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Gran Torino: A summation of all that is Eastwood? Film seems one of Clint Eastwood's most personal
Walt Kowalski growls a lot—a dyspeptic rumble that wells up from deep inside his belly when he catches sight of his midriff-baring teenage... More>>
Published: January 07, 2009
Film Highlight: The Wrestler
The Wrestler may be plenty visceral, but it's no more a sports movie than professional wrestling is a competitive sport. Chronic over-reacher... More>>
Published: January 07, 2009
Kate and Leo reunite for suburban hell that is Revolutionary Road The only sinking ship in this storyline is the couples' marriage
No writer ever gazed deeper or more despairingly into the prison of middle-class American conformity than Richard Yates, which may explain why... More>>
Published: December 31, 2008
Film Highlight: Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
This 1984 telling of the classic Astrid Lindgren fantasy deigns to bring out the wild child in all of us. Born into a clan of raucous marauders,... More>>
Published: December 31, 2008
Tom Cruise plots to kill Hitler in his latest impossible mission Movie is good idea but not executed well—kind of like Cruise himself
Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg—a lot of name for a lot of guy. Born into aristocracy in 1907, he was a soldier by the age... More>>
Published: December 24, 2008
Film Highlight: L.A. Confidential
Naturally, this Hollywood adaptation of James Ellroy's epic crime novel is slicker than the source, but it keeps a trace of the author's soul:... More>>
Published: December 24, 2008
Will Smith falters with depressed character in phony-feeling film Seven Pounds Sans Happyness writer Steve Conrad, weighty movie limps onto screen one man down
Two years ago, Will Smith and Italian director Gabriele Muccino released The Pursuit of Happyness, one of the most underrated of recent Hollywood... More>>
Published: December 17, 2008
Film Highlight: A Christmas Story
The venerable Riverview celebrates its 60th anniversary with a showing of A Christmas Story. Clearly, It's a Wonderful Life is the Rolls-Royce of... More>>
Published: December 17, 2008
Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon explores Watergate's aftermath Film depicts historic ego clash between president, interviewer
Has any president since Lincoln inspired more movies, TV miniseries, and operas than Richard Nixon? As Nixon's beetle brows, ski nose, and... More>>
Published: December 10, 2008
Film Highlight: A Christmas Tale
A Christmas Tale feels like all 12 days of seasonal merriment, and then some. This comic, ultimately touching family melodrama is a heady plum... More>>
Published: December 10, 2008
Randall Miller's Nobel Son is a tone-deaf trainwreck Feel-good filmmaker goes bad ... very bad
Nobody in the film industry wants to be pigeonholed. Personal assistants long to be studio heads, gaffers want to direct, and name actors... More>>
Published: December 03, 2008
Film Highlight: Sunset Blvd.
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>>
Published: December 03, 2008
Australia makes you want to take Jackman, Kidman out back Baz Luhrmann's film is sorely predictable
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>>
Published: November 26, 2008
Film Highlight: Milk
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>>
Published: November 26, 2008
Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire lets you leave the theater a winner Film mates Bollywood and Hollywood with feel-good style
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>>
Published: November 19, 2008
Film Highlight: Bolt
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>>
Published: November 19, 2008
Marc Foster's Quantum of Solace renders James Bond pointless Director has license to confuse and bore in this unwatchable mess
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>>
Published: November 12, 2008
Film Highlight: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
During World War II, a Nazi officer (David Thewlis) receives a promotion and moves his wife (Vera Farmiga), teenage daughter (Amber Beattie), and... More>>
Published: November 12, 2008
Bernie Mac's comedy lives on with Soul Men Mac channels his authentic comic self in his last film
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>>
Published: November 05, 2008
Film Highlight: Synecdoche, New York
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>>
Published: November 05, 2008
Kevin Smith blows his wad with Zack and Miri New film's gross-out tactics pander to audience
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>>
Published: October 29, 2008
Film Highlight: Breakfast with Scot
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>>
Published: October 29, 2008
Pride and Glory cop drama unsaved by Norton, Farrell Movie reads Miranda Rights to optimistic audiences
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>>
Published: October 22, 2008
Film Highlight: Sound Unseen
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>>
Published: October 22, 2008
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?
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>>
Published: October 15, 2008
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