The pleasing sounds of Carmen Maura’s whispery Castilian lisp open this 1962-set film about the friendship between a Parisian captain…
This tour doc—shot in moody, close-up-heavy black-and-white—traces a few years on the road with Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, real-life…
The mad-scientist tale has remained more or less fixed since the beginning of sound cinema: From Dr. Frankenstein’s claim to…
Starring dancer Kenny Wormald and directed by Craig Brewer, Footloose is an extraordinarily faithful remake, recycling four songs from Herbert…
George Clooney’s fourth directorial effort is a loose adaptation of Farragut North, a 2008 behind-the-political-campaign play by Beau Willimon, who…
This documentary represents Nick Broomfield’s attempt to, as he puts it, “find out about the real Sarah from the people…
Contagion opens on day two of a global viral epidemic. Gwyneth Paltrow plays Beth, an American employee for a multinational…
Emma (Anne Hathaway) is a too-serious would-be writer in coke-bottle glasses and combat boots. She’s nursing a crush on Dexter…
A fast-talking, eye-rolling snarler, Emma Stone wears a truly terrible perm to play the allegedly dowdy Skeeter, a recent college…
A uniquely Freudian entry in the body-switching-comedy canon, The Change-Up stars Jason Bateman as anal-retentive lawyer/family man Dave and Ryan…
Brit Marling, the lithe, stunning co-writer and star of Mike Cahill’s Another Earth, plays Rhoda, a 17-year-old who is celebrating…
After Emily (Julianne Moore) tells Cal (Steve Carell), her husband of 20-plus years, that she wants a divorce, she confesses…
This dark, hallucinatory fable begins and climaxes with two of the most audacious sex-meets-death set-pieces in recent indie-movie memory. What’s…
Nina (Li Bingbing) is a Shanghai career girl who drops plans to move to New York when she learns her…
Created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for Marvel Comics in 1941, Captain America was among the first American comic…
Director Seth Gordon’s ensemble comedy is about how our tough economic times have destroyed white-collar, white-male masculinity. Three high-school friends—weakling…
Bad Teacher focuses on a school year in the life of Elizabeth (Cameron Diaz), an aging party girl, once destined…
“I am angry,” Conan O’Brien admits in Rodman Flender’s tour doc. “I’m trying not to be . . . but sometimes I’m so mad…
A deceptively light time-travel romance, Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris uses fairy-tale devices as a way to get to the…
Pierre Thoretton’s documentary opens with unbroken footage from designer Yves Saint-Laurent’s 2002 speech announcing his retirement from fashion, after 40-plus…
