City Paper’s Top 10 list, 2010’s cinematic cup runneth over with top-notch documentaries—and not just the Michael Moore, Errol Morris, An Inconvenient Truth sort of zeitgeist-baiting nonfiction. Instead, smaller, more intima
12/8/2010
Film:
Yimou turns the Coen brothers into a stunning void
By Bret McCabe
12/8/2010
Film:
By Joe MacLeod
12/8/2010
DVD:
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film
Lux Digital
THE MOVIE: One of the many villains of Eli Roth’s gorno “classic” Hostel: Part II, Stuart, the guy that gets his genitals sliced off at the end, winds up being one
By Michael Byrne
12/8/2010
Film:
Lucy Walker directs a great documentary out of Vik Muniz making art out of garbage
By Bret McCabe
12/3/2010
Film:
The filmmaker on "Bill Murray Life Lessons" and other filmmaking ideas
By Bret McCabe
12/1/2010
Film:
Nicolas Winding Refn and Mads Mikkelsen take you somewhere you won't soon forget
By Bret Mccabe
11/24/2010
Film:
Cher and Christina deliver a bawdy, gaudy good time
By Wendy Ward
11/24/2010
Jake Gyllenhaal's manwhore discovers true love in Edward Zwick's latest romantic dramedy
By Rebecca Fishbein
11/24/2010
Film:
Danny Boyle traps James Franco at the bottom of a canyon--and makes it cinematically exciting and excrutiating
By Michael Byrne
11/19/2010
Film:
Potter finale leads off with a dark installment
By Callie Enlow
11/19/2010
Film:
The film writer on noir, blogs vs. zines, and the death of the VCR
By Lee Gardner
11/17/2010
Film:
Homeschooling gets taken to absurd extremes in this brilliant Greek dark comedy
By Lee Gardner
11/10/2010
Film:
Morning Glory
Directed by Roger Michell
Opens Nov. 12
Having a journalist review Morning Glory is a little like having a train conductor review Unstoppable: We’re essentially the butt of the joke. At the very least, though, screenwriter Aline Bros
By Callie Enlow
11/10/2010
Film:
Watching Tony Scott’s Unstoppable makes you empathize with the 1896 audience that supposedly fled their seats upon seeing a train barreling down the screen at them.
By Pamela Zoslov
11/10/2010
DVD:
By Bret McCabe
11/10/2010
Film:
The Oscar-nominated director wants us to understand what really happened in the financial meltdown
By Edward Ericson Jr.
11/3/2010
Film:
Final installment of Stig Larsson's crime saga doesn't dazzle, but is plenty satisfying
By Bret McCabe
10/28/2010
Film:
James Franco is way too pretty to play Allen Ginsberg, but he manages to inhabit the poet’s idiosyncratic skin
By Bret McCabe
10/27/2010
Film:
Alain Resnais still finds fresh inspiration in an off-center romcom
By Bret McCabe
10/27/2010
Film:
More Britishness, another psychic, a few skillful bits
By Bret McCabe
10/20/2010
Film:
Edward Norton leads accomplished actors in an actorly excercise in acting
By Joe MacLeod
10/20/2010
Film:
A true-life story of a woman fighting to prove her sibling's innocence
By Wendy Ward
10/20/2010
Film:
By Jonah Furman
9/29/2010
Film:
Catfish
Directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman
Opens Oct. 1.
While much of the vast information superhighway has twisted itself into pretzel shapes of confliction, adulation, and speculation for months over David Fincher’s unflattering portr
By Corey Hall
9/29/2010
Film:
David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin explore the alleged story of Facebook
By Laura Dattaro
9/29/2010
Film:
The relatively lengthy running time of Going the Distance, coupled with its wearily predictable ending, gives you plenty of time to think about the relentless demands of commercial moviemaking.
By Pamela Zoslov
9/1/2010
Film:
As Martin Scorsese settles into his cinematic dotage, directors whose crime movies can stand tall beside his prime-era verve, grit, and sweep are suddenly mushrooming around the globe.
By Lee Gardner
9/1/2010
Film:
Q&A with the
Animal Kingdom director
By Lee Gardner
9/1/2010
Film:
Joshua Grannell delivers up a near instant midnight-movie classic
By Bret McCabe
8/25/2010
Film:
Writer and director Lance Daly’s 2008 film Kisses looks a great deal like the cover of U2’s 1983 record War and feels the same too: young, angry Irish boy who has seen too much and feels more heartache than a kid should.
By Wendy Ward
8/18/2010
Film:
Director Aaron Schneider depends on a understated script and a stand-out cast for
Get Low
By Bret McCabe
8/18/2010
Film:
A simple kidnapping plan turns into something else in this elemental thriller
By Bret McCabe
8/11/2010
