The extraordinary Romanian film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, more comfortably known as “that abortion movie that won…
Black, fluffy, and gloriously conjoined, Colin Farrell’s eyebrows aren’t the prettiest things about In Bruges—that honor falls to the…
This isn’t the first time that Richard LaGravenese, the gifted writer of A Little Princess and The Fisher King…
Simmering below the squeamish elder-care euphemism “uncharted territory” is a fearful awareness that when it comes to dealing with the…
Kites fly high over San Francisco and Kabul, but not much else soars in Marc Forster’s flaccid adaptation of…
Rereading Atonement last weekend, my first thought was: I hope to God that Joe Wright—whose broadly grinning Pride & Prejudice…
Two classic shorts by Albert Lamorisse
Writer-director Zach Helm’s amiable but nerveless kids’ movie about a 243-year-old toy-store owner (Dustin Hoffman in shell-shocked hair, a purple…
Less a war drama than a set of dueling position papers, Robert Redford’s Lions for Lambs may be the gabbiest…
Kenneth Branagh’s ferociously arty, vacuous remake of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1972 movie pares the action down to a slim two-hander…
How painful to watch Ryan Gosling, one of the most elastic actors of his generation, smirk and gawp and grimace…
For all its brave rhetoric about 9/11 and the Constitution, Gavin Hood’s slick thriller about American outsourcing of terror interrogations…
Jay Jonroy, an Iraqi Kurd now living in New York, has had two close relatives end up in Saddam Hussein’s…
If you can’t get enough of the Mutually Supportive Sisterhood narrative, there’s every chance you’ll go for this perfectly pleasant,…
If Daniel Radcliffe is hoping for an acting life after Harry Potter, he might want to be choosier than this…
Wolfgang Amadeus gets lionized—and somewhat embalmed—in this solemn Festschrift by British filmmaker Phil Grabsky. At two hours plus, In Search…
After Hair and the mass marketing of tie-dye, can the ’60s be shrunk to fit any further? Yes, indeed, here…
Loosely drawn from Mark Boal’s 2004 Playboy investigative piece about the killing of a soldier who went AWOL while on…
Like many geniuses of comedy, France’s pre-eminent 17th-century playwright always felt like a tragedian manqué, a vanity that, had he…
A smarmy score, some orgiastic farting from a herd of walruses, and a modicum of cutesy anthropomorphism from narrator Queen…
