What would black people do without big-hearted white people?
By Melissa Anderson
Thursday, November 19
Another poor, massive, uneducated African-American teenager lumbers onto screens this month, two weeks after Precious and obviously timed as a... More >>
Pirate Radio gets a tame U.S. release, but we still love rock and roll.
By Robert Wilonsky
Thursday, November 12
Seven months after its theatrical release in the UK and two months after its DVD debut there, Pirate Radio washes ashore in U.S. theaters with a... More >>
But did the Mayans happen to say if Palin will survive 2012?
By Chuck Wilson
Thursday, November 12
Completing his multi-film vendetta against the world's tourist trade, German-born director Roland Emmerich sends the mother of all storms to... More >>
We don't mean to sound paranoid, but: Did aliens abduct George Clooney's sense of humor?
By J. Hoberman
Thursday, November 05
Historical cataclysm produces conspiratorial thinking: Germany's loss in World War I, the JFK assassination and 9/11 are all naturally understood... More >>
It's not hard to see how the director of Forrest Gump would be thought a good fit to adapt the dearly beloved (and much lampooned) Dickens tale... More >>
An Education and its star, Carey Mulligan, get good marks.
By Scott Foundas
Thursday, October 29
The title is a double entendre in An Education, the film version of British journalist Lynn Barber's memoir about the crash course she received... More >>
Cirque du Freak tries to get in on the trend. Fails.
By Aaron Hillis
Thursday, October 22
Like the ominous fingernail moon early on in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, the bloodsucker trend is again in a waxing phase thanks to... More >>
Somers Town gets at the heart of working-class London. And might sell some train tickets, too.
By Scott Foundas
Thursday, October 22
The title of Shane Meadows's Somers Town refers to the bleak, working-class neighborhood that lies in the shadow of London's St Pancras train... More >>
Spike Jonze can't quite get the spirit of the Wild Things on screen.
By J. Hoberman
Thursday, October 15
Directed by Spike Jonze from a 400-word children's picture book first published in 1963, Where the Wild Things Are may be the toughest adaptation... More >>
With Andrew Bujalski's sure hand, the still-laid-back and lo-fi mumblecore matures with Beeswax.
By J. Hoberman
Thursday, October 08
Though no one's idea of an action film, Andrew Bujalski's Beeswax feels less charmingly aimless than its radically slight precursors Funny Ha Ha... More >>
Attn: Wall Street. Michael Moore is a Marxist (but he's still selling the same old shtick).
By Ella Taylor
Thursday, October 01
The ushers at a packed screening of Michael Moore's latest movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, came proudly decked out in T-shirts bearing slogans... More >>