Reviews

  • Randall Miller's Nobel Son is a tone-deaf trainwreck
    Feel-good filmmaker goes bad ... very bad
    By Tim Grierson
    Wednesday, December 03
    Nobody in the film industry wants to be pigeonholed. Personal assistants long to be studio heads, gaffers want to direct, and name actors... More >>
  • Film Highlight: Sunset Blvd.
    By Rob Nelson
    Wednesday, December 03
    The Parkway kicks off its Monday-night film noir series with Sunset Blvd. Narrated by a dead man, predating other mean-old-broad thrillers by a... More >>
  • Australia makes you want to take Jackman, Kidman out back
    Baz Luhrmann's film is sorely predictable
    By Ella Taylor
    Wednesday, November 26
    You don't have to have been raised on colonial Brit lit, classic melodramas, Westerns, and war movies, or Gone With the Wind to figure out the... More >>
  • Film Highlight: Milk
    By J. Hoberman
    Wednesday, November 26
    Gus Van Sant has never been what you'd call a risk-averse filmmaker, but he directs his Harvey Milk biopic so carefully you'd think he had a Ming... More >>
  • Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire lets you leave the theater a winner
    Film mates Bollywood and Hollywood with feel-good style
    By Scott Foundas
    Wednesday, November 19
    Who wants to be a millionaire? Well, who wouldn't in this economy, even if the currency in question is rupees and winning the loot means being... More >>
  • Film Highlight: Bolt
    By Ella Taylor
    Wednesday, November 19
    Like every other kids' movie coming off the studio line these days, the charming and well-crafted animated feature Bolt, about a celebrity pooch... More >>
  • Marc Foster's Quantum of Solace renders James Bond pointless
    Director has license to confuse and bore in this unwatchable mess
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Wednesday, November 12
    Those of us who adored Casino Royale, the 2006 reboot of the haggard, self-parodic James Bond franchise, had some trouble trying to decide where... More >>
  • Film Highlight: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
    By Chuck Wilson
    Wednesday, November 12
    During World War II, a Nazi officer (David Thewlis) receives a promotion and moves his wife (Vera Farmiga), teenage daughter (Amber Beattie), and... More >>
  • Bernie Mac's comedy lives on with Soul Men
    Mac channels his authentic comic self in his last film
    By Chuck Wilson
    Wednesday, November 05
    If the dream of every comic is to have his humor live on long after he's left the stage, then the late Bernie Mac has exited this world on a high... More >>
  • Film Highlight: Synecdoche, New York
    By Scott Foundas
    Wednesday, November 05
    If you traveled the length of John Malkovich's medulla oblongata and walked through the adjoining door of the interstellar hotel room at the end... More >>
  • Kevin Smith blows his wad with Zack and Miri
    New film's gross-out tactics pander to audience
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Wednesday, October 29
    Ostensibly, Zack and Miri Make a Porno should be a money shot for Kevin Smith: Pals make a porn to pay the bills and, in the process of gettin'... More >>
  • Film Highlight: Breakfast with Scot
    By Chuck Wilson
    Wednesday, October 29
    Like a diva in training, 11-year-old Scot (Noah Bernett) spells his name with one T, wears a feather boa, and isn't shy about kissing boys at... More >>
  • Pride and Glory cop drama unsaved by Norton, Farrell
    Movie reads Miranda Rights to optimistic audiences
    By Robert Wilonsky
    Wednesday, October 22
    Pride and Glory doesn't make any effort to disguise precisely what it is: a barely held-together string of vignettes lifted from every cop movie... More >>
  • Film Highlight: Sound Unseen
    Wednesday, October 22
    The annual festival of films about music returns for its ninth year with a lineup of nearly 20 entries. The opening-night film, Garrison Keillor:... More >>
  • Oliver Stone got the W but missed T and F
    Famous director assigns motive to Bush's M.O., but at this point, who cares?
    By J. Hoberman
    Wednesday, October 15
    W. may be less frenzied than the usual Oliver Stone sensory bombardment, but in revisiting the early '00s by way of the late '60s, this... More >>
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