Judi Dench

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: Brits out of Water

Opening Nights: Amy's View

A production full of pleasures, though a tad broad.

Johnny Depp Versus Ivar Haglund

Peter Mountain © Disney Ent.Depp and Cruz don't do enough dining or dancing.​The Dinner: fish and chips, at Ivar's Fish Bar (Pier 54, 1001 Alaskan Way). The Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, at Pacific Place (600 Pine St.). The Screenplate: Walt Disney and Ivar Haglund wer ... More >>

The Weekly Wire: The Week's Recommended Events

Peter Mountain © Disney Ent.Depp and Cruz don't do enough dining or dancing.​The Dinner: fish and chips, at Ivar's Fish Bar (Pier 54, 1001 Alaskan Way). The Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, at Pacific Place (600 Pine St.). The Screenplate: Walt Disney and Ivar Haglund wer ... More >>

Billy Connolly

Peter Mountain © Disney Ent.Depp and Cruz don't do enough dining or dancing.​The Dinner: fish and chips, at Ivar's Fish Bar (Pier 54, 1001 Alaskan Way). The Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, at Pacific Place (600 Pine St.). The Screenplate: Walt Disney and Ivar Haglund wer ... More >>

Spring Arts Calendar

A guide to what’s up and what’s on, with our picks for the best.

Nine: Fellini, 8½. Marshall, 0

The director of Chicago goes to war against himself.

Victorian Secrets

It’s all about style in Oscar Wilde’s comedy of roleplaying.

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

It’s all about style in Oscar Wilde’s comedy of roleplaying.

It's Time for Server Reboot Wednesday!

It’s all about style in Oscar Wilde’s comedy of roleplaying.

DVDs of the Week

Ugandan genocide and a grunt's-eye view of WWII.

Notes on a Scandal

Opens at Guild 45 and other theaters, Fri., Jan. 5. Rated R. 98 minutes.

Tea and Cate

A chat with the prickly star of three big holiday movies.

Casino Royale

Opens at Metro and other theaters, Fri., Nov. 17. Rated PG-13. 144 minutes.

Dame You

Edna Everage promises to fix your marriage, read your aura, and make you laugh— or your money back.

Tim and Brian Bitch About the Oscars

Fewer and fewer people are willing to leave their home to see a movie. Should they even care about the Oscars on TV? Or what we critics think?

Feb. 1-8, 2006

This week's specialty screenings and venues.

Stephen Frears

He takes us behind the cameras of Mrs. Henderson Presents.

Mrs. Henderson Presents

Opens Fri., Jan. 13, at Guild 45 and Uptown

Up Your Skirt

Screw Jane Austen; Candace Bushnell could be the creator of this sexy new Elizabeth Bennet.

Kontroll

Also: Ladies in Lavender, Layer Cake, The Longest Yard, Madagascar, Mad Hot Ballroom, 3-Iron, and We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen.

The Chronicles of Riddick

Universal Home Video, $29.98

Class action

Upper-crust comrades blow their cover.

Scenes from a marriage

Perseverance, in sickness and in health.

Anchors aweigh

Unmoored hero finds safe harbor.

Sugar, sugar

Sweets unleash taste for freedom.

All that glitters

The journal of an Oscar junkie.

History lesson

Alexander Payne shows Hollywood how comedy was done when it was done right

Alas, poor William

Alexander Payne shows Hollywood how comedy was done when it was done right