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We Can Believe In Body of Lies We Can Believe In Body of Lies
Ridley Scott's latest is the post-9/11, tech-savvy terror thriller we deserve
A new kind of war movie for a new kind of war, Body of Lies is about the War on Terror as it is being waged on the ground, in the air, but most... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: October 09, 2008
Two Mediocre Adaptations: How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist Two Mediocre Adaptations: How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
Two movies by directors who really should have known better
There are copious ways to link How to Lose Friends & Alienate People and Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist. Both are based on feather-light books... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: October 02, 2008
Fade to White: Blindness Fade to White: Blindness
Adap nails the bleak before succumbing to the sap
The most recent example of bleak chic, Fernando Meirelles's mostly harrowing adaptation of José Saramago's international bestseller... More>>
By Anthony, Kaufman
Published: October 02, 2008
Bill Maher Makes an Adolescent Case against Religion in Religulous Bill Maher Makes an Adolescent Case against Religion in Religulous
Oh, God! You Devil's Advocate
Redolent of Roman decadence and authority gone mad, the title Religulous rolls pleasingly off the tongue. But Bill Maher's one-man stand-up... More>>
By J. Hoberman
Published: October 02, 2008
Old West: Appaloosa Old West: Appaloosa
Ed Harris goes traditional
"'Course he's willing to die. You think we do this kinda work 'cause we scared to die?" So speaks Virgil Cole (Ed Harris) about his sidekick... More>>
By Chuck Wilson
Published: October 02, 2008
Opposites Attract in Chris & Don Opposites Attract in Chris & Don
Portrait of the artist as a young man (and his lover as an old one)
A glint in his eye and a grin on his lips, artist Don Bachardy looks into the camera and explains the dynamic of his three-decade relationship... More>>
By Ernest Hardy
Published: October 02, 2008
Very Minor: Miracle at St. Anna Very Minor: Miracle at St. Anna
No matter the run time and budget, Spike Lee's WWII drama is an epic bore
On some level, you've got to hand it to Spike Lee. There are probably less than a handful of directors working in Hollywood today who could put... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: September 25, 2008
Sex Crime: Choke Sex Crime: Choke
This adaptation needs the Heimlich
There's a whole lotta fucking going on in Choke, Clark Gregg's adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's first-person novel about a sex addict named Victor... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: September 25, 2008
Royally Screwed: The Duchess Royally Screwed: The Duchess
Lady Georgiana Spencer, cheated in life and in casting
The Duchess is the best women's movie of the summer. Don't get too excited: Sex and the City, Mamma Mia! and The Women set the bar so dismally... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: September 25, 2008
A Dentist's Job: Ghost Town A Dentist's Job: Ghost Town
Ricky Gervais sees dead people. And they bring him to life
It takes a good while for Ricky Gervais to warm up; it takes even longer for the audience to warm to Ricky Gervais. During the opening minutes of... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: September 18, 2008
Neil LaBute's Lakeview Terrace Neil LaBute's Lakeview Terrace
Racial tension, above and below the surface
Earlier this year, when I found myself assigned to jury duty on a drug-related trial at the Los Angeles Superior Court, our jury foreman turned... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: September 18, 2008
Oh, Canada Oh, Canada
Midway through the Toronto film fest, and things are looking bleak
If this year's Toronto International Film Festival had a subtitle, it could be "When Good Directors Go Bad." At least that's what it has felt... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: September 11, 2008
Intolerable Cruelty: Burn After Reading Intolerable Cruelty: Burn After Reading
Remarkably consistent, the Coens make another mockery
Masters of the carefully crafted cheap shot, Joel and Ethan Coen have built a career on flippancy. Given their refusal to take anything seriously... More>>
By J. Hoberman
Published: September 11, 2008
Ladies Light in The Women Ladies Light in The Women
Once grand, this story is now just another chick flick
"What do you think this is?" cries a lady who lunches in Diane English's remake of George Cukor's The Women. "Some kind of '30s movie?" Even... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: September 11, 2008
About Boy A About Boy A
What happens when a child murderer grows up?
So fuckin' delicate, people...they die so easily," says a supporting character to the titular Boy A, whose barely audible two-word reply... More>>
By Ernest Hardy
Published: September 04, 2008
Logic Goes Out with the Intrigue in Ho-Hum Logic Goes Out with the Intrigue in Ho-Hum "Thriller" Traitor
Spy Vs. Why
Despite his reputation as that rarest of creatures — a Hollywood intellectual — new evidence suggests that Steve Martin... More>>
By Chuck Wilson
Published: August 28, 2008
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired Argues the Case... Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired Argues the Case...
Was Polanski a pedophile or merely a patsy?
Along its winding road to crucifying the American judiciary, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired — which aired to mostly warm reviews on HBO... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: August 28, 2008
The Edge of Heaven Can Wait The Edge of Heaven Can Wait
Storylines and cultures crash in this German/Turkish import — and isn't it arty?
The Edge of Heaven disembarks stateside still flush from an award-reaping Eurasian tour. That the European Film Awards tossed Fatih Akin's... More>>
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: August 28, 2008
Hard-Knock Life in Frozen River Hard-Knock Life in Frozen River
This movie may lay it on a bit thick, but Melissa Leo nails the role of a struggling single mom
When I heard that Quentin Tarantino handed the Grand Jury Prize for best feature to Courtney Hunt's Frozen River at this year's Sundance Film... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: August 21, 2008
Not to Be: Hamlet 2 Not to Be: Hamlet 2
Full of itself and not half as funny as it thinks it is, this movie is simply tragic
In its final ten minutes, Hamlet 2 is little more than chaos, noise and nonsense, and those are ten perfectly enjoyable minutes. It's hard to... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 21, 2008
Schoolhouse: The Rocker Schoolhouse: The Rocker
Rainn Wilson comedy is more childish pop than hardcore funny
The Rocker bears the decidedly unmistakable odor of something made in 1983 and left on the shelf a good 25 years. Which isn't to suggest that... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 21, 2008
Apocalypse Whatever: Tropic Thunder Apocalypse Whatever: Tropic Thunder
Ben Stiller's Hollywood send-up lacks firepower
Early buzz out of Hollywood pegged Tropic Thunder, directed and co-written by star Ben Stiller, as the end-all and be-all of movie-biz parodies... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 14, 2008
Mighty Aphrodites in Vicky Cristina Barcelona Mighty Aphrodites in Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson join forces — and some other stuff — in Woody Allen's (winning!) latest
Perhaps this review should begin with a disclaimer: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen's 39th film as writer-director, will do little to... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: August 14, 2008
Army of One in Alexandra Army of One in Alexandra
A Russian grandmother visits the troops, and brings light to their misguided mission in Chechnya
Spare yet tactile, a mysterious mixture of lightness and gravity, Alexander Sokurov's Alexandra is founded on contradiction. Musing on war in... More>>
By J. Hoberman
Published: August 14, 2008
Towering Cinema in Man on Wire Towering Cinema in Man on Wire
Philippe Petit's World Trade Center tightrope walk was made for the movies
Even as the first girders were laid in the mid-1960s, something about the World Trade Center — that twin-pronged erection jutting from the... More>>
By Jim Ridley
Published: August 14, 2008
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