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Loosies has colorful characters but very little character Loosies
By Nick Schager, February 09, 2012
Loosies has a bevy of colorful character actors — from Michael Madsen and William Forsythe to Vincent Gallo and Joe Pantoliano — but... More>>
The 2012 Oscar-nominated short films offer something for everyone Oscars
By Tim Grierson, February 09, 2012
This year's Academy Award-nominated shorts offer a little something for every viewing temperament — though some categories require sitting... More>>
A Separation is an urgent courtroom drama that puts you in the jury box A Separation
By J. Hoberman, February 02, 2012
A Separation — which just received Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Film — is an urgently shot... More>>
Harry Belafonte documentary Sing Your Song is rich in archival footage Sing Your Song
By Melissa Anderson, February 02, 2012
Produced by his youngest daughter, Gina, this profile of Harry Belafonte, foregrounding the 84-year-old actor and singer's political activism, is... More>>
Minimalist horror flick The Innkeepers is free of gluttonous effects The Innkeepers
Also read: Interview with director Ti West
By Nick Pinkerton, February 02, 2012
Ti West, the 34-year-old writer-director of The Innkeepers, has spent the past several years steadily toiling his way through the ranks of horror... More>>
Man on a Ledge is a leap into the familiar Man on a Ledge
By Brian Miller, January 26, 2012
The hero of the red-herring heist flick Man on a Ledge draws two reactions from the Manhattan throng beneath his 21st-floor perch on a Midtown... More>>
Glenn Close succumbs to pitfalls in Albert Nobbs Albert Nobbs
By Melissa Anderson, January 26, 2012
Fulfilling a mission that has consumed her for almost two decades, Glenn Close — as producer, co-writer and lead — brings to the... More>>
Haywire puts the impact back into screen violence Haywire
By Nick Pinkerton, January 19, 2012
There's a point in Haywire when the film's protagonist, ex-Marine Mallory Kane (Gina Carano), gone rogue from her job as hired muscle for a... More>>
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close feels like Oscar-trolling 9/11 kitsch Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
By Nick Pinkerton, January 19, 2012
Director Stephen Daldry has never met a Big Theme he didn't like: After 2002's The Hours, a lugubrious women's-problem picture touching on AIDS... More>>
Joyful Noise is a holy hot mess of the sacred and inane Joyful Noise
By Melissa Anderson, January 12, 2012
A holy hot mess of the sacred and the inane, Joyful Noise, about a small-town Southern gospel choir, lifts from Usher's "Yeah!" to give us this... More>>
Roman Polanski's Carnage is a predictable study of social (mis)behavior
By Karina Longworth, January 12, 2012
Roman Polanski's adaptation of Yasmina Reza's hit play, Carnage, stars Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Christoph Waltz and Kate Winslet as two sets... More>>
Pariah is a moving story of coming of age and coming out Pariah
By Melissa Anderson, January 12, 2012
The first ten minutes of Pariah — Dee Rees's funny, moving, nuanced and impeccably acted first feature, in which coming of age and coming... More>>
Eleven movies to look forward to in 2012 Red Tails
By Karina Longworth, January 05, 2012
We know — you're excited about The Dark Knight Rises. And The Avengers. And The Hunger Games. So are we. We're also excited about a lot of... More>>
Outrage depicts the yakuza with bemused irony Outrage
By Nick Pinkerton, January 05, 2012
Takeshi Kitano's latest finds the actor-director returning to the familiar terrain of the yakuza film after recent farces (Achilles and the... More>>
The bombastic War Horse is classic Spielberg War Horse
By J. Hoberman, December 29, 2011
A doggedly overwrought production less felt than facile, Steven Spielberg's War Horse is an essentially uninvolving prestige adaptation. It... More>>
A Dangerous Method is both an intriguing narrative and a splendid love story A Dangerous Method
By J. Hoberman, December 29, 2011
A Dangerous Method, the title of David Cronenberg's viscerally cerebral new film, is something of an understatement. As cataclysmic as it is,... More>>
Carl Colby paints a compelling portrait of his father in The Man Nobody Knew The Man Nobody Knew
By AARON HILLIS, December 29, 2011
With a chewy title to tip us off, director Carl Colby's compelling and tricky portrait of his late pop, The Man Nobody Knew, streamlines and... More>>
The U.S. version of Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is leaner, meaner, more stylish The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
By J. Hoberman, December 22, 2011
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is hardly a personal project. Still, David Fincher's sveltely malevolent remake of the 2009 Swedish blockbuster... More>>
The Artist is an undeniably charming homage to 1920s Hollywood The Artist
By Melissa Anderson, December 22, 2011
An undeniably charming homage to Hollywood in the late 1920s, The Artist might also be the first silent film many of its viewers have ever seen.... More>>
We Bought a Zoo
By Robert Wilsonky, December 22, 2011
When I told someone I was off to a screening of We Bought a Zoo the other day, the response was an eye roll. The reaction's understandable: Save... More>>
Tomboy sensitively explores a freedom from gender codes Tomboy
By Melissa Anderson, December 15, 2011
A sensitive portrait of childhood just before pubescence, Tomboy, the second film by writer-director Céline Sciamma, astutely explores the... More>>
The latest Sherlock Holmes is more James Bond than enigmatic sleuth Sherlock Holmes
By Nick Pinkerton, December 15, 2011
Although supplying boy's adventure thrills on the side, Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories are remarkable for how they make the process... More>>
Shame
By J. Hoberman, December 15, 2011
Steve McQueen's first two films both star Michael Fassbender, feature virtually interchangeable titles, and are nearly as grueling to watch as... More>>
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a brooding, fluidly crafted adaptation of the novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a brooding, fluidly crafted adaptation of the novel
By J. Hoberman, December 08, 2011
John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, the 1974 spy novel generally regarded as the writer's finest, is predicated on a pair of... More>>
The Other F Word is a half-poignant, half-absurd punk-rock-dad doc The Other F Word
By Rob Harvilla, December 08, 2011
Flea almost cries. Twice. There's your four-word summation of The Other F Word, a half-poignant, half-absurd documentary on punk-rocker dads,... More>>
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