Catherine Keener

Jane Fonda Deserves Better

Nothing's so funny in Peace, Love & Misunderstanding.

Trust

Justin Bieber Movie Reveals Pop Star Shaves, Has Hot Mom

"OMG you can reach and touch his face" ​Thursday night, Rocks Off went to the first midnight screening of Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, in 3D no less. Yes we had a chaperone, but the late hour and the theater's location wasn't conducive to masses of screaming girls. The location we saw it ... More >>

Momma's Boys

Peter Pan complexes collide in Cyrus.

Rich People Problems

But compelling ones! Liberal guilt's got soul in Please Give.

Let the Mild Rumpus Start!

Spike Jonze can't quite get the spirit of the Wild Things on screen.

It's a Wacky Life

Judd Apatow and Adam Sandler, together at last in Funny People.

A Disciplined Duet

Foxx and Downey's performances nearly save The Soloist from visual excess and shameless exploitation

Art Imitates Life Imitating Art in Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York

The World Is a Stage

Not to Be: Hamlet 2

Full of itself and not half as funny as it thinks it is, this movie is simply tragic

The Year In Film

Judd Apatow's pretty good year and much more

Here, Baby, Here

Playing down-on-her-luck, Amy Ryan's star rises.

Into the Wild

Sean Penn delivers a soulful road movie and refuses to define his subject

Repeat Offender

A second, slimmer Capote movie fails to improve on its predecessor

Lovely, Not Amazing

Four women struggle to face midlife in Friends with Money

Writes and Wrongs

In Capote, a murder leads to a masterpiece leads to an undoing

Vagina Music Roundup

A scintillating survey

Cherry on Top

The 40-Year-Old Virgin gets a heart-on while telling wonderfully dirty jokes

Lost in Translation

All talk and little action, The Interpreter doesn't even make sense

Rose in Bloom

The daughter of a hippie recluse grows to see the world her own way

When He Was Cruel

Neil LaBute tries to be nice but comes off very savage

Art and Soul

From our innermost insecurities to the wildest flights of fantasy, 2002 stimulated both heart and head

The Year of Living Dangerously

Cinema 2002 counterbalanced a treacherous world

Simulation Number One

Simone teaches us an important lesson: Movies aren't real, duh

Full Frontal Assault

Soderbergh shoots in digital and hits his target: Hollywood

Nemesisters

Sisters battle neuroses and each other in a film that's Lovely if not quite Amazing

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

A venomous troll and a poofy rhino fight for children's affection in Death to Smoochy

That Was Then...

Confusing Simpatico explores the guilt that haunts three friends who pulled a scam in their youth

Control Freaks

Being John Malkovich pulls all the right strings

Love Conflicts -- Nailing Neil

Your Friends' writer/director takes a wicked route through relationships

Brutality a LaBute

Director dissects depraved and depersonalized urbanites

Leonard's Canny Charmer

Out of Sight satisfies the eyes, mind and emotions

Blond Leading the Blind

In Tom DiCillo's new movie, it's not the blonds who are dumb

Peace and Lite

In Box of Moonlight, John Turturro finds himself ... in a too-precious movie

Unkind Cuts