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Halloween DVD Roundup: Looking for Horror in the 1980s

Apart from the stray slasher flick, Halloween is traditionally a dead spot on the Hollywood calendar. This week's big release? The Michael... More>>

By Brian Miller

Published: October 28, 2009

Act of God: Death From the Skies!

With her 2007 SIFF-favorite documentary Manufactured Landscapes, Canadian director Jennifer Baichwal proved she had an eye for the environmental... More>>

By Brian Miller

Published: October 28, 2009

Antichrist: Lars von Trier Continues to Annoy

Lars von Trier's doggedly outrageous, fearsomely ambitious two-hander is so desperate to make you feel something—if only a terrible... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: October 28, 2009

PICK Beeswax: Mumblecore Comes of Age

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>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: October 28, 2009

Chelsea on the Rocks: The Hotel Is Iconic. Not So the Movie

One New York institution (Abel Ferrara, b. 1951, the Bronx) regards another (The Hotel Chelsea, b. 1883, West 23rd Street) in Chelsea on the... More>>

By Nick Pinkerton

Published: October 28, 2009

Irene in Time: Henry Jaglom Refuses to Retire

Casually dismissed by those who place a premium on things like narrative, visual lucidity, and editorial smoothness, writer/director/emotional... More>>

By Scott Foundas

Published: October 28, 2009

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant: The Movie, Yes, Is in Need of Assistance

The vampire trend continues, but the only authentic bloodsuckers in Cirque du Freak are its producers and studio execs. Drawn from the... More>>

By Aaron Hillis

Published: October 21, 2009

PICK Crude: Our Thirsty SUVs Destroy Latin America

Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Why? Because it's thick with sludge. Moving briskly through a serpentine, stranger-than-fiction... More>>

By Scott Foundas

Published: October 21, 2009

PICK The Damned United: Michael Sheen Is Nothing Like Tony Blair

We call it soccer, but for the Brits it's football, and it's damn serious business. From 1968 to 1974, Brian Clough (Michael Sheen), a... More>>

By Chuck Wilson

Published: October 21, 2009

Good Hair: Chris Rock Mocks Locks

Don Imus' hateful, racist 2007 remarks about "nappy-headed hos" underscored the immense fear of and fascination with the hair follicles of... More>>

By Melissa Anderson

Published: October 21, 2009

The Headless Woman: Car Crash and Consequences

I'm a big admirer of Lucrecia Martel's 2002 La Ciénaga, and her latest also centers quite frankly on an exhausted Argentine woman of a... More>>

By Brian Miller

Published: October 21, 2009

Ong Bak 2: Tony Jaa Is Upstaged by Elephants

You're not always entirely sure what is happening in Tony Jaa's new movie, but there certainly is a lot of it. In this sequel-in-name-only, the... More>>

By Nicolas Rapold

Published: October 21, 2009

Where the Wild Things Are: Not Terrible, But in Need of Some Terror

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>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: October 14, 2009

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• You wish John Hurt made more movies. The Naked Civil Servant (1975), about Quentin Crisp, is reprised. Egyptian, noon, Sat., Oct. 17. Then... More>>

By Brian Miller

Published: October 14, 2009

Black Dynamite: Like Shaft Played for Laughs

Thoroughly silly and enjoyable for film geeks who know the old '70s blaxploitation canon, Black Dynamite suffers from the Grindhouse paradox: As... More>>

By Brian Miller

Published: October 14, 2009

Coco Before Chanel: Audrey Tautou Puts Career Before Love

Anne Fontaine's biopic gives us Belle-Époque Coco, opening in 1893 with a grim scene of the 10-year-old waif and her sister... More>>

By Melissa Anderson

Published: October 14, 2009

Five Minutes of Heaven: Liam Neeson Wrestles His Conscience to a Tie

Guy Hibbert's novel-writing process for Five Minutes is an interesting experiment. In 1975, Ulsterite Alistair Little killed Catholic Joe... More>>

By Vadim Rizov

Published: October 14, 2009

Law Abiding Citizen: Rent Death Wish Instead

This movie wastes no time: Before the opening credits, a man watches two home invaders slaughter his wife and daughter—and we don't even... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: October 14, 2009

More Than a Game: LeBron James Builds His Brand

This documentary follows Akron's Fab Four (later Five) kids on the basketball court, from their "Shooting Stars" traveling youth team through... More>>

By Nick Pinkerton

Published: October 14, 2009

New York, I Love You: Anthology Films? Not So Much

Billed as a "collective feature film," this is the second in the "Cities of Love" series, an idea that has so far proved better in theory than... More>>

By Michelle Orange

Published: October 14, 2009

A Serious Man: The Coen Brothers’ Loathsome Latest

The Yiddish shtetl shtick that opens Joel and Ethan Coen's new movie—a Jewish peasant stumbles on an old Hasid who may or may not be a... More>>

By Ella Taylor

Published: October 07, 2009

Free Style: Motocross 101

Ostensibly, Free Style is one of those uplifting family movies built around a niche sport a la 1993's rollerblading cash-in Airborne, with an... More>>

By Vadim Rizov

Published: October 07, 2009

PICK Still Walking: A Japanese Favorite Returns From SIFF

What's remarkable about Still Walking, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda's seventh feature film, is that the familiar comes across as fresh.... More>>

By Anthony Kaufman

Published: October 07, 2009

Local Sightings Film Festival: An I-5 Road Trip and Other New Movies Debut

Coming full circle, as it were, the opening-night feature for this year's Local Sightings Film Festival was made possible by a fortuitous... More>>

By Brian Miller

Published: September 30, 2009

The Boys Are Back: Clive Owen Learns to Cook and Nurture

In the Oscar derby for Best Actor, is it better to die or to grieve? Clive Owen opts for the latter in this strained, sentimental adaptation of a... More>>

By Brian Miller

Published: September 30, 2009