Built around the talents of co-writer/lead actress Kristen Wiig, Bridesmaids is the first female-fronted comedy produced by Hollywood kingpin Judd…
The opening title card of François Ozon’s 1977-set Potiche seems to take design inspiration from the exploitation films of that…
When a local crime boss (Kevin Bacon) lures away his wife (Liv Tyler), lifelong pushover Frank (Rainn Wilson; see interview)—under…
Written and directed by Quentin Dupieux, Rubber follows the exploits of a tire (listed in the credits as “Robert”) that…
Paul Giamatti continues contemporary cinema’s longest pre-midlife crisis in Win Win as Mike, yet another schlubby 40-something flummoxed by mundane…
The second feature from 21-year-old wunderkind Xavier Dolan is an Instagram of the Way We Fuck Now—or, more precisely, the…
Director Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre) fragments Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel, introducing us to Jane (Mia Wasikowska) as a young woman…
This 2009 Cannes winner is hyperrealist sci-fi detailing an (anti)social experiment gone awry. The matriarch and patriarch of an upper-class…
In Bourne Ultimatum screenwriter George Nolfi’s directorial debut, Matt Damon plays David Norris, a congressman rocketing to the front of…
The Sundance Film Festival, which ended last Sunday, self-identifies as a “discovery festival,” meaning that it embraces its own legend…
“She doesn’t sing that way because she’s had it easy.” This is how Tess (Cher), the long-suffering owner of the…
“Maybe I should just tell you some of the facts as I remember them,” says Spalding Gray a few minutes…
Kelly Canter is the Courtney Love of country stars. Spectacular meltdowns onstage have forced Kelly (an inconsistently twanging Gwyneth Paltrow)…
Derek Cianfrance’s divorce drama is the story of how a couple (Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams) travels from too-cute introduction…
Based on the Pulitzer Prize– winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire, John Cameron Mitchell’s Rabbit Hole plops us down in the…
A sequel to his 2006 Hollywood Dreams, Henry Jaglom’s Queen of the Lot again stars Tanna Frederick as Maggie, an…
Programmatic by design, Burlesque flattens singer Christina Aguilera’s inherent thorny appeal—a persona at once obnoxiously “provocative” and sympathetic—by laughably casting…
In the climax of Morning Glory, Rachel McAdams is dressed in the kind of cocktail dress a screen heroine wears…
A skinny, scowly, and dryly self-referential Robert Downey Jr. meets a chubby, beardy, quasi-autistic Zach Galifianakis boarding a flight. Downey…
A road-trip romance thick with sci-fi circumstance, Monsters imagines a bizarro-world present in which a NASA probe has crashed, leaving…
