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Mann on the Run Mann on the Run
Johnny Depp is superb as John Dillinger in the fast and furious 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>>
Published: July 02, 2009
Enthusiasm, Curbed Enthusiasm, Curbed
Not even the great Larry David can salvage Woody's shtick.
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>>
Published: July 02, 2009
Dying in Vain Dying in Vain
My Sister's Keeper is honest about illness, false about everything else.
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>>
Published: June 25, 2009
Victim of Circumstance Victim of Circumstance
The Proposal merges in the memory with a thousand other films just like it until it loses all identity of its own.
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>>
Published: June 18, 2009
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Why was this movie remade?
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>>
Published: June 11, 2009
Staggering Something Staggering Something
Have screenplay, will travel: Dave Eggers makes his film writing debut with Away We Go.
Midway through A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers's solipsistic, terminally-apologetic-for-being-solipsistic... More>>
Published: June 11, 2009
J'Accuse! J'Accuse!
Kirby Dick outs closeted pols and the media that protect them.
Director Kirby Dick doesn't actually stick his camera under any Capitol Hill bathroom stalls in the new documentary Outrage, but his goal is more... More>>
Published: June 11, 2009
Vegas, Babies Vegas, Babies
The Hangover is almost as funny as Old School.
What Fletch was to plaid-checked water-cooler wits in the '80s, what National Lampoon's Van Wilder was to college-bound douches at the dawn of... More>>
Published: June 04, 2009
Heaven Can Wait Heaven Can Wait
Hell is much more fun. Sam Raimi is back with Drag Me to Hell.
Sam Raimi wants to go home again. Often a drifting virtuoso in the years before finding his Spider Man gig, with Drag Me to Hell Raimi defaults... More>>
Published: May 28, 2009
Grounded Grounded
Up soars in entirely unexpected ways.
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>>
Published: May 28, 2009
The Con's on You The Con's on You
Despite its stylish trappings, The Brothers Bloom is no joke.
Writer-director Rian Johnson fashions a universe in which time is a fluid thing — where everything takes place in a familiar today and an... More>>
Published: May 28, 2009
Save Yourself! Save Yourself!
From McG's Terminator, that is. What a drag.
Both warning and advertisement, the Terminator films are technophobic teases, selling tickets by promising this decade's model of killing... More>>
Published: May 21, 2009
The Man, The Myth The Man, The Myth
Wandering Spain with the lone wolf of Jim Jarmusch's Limits of Control.
Jim Jarmusch's anonymous antihero hitman (French-Ivorian actor Isaach De Bankolé), identified in the credits of The Limits of Control as... More>>
Published: May 21, 2009
Behind the Metal Behind the Metal
Revealed: Everything you wanted to know — or didn't — about Canuck headbangers 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>>
Published: May 21, 2009
Man Drive Car Man Drive Car
Taxicab Confessions this isn't: Ramin Bahrani's quietly profound 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>>
Published: May 21, 2009
Dans la famille Dans la famille
Old money meets a new world in Olivier Assayas's Summer Hours.
Throughout his career, festival favorite Olivier Assayas has alternated between meta-pop, sometimes lurid, neo-new wave genre flicks and their... More>>
Published: May 21, 2009
Soderbergh's True Character Soderbergh's True Character
Sasha Grey plays the part — or a part — of herself in The Girlfriend Experience.
Steven Soderbergh has no particular stylistic signature, and one of the most uneven oeuvres imaginable. But he does have interests. The essence... More>>
Published: May 21, 2009
Angels & Demons with Tom Hanks Angels & Demons with Tom Hanks
Another treat for whacked-out male conspiracy theorists
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>>
Published: May 14, 2009
Rudo y Cursi: Beautiful Losers Rudo y Cursi: Beautiful Losers
This is not the kind of sports movie where everyone wins.
Not quite The Further Adventures of Cain & Abel, the second coming of Beavis & Butt-Head, King Kong vs. Godzilla Redux or Peyton Meets Eli, but... More>>
Published: May 14, 2009
Warp Factor 10 Warp Factor 10
J.J. Abrams's Star Trek: proof that a franchise can live long and prosper.
It's difficult for this long-time Trekkie to review J.J. Abrams's relaunching of the U.S.S. Enterprise. It's difficult to dispassionately dole... More>>
Published: May 07, 2009
Sucker Punch Sucker Punch
With a blunt and searching Iron Mike, Tyson delivers asurprisingly powerful blow.
The face of Mike Tyson stares out from the screen like a sentry — intent, sober, watchful. The camera sits close, the framing is tight and... More>>
Published: May 07, 2009
The Haunting in Rhode Island The Haunting in Rhode Island
Matthew McConaughey is scary bad in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.
Two weeks after jowly Matthew Perry transformed into pretty Zac Efron to relive his adolescence in 17 Again, Warner Bros. releases Ghosts of... More>>
Published: April 30, 2009
A Disciplined Duet A Disciplined Duet
Foxx and Downey's performances nearly save The Soloist from visual excess and shameless exploitation
The Soloist opens with newspapers thudding onto lawns, a quaint sight that makes the movie practically a period piece, even though the events... More>>
Published: April 23, 2009
Sugar Sidesteps Sports-Movie Clichés Sugar Sidesteps Sports-Movie Clichés
Boden and Fleck find the sweet spot.
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have transformed some of the saggiest, most clichéd genres with smarts, nonscreechy politics, superb acting and... More>>
Published: April 23, 2009
Dito Montiel's Fighting Lacks Punch Dito Montiel's Fighting Lacks Punch
Down for the Count
Writing about A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, the 2006 debut film by director Dito Montiel, I likened it to the sort of crude but fascinating... More>>
Published: April 23, 2009
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