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Eddie Adams, the late photographer at the center of An Unlikely Weapon, which opens July 2, was a romantic of an especially cantankerous sort.... More>>

By Michael Roberts

Published: July 02, 2009

Public Enemies

They're all about where people come from. Nobody seems to wonder where somebody's going." So says the Depression-era bank-robber-cum-folk-hero... More>>

By Scott Foundas

Published: July 02, 2009

Whatever Works

Character is destiny — at least for Woody Allen's Whatever Works. Allen's exercise in Woody Allen nostalgia opens with a snatch of Groucho... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: July 02, 2009

My Sister's Keeper

Eleven-year-old Anna Fitzgerald's parents didn't just plan for her — they customized her in utero, with the specific end of providing spare... More>>

By Nick Pinkerton

Published: June 25, 2009

Revanche at Starz

Revanche defied both the odds and the standard formula in earning Austria a richly deserved Oscar nomination for best foreign film. Director... More>>

By Michael Roberts

Published: June 25, 2009

The Proposal

Fifteen minutes after seeing The Proposal, I'd forgotten I'd seen The Proposal. Well, that's not entirely true: By then, it had simply merged in... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: June 18, 2009

Throw Down Your Heart at Starz

"I just want to blend in," claims banjoist Béla Fleck early in Throw Down Your Heart, a documentary about his musical journey to Africa... More>>

By Michael Roberts

Published: June 18, 2009

Away We Go

Midway through A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers's solipsistic, terminally-apologetic-for-being-solipsistic... More>>

By Scott Foundas

Published: June 11, 2009

Departures

The stately Japanese movie Departures comes to theaters trailing some justified ill will for having trounced the critical favorite, Israel's... More>>

By Ella Taylor

Published: June 11, 2009

Big Man Japan at the Esquire

Like Hancock, the Will Smith flick from last year, 2007's Big Man Japan tweaks the superhero myth by focusing on a shaggy, thoroughly... More>>

Published: June 11, 2009

The Taking of Pelham 123

Want to know how a city works? Start by watching 1974's The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, a primer in which subway hijackers test how long... More>>

By Jim Ridley

Published: June 11, 2009

The Hangover

What Fletch was to plaid-clad watercooler wits in the '80s, what National Lampoon's Van Wilder was to college-bound douches at the dawn of Dubya,... More>>

By Jim Ridley

Published: June 04, 2009

Anvil! The Story of Anvil

And now for the story of Lips and the dildo. Back in the late '70s, before Guitar Hero III or Rock of Love 2 or even VH1, a jolly Canadian... More>>

By Camille Dodero

Published: June 04, 2009

Standards of Ethical Conduct at the Bug Theatre

Standards of Ethical Conduct, premiering on Saturday, June 6, is the sort of local production worth rooting for, despite its many imperfections.... More>>

By Michael Roberts

Published: June 04, 2009

Summer Film Preview

"The cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake," Alfred Hitchcock once said, and if that's true — and who are we to dispute the... More>>

By Chuck Wilson

Published: June 04, 2009

First of all, Up is not a movie about a cranky old coot who, with the help of a roly-poly Boy Scout, finds his inner child during a series of... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: May 28, 2009

Three Monkeys at Starz

Nuri Bilge Ceylan, the auteur behind Three Monkeys, didn't win the best-director bauble at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival for his hyperkinetic... More>>

By Michael Roberts

Published: May 28, 2009

Terminator Salvation

Both warning and advertisement, the Terminator films are technophobic teases, selling tickets by promising this decade's model of killing... More>>

By Nick Pinkerton

Published: May 21, 2009

Every Single Step

Imagine having reached the highest level of skill in your field through hours of grueling work that began when you were four years old. Now... More>>

By Juliet Wittman

Published: May 21, 2009

Rumba at Starz

Rumba, which begins its run on Friday, May 22, following a Wednesday-evening preview, is a loopy slab of filmic absurdism that has more in common... More>>

By Michael Roberts

Published: May 21, 2009

Angels & Demons

At the tail end of The Da Vinci Code, having traipsed around scenic Paris and London for over two hours to find out whether the Holy Grail was... More>>

By Ella Taylor

Published: May 14, 2009

The Limits of Control

Jim Jarmusch's anonymous anti-hero hitman (French-Ivorian actor Isaach De Bankolé), identified in the credits of The Limits of Control as... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: May 14, 2009

Run Lola Run at the Esquire

The late Pauline Kael named her 1968 collection of film reviews Kiss Kiss Bang Bang in celebration of movies at their most visceral – the... More>>

By Michael Roberts

Published: May 14, 2009

Star Trek

It's difficult for this longtime Trekkie to review J.J. Abrams's relaunching of the U.S.S. Enterprise. It's difficult to dispassionately dole out... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: May 07, 2009

Goodbye Solo

At 73, the Memphis-born actor, stuntman, former U.S. Marine and Golden Gloves boxer Red West has the stoic, leathery repose of a barfly on a John... More>>

By Scott Foundas

Published: May 07, 2009