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Slumdog Millionaire: Like Charles Dickens in Mumbai

Who wants to be a millionaire? Well, who wouldn't in this economy, even if the currency in question is rupees and winning the loot means being... More>>

By Scott Foundas

Published: November 19, 2008

PICK Bolt: John Travolta Goes to the Dog

Like every other kids' movie coming off the studio line these days, the charming and well-crafted animated feature Bolt, about a celebrity pooch... More>>

By Ella Taylor

Published: November 19, 2008

PICK A Christmas Tale: And You Thought Your Holiday Gatherings Were Messy?

Twelve days of seasonal merriment, and then some. This comic, ultimately touching family melodrama is a heady plum pudding of a... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: November 19, 2008

Days and Clouds: More Problems From Italy

Elsa (Margherita Buy) and Michele (Antonio Albanese) have a problem: They're a married couple in a middlebrow arthouse movie. When Elsa gets her... More>>

By Vadim Rizov

Published: November 19, 2008

Fuel: One Suggestion for Our Petroleum Addiction

Screened at SIFF as Fields of Fuel (now expanded with new material), this documentary about the virtues of biofuel heavily interpolates the life... More>>

By Brian Miller

Published: November 19, 2008

PICK JCVD: Belgian Tough Guy Just Wants Respect

JCVD wastes little time working itself into a pretzel. The action begins under the credits with Jean-Claude Van Damme working his way through a... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: November 19, 2008

Quantum of Solace: Not So Royale as the Last 007 Flick

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>>

By Robert Wilsonsky

Published: November 12, 2008

Festival of New Cinema From Spain: Where’s Javier?

Javier Bardem must be in here someplace. Yet skimming through my clutch of preview DVDs, I failed to find him. This showcase of eight Iberian... More>>

By Brian Miller

Published: November 12, 2008

PICK Let the Right One In: Adorable Swedish Child Vampires in Love

This lucid Swedish indie gem, adapted for the screen by John Ajvide Lindqvist from his novel and directed with imagination and restraint by Tomas... More>>

By Elena Oumano

Published: November 12, 2008

Bush on Film: Will He Have a Screen Life After W.?

Oliver Stone's surprisingly sympathetic biopic W. isn't the only Bush movie at the multiplex. An American Carol opened last month without press... More>>

By Brian Miller

Published: November 05, 2008

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: The Holocaust Made Easy

During World War II, a Nazi officer (David Thewlis) receives a promotion and moves his wife (Vera Farmiga), teenage daughter (Amber Beattie), and... More>>

By Chuck Wilson

Published: November 05, 2008

Flow: We Must Protect Our Precious Planetary Fluids!

One of those charming little documentaries that make you question whether the human race is really worth preserving, Irena Salina's Flow makes a... More>>

By Vadim Rizov

Published: November 05, 2008

I’ve Loved You So Long: Would You Trust Kristin Scott Thomas With Your Kids?

As Juliette, a Frenchwoman newly released from prison, Kristin Scott Thomas is so relentlessly unbending, so full of necessary enigma, that she... More>>

By Ella Taylor

Published: November 05, 2008

Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback: Obscure Band Has Local Connection

Some musical footnotes remain just that for good reason. Rough contemporaries of the recently reunited Sonics, the Monks were a German-managed... More>>

By Brian Miller

Published: November 05, 2008

Role Models: Paul Rudd Meets McLovin’

In every way, this is just another formulaic romp about two selfish slackers getting their priorities rearranged by a couple of... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: November 05, 2008

The Romance of Astrea and Celadon: Eric Rohmer in the 17th Century

A film that Eric Rohmer has suggested will be his last, Astrea and Celadon is a costume pageant that serenely conflates two—or perhaps... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: November 05, 2008

Soul Men: We Miss Bernie Mac

In Soul Men, actor-comedian Bernie Mac, who passed away in August, plays Floyd Henderson, a present-day car-wash mogul who back in the 1970s was... More>>

By Chuck Wilson

Published: November 05, 2008

PICK Synecdoche, New York: Inside Charlie Kaufman

If you traveled the length of John Malkovich's medulla oblongata and walked through the adjoining door of the interstellar hotel room at the end... More>>

By Scott Foundas

Published: November 05, 2008

Eden Lake: An English Vacation in Hell

Gleefully demonizing both the British "chav" working class and the horror genre's usual target audience of mid-teen males, Eden Lake pits a... More>>

By Luke Y. Thompson

Published: October 29, 2008

PICK Fear(s) of the Dark: All Cartoons, All Scary

While some may snicker at "graphic novel" as a term for comic books that take themselves too seriously, the French analogue—bande... More>>

By Aaron Hillis

Published: October 29, 2008

The Other End of the Line: Bollywood Attempts a Crossover

This meager cross-cultural romantic comedy stars Jesse Metcalfe as ultra-smooth New York advertising executive Granger and Bollywood actress... More>>

By Tim Grierson

Published: October 29, 2008

The Pool: Sorry, Wrong Caste

Leaving Milwaukee to tell an indigenous tale of life on India's west coast, director/DP Chris Smith inevitably brings an outsider's eye. Instead... More>>

By Nick Pinkerton

Published: October 29, 2008

RocknRolla: English Hoodlums Pose Like Mad

What do you have to do to get your career revoked in England, short of being Gary Glitter? After a box-office-catastrophic two-movie run, Guy... More>>

By Nick Pinkerton

Published: October 29, 2008

Zack & Miri Make a Porno: Seth Rogen Gets (Almost) Naked

Ostensibly, this should be money-shot Kevin Smith: Pals make a porn to pay the bills, and, in the process of gettin' it on for the video cam, cum... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: October 29, 2008

Happy-Go-Lucky: Mike Leigh Finds the Brighter Side of Life

The protag of Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky is a modestly gaudy people's heroine industriously repairing the social world, one frayed interaction... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: October 22, 2008

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