Catherine Keener

The 40-Year-Old Virgin

Cyrus: Jonah Hill Seriously Creeps Us Out

Please Give: Catherine Keener Refuses to Feel Liberal Guilt

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

The Soloist: Jamie Foxx Battles With Inferior Script

Tilikum Place Café Is All Goods, No Buzz

Perfecting even the homeliest of kitchen staples.

Sean Penn's Other, Non-Oscar-Winning Role

If you watched the Oscars last Sunday, Sean Penn seemed pretty reasonable, friendly, and modest in accepting his Best Actor award for the acclaimed Milk (which continues in these local theaters). I had my money on Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler, like a lot of people, but I have to agree that on pure ... More >>

Bard 2 Bad

Another case of Sundance-induced hypoxia, Hamlet 2 sold for 2 much money (a rumored $10 million) during that January film festival, opened 2 rather poor reviews, and 2 predictably sank at the box office, grossing around $5 million. 2 bad, you ask?Hamlet 2 arrived at a moment when mocking the small- ... More >>

What Just Happened: Robert De Niro Cast in Mirthless Hollywood Satire

Another case of Sundance-induced hypoxia, Hamlet 2 sold for 2 much money (a rumored $10 million) during that January film festival, opened 2 rather poor reviews, and 2 predictably sank at the box office, grossing around $5 million. 2 bad, you ask?Hamlet 2 arrived at a moment when mocking the small- ... More >>

Krakauer's Conspicuous Silence

Another case of Sundance-induced hypoxia, Hamlet 2 sold for 2 much money (a rumored $10 million) during that January film festival, opened 2 rather poor reviews, and 2 predictably sank at the box office, grossing around $5 million. 2 bad, you ask?Hamlet 2 arrived at a moment when mocking the small- ... More >>

Into the Wild: Sean Penn Does Right by Jon Krakauer

Another case of Sundance-induced hypoxia, Hamlet 2 sold for 2 much money (a rumored $10 million) during that January film festival, opened 2 rather poor reviews, and 2 predictably sank at the box office, grossing around $5 million. 2 bad, you ask?Hamlet 2 arrived at a moment when mocking the small- ... More >>

Into the Wild

Another case of Sundance-induced hypoxia, Hamlet 2 sold for 2 much money (a rumored $10 million) during that January film festival, opened 2 rather poor reviews, and 2 predictably sank at the box office, grossing around $5 million. 2 bad, you ask?Hamlet 2 arrived at a moment when mocking the small- ... More >>

My Lucky Star

Former Frasier writer send up Hollywood in the best way.

Like Austen in L.A.

Absent a marriage plot, or any real plot, Nicole Holofcener dissects the manners of matrons and maids.

Capote, Derailed, and A History of Violence

Absent a marriage plot, or any real plot, Nicole Holofcener dissects the manners of matrons and maids.

The 10 Best Films of 2005

Gay cowboys, a giant monkey, killer bears, abandoned Japanese kids, and a 40-year-old who can't get laid. So much for politics at the movies this year.

Publish and Perish

The writer will do anything to get his book. The film shows at what a profound moral cost.

Northern Highlights

2005 suddenly looks brighter for fall movies, according to our intrepid explorer over the border.

Film Favorites and Calendar

2005 suddenly looks brighter for fall movies, according to our intrepid explorer over the border.

Asylum

Also: À Tout de Suite, This Divided State, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, My Date With Drew, 9 Songs, Red Eye, and Tropical Malady.

Popcorn Junkie

You want Shakespeare? Go to the park, Einstein. Here are six multiplex picks to gloriously disengage your brain.

The Girl From Monday

Also: Hard Goodbyes: My Father, The Interpreter, Kung Fu Hustle, A Lot Like Love, and Madison.

The Ballad of Jack and Rose

Also: Beauty Shop, Los Angeles Plays Itself, Lost Embrace, and Steamboy.

Living In Oblivion

Also: Beauty Shop, Los Angeles Plays Itself, Lost Embrace, and Steamboy.

Meta Fatigue

Planning a holiday vacation? How about taking a screenwriter's head trip?

Down By Law

Planning a holiday vacation? How about taking a screenwriter's head trip?

Stardust and Silicon

Hollywood send-up brings out the farcical Pacino.

Glum Expectations

There's no escape for heroine or audience in this drab world.

White Fangs

All hail Catherine Keener!

Hollywood Confidential

Soderbergh gives an avant-garde spin to familiar material.

Three Sisters

Disparate women share common self-doubts.

Memento

Disparate women share common self-doubts.

SIFF 2002 Films: L-Q

Disparate women share common self-doubts.

The Films: T-Z

Disparate women share common self-doubts.

All that glitters

The journal of an Oscar junkie.

Simpatico

Horses and histrionics.

In your head - Being John Malkovich

Their ad asks: Ever want to be someone else?

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