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Leashed Lightning in Bolt Disney's latest toon is a starry dog story
With his blazing white coat and pig-pink ears, to say nothing of the zigzag of lightning cut into his flank, the eponymous canine lead of... More>>
Published: November 20, 2008
Quantum of Solace Is Neither Shaken Nor Stirred Marc Forster has a license to confuse and bore
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 13, 2008
Middlebrow French Melodrama in I've Loved You So Long Kristin Scott Thomas shines as a child killer
Kristin Scott Thomas has gotten so locked into playing tragic victims or frigid grandes dames that few remember the actress got her big break as... More>>
Published: November 13, 2008
Soul Men Pays Fitting Tribute to the Late Bernie Mac Blues Brothers
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 06, 2008
Big Daddies in Role Models This movie is smarter and bawdier than your average boys-to-men movie
Paul Rudd wears the constant look of glazed-eye amusement; everything seems to tickle him, even that which annoys or frustrates or disappoints... More>>
Published: November 06, 2008
Art Imitates Life Imitating Art in Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York The World Is a Stage
If you traveled the length of John Malkovich's medulla oblongata, hung a sharp left at the desk where Beckett's Krapp recorded his last tape, and... More>>
Published: November 06, 2008
Still Catching the Wave with A Girl Cut in Two French master Claude Chabrol keeps doing what he does best
From the standpoint of 2008, the French new wave that broke half a century ago is a towering monument to a particular moment — a solitary... More>>
Published: November 06, 2008
Kevin Smith Blows His Wad with Zack and Miri Make a Porno Strictly Softcore
Ostensibly, Zack and Miri Make a Porno should be money-shot Kevin Smith: Pals make a porn to pay the bills and, in the process of gettin' it on... More>>
Published: October 30, 2008
Angelina Jolie takes on a serial killer and the system in Changeling Go Ahead, Make Her Day
On a double bill with L.A. Confidential, Chinatown or just about any film made after 1970 about institutional corruption in Los Angeles, Clint... More>>
Published: October 30, 2008
We Rent the Night: Pride and Glory New York cop drama holds the audience hostage
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 23, 2008
The Secret Life of Bees Is All Honey, No Sting Buzz Kill
A young woman fights off her brutal husband; a gun goes off; a marble spins on the floor where a toddler sits unattended. From B-movie... More>>
Published: October 16, 2008
Bush's Brain: W. Oliver Stone assigns motive to Dubya'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 16, 2008
The Other Sister: Rachel Getting Married Anne Hathaway makes a compelling bad girl in Jonathan Demme's pedestrian family drama
Those who believe that Jonathan Demme went all soft with Philadelphia and never recovered may not be reassured by his latest movie, an ensemble... More>>
Published: October 16, 2008
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>>
Published: October 09, 2008
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>>
Published: October 02, 2008
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>>
Published: October 02, 2008
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>>
Published: October 02, 2008
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>>
Published: October 02, 2008
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>>
Published: October 02, 2008
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>>
Published: September 25, 2008
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>>
Published: September 25, 2008
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>>
Published: September 25, 2008
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>>
Published: September 18, 2008
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>>
Published: September 18, 2008
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>>
Published: September 11, 2008
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