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  • The Men Who Stare at Goats is as boring it sounds
    George Clooney-fronted film tries for farce but forgets the funny
    By J. Hoberman
    Wednesday, November 04
    Historical cataclysm produces conspiratorial thinking: Germany's loss in World War I, the JFK assassination, and 9/11 are all naturally... More >>
  • Film Highlight: Flame & Citron
    By Ella Taylor
    Wednesday, November 04
    Of all European nations, Denmark enjoys the nearest thing to a heroic record of resisting the Nazi occupiers—which adds both poignancy and... More >>
  • An Education and star Carey Mulligan get good marks
    Sundance hit is classily directed nostalgia trip
    By Scott Foundas
    Wednesday, October 28
    The title is a double entendre in An Education, the film version of British journalist Lynn Barber's memoir about the crash course she received... More >>
  • Film Highlight: Halloween
    By Jim Ridley
    Wednesday, October 28
    Pity the teenage movie fan who thinks Scream is the Rosetta stone of horror. If only he or she could've seen John Carpenter's peerless... More >>
  • Cirque du Freak is a really sucky vampire movie
    Film is half-assed attempt to sell popcorn
    By Aaron Hillis
    Wednesday, October 21
    Like the ominous fingernail moon early on in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, the bloodsucker trend is again in a waxing phase thanks to... More >>
  • Highlight: Revanche
    By Brian Miller
    Wednesday, October 21
    This deliberate, meticulous heist-gone-wrong flick eschews all the usual excitement of crime movies. Instead, Austrian writer-director Götz... More >>
  • Jonze's Where The Wild Things Are can't quite capture the beasts' spirit
    And so begins the mild rumpus
    J. Hoberman
    Wednesday, October 14
    Directed by Spike Jonze from a 400-word children's picture book first published in 1963, Where the Wild Things Are may be the toughest adaptation... More >>
  • Film Highlight: Secret of the Grain
    By Scott Foundas
    Wednesday, October 14
    In this remarkable third feature by the French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche, a 61-year-old shipyard worker in the port city of... More >>
  • Oak Street Cinema revives Jean-Pierre Melville's film noir masterpieces
    French director is known as forefather of French New Wave cinema
    Wednesday, October 07
    The French have shown a cinematic obsession with mobsters, jewel thieves, and petty criminals that is at least a match for American films, and... More >>
  • Film Highlight: Breakfast at Tiffany's
    By Kate Sullivan
    Wednesday, October 07
    In this 1961 classic, Audrey Hepburn and director Blake Edwards perfected the filmic prototype that so many would later copy: the story of a... More >>
  • Coen brothers take A Serious Man into a truly vicious realm
    This isn't your ordinary Coen-esque sadism
    By Ella Taylor
    Wednesday, September 30
    The Yiddish shtetl shtick that opens Joel and Ethan Coen's new movie—a Jewish peasant stumbles on an old Hasid who may or may not be an... More >>
  • Film Highlight: Afghan Star
    By Ella Taylor
    Wednesday, September 30
    If you think it's impossible to underestimate the cultural significance of American Idol, go see British filmmaker Havana Marking's documentary... More >>
  • Somers Town gets at the heart of the working class
    Film highlights ability of imagination to offset life's harsh realities
    By Scott Foundas
    Wednesday, September 23
    The title of Shane Meadows's Somers Town refers to the bleak, working-class neighborhood that lies in the shadow of London's St. Pancras train... More >>
  • Film Highlight: Sound Unseen
    Wednesday, September 23
    Minneapolis's annual showcase of films about music launches this month with 20 movies screening at theaters around town. This week, the festival... More >>
  • The Informant! gets cute with scandal and blows the story
    No exclamation point necessary, really
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Wednesday, September 16
    As evidenced by The Informant!, it's a hell of a tricky thing turning real-life pulp into floss sugar. The story of Archer Daniels Midland... More >>
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