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Nenette: We Feel Trapped in the Zoo, Too
Stare long enough at Borneo native Nénette, a 41-year-old orangutan who’s lived at the zoo in Paris’ Jardin…
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Made in Dagenham: Seeking Equality on the Assembly Line
Wimmin power retrofitted as holiday heart-stirrer, Made in Dagenham recounts the real-life 1968 strike for equal pay by…
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I Love You Phillip Morris: Jim Carrey as Love-Struck Con Man
It’s taken almost two years for the bonkers, exhilarating same-sex romantic comedy I Love You Phillip Morris to…
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Leaving: Kristin Scott Thomas Falls for a Boy-Toy
In her recent English-speaking roles, 50-year-old, bilingual Kristin Scott Thomas has gamely endured the fate of most actresses…
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Kings of Pastry: Made With Real Butter
Recording a three-day competition in Lyon, France, in which sugar is molded into rococo shapes, Kings of Pastry…
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The Next Three Days: Russell Crowe Breaks Into Jail
“What if we choose to exist solely in a reality of our own making?” asks Pittsburgh community-college lit…
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Client 9: The Governor and the Hooker
The usually silver-tongued Eliot Spitzer, political hero of the recent Inside Job and now ubiquitous media personality, stammers…
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My Dog Tulip: Youll Woof, Youll Wag, Youll Cry
The antithesis of both Marley & Me cuddliness and Cesar Millan militance, J.R. Ackerley’s 1956 memoir about his…
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For Colored Girls: Ntozake Shange Gets Mangled Onscreen
It’s a long, long way from the women’s bar outside Berkeley, Calif., where Ntozake Shange first presented her…
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest: Part III Can’t End Soon Enough
When we first see bi computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) in the final adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s…
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Douchebag: Bros Before Hos
Sam Nussbaum (Andrew Dickler), his Taliban-length beard an extension of his mullah-like self-righteousness about organic produce and bicycling,…
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Conviction: Hilary Swank Demands Another Oscar!
After Fox Searchlight’s Amelia spectacularly flamed out last October, the studio’s trying again to grab awards-season honors with…
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Waiting for Superman: Bill Gates Joins the Charter-School Bandwagon
Davis Guggenheim’s call-to-arms documentary on the failures of the U.S. public-education system—thoroughly laudable in intention if maddening in…
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Heartbreaker: Handsome French Actors in a Vacuum
For the past half-decade, Romain Duris has been French cinema’s go-to brooder. Diversifying his saturnine handsomeness, Duris gives…
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Easy A: Emma Stone’s Got Talent
As far as teen comedies informed by 10th-grade English syllabi go, Easy A, partly inspired by The Scarlet…
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Legendary: Why, Patricia Clarkson, Why?
“Oklahoma—they call it the ‘Sooner State,'” narrates Danny Glover, playing a fisherman/Magical Negro, at the beginning of the…
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child: Live Fast, Die Young
International art star by 23, dead from a heroin overdose at 27, Jean-Michel Basquiat was drawn, in the…
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Stonewall Uprising: An Important Event, Awkwardly Remembered
In the early-morning hours of Saturday, June 28, 1969, at a dive at 53 Christopher Street in New…
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La Mission: Benjamin Bratt Reconsiders His Macho
Watered-down Jungian analysis meets a GLAAD-approved weepie in Peter Bratt’s second feature, starring brother Benjamin (who also produces)…
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Mother and Child: Naomi Watts Demands a Baby, Immediately!
Rodrigo Garcia has admirably distinguished himself through his commitment to creating intelligent roles for his heavily distaff casts.…