Film
No Country for Old Men: Javier BardemScariest Haircut Ever!
“Hold still”–it’s what the hunters say to the hunted in the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men.…
Film
Quixotic: Cervantes Meets Digital Video
There are no windmills, only wind—and trees and grass and sunlight extinguishing the dawn—in writer-director Albert Serra’s extraordinary,…
Arts & Culture
Blade Runner: The Final Cut
Ridley Scotts vanguard science-fiction epic returns to the big screen for its 25th anniversary, digitally tweaked in hundreds…
Film
Blade Runner: Harrison Ford Takes Us Back to the Future (1982)
Ridley Scott’s vanguard science-fiction epic returns to the big screen for its 25th anniversary, digitally tweaked in hundreds…
Film
A Man Vanishes: The Legacy of Shohei Imamura
The 18 titles in this retrospective are the work of a social anthropologist with an unapologetic Darwinian streak.…
Film
Reservation Road: Joaquin Phoenix Leads All-Star Misery-Fest
Hotel Rwanda director Terry George’s film version of John Burnham Schwartz’s 1998 novel is one of those movies…
Film
Into the Wild: Sean Penn Does Right by Jon Krakauer
To some, the story of Christopher Johnson McCandless, the 24-year-old Emory University graduate who starved to death in…
Film
Fierce People: Cougar Diane Lane Lost Among the Rich!
When 16-year-old Finn (Anton Yelchin) gets busted scoring drugs for his coke-snorting, alcoholic masseuse of a mother (Diane…
Film
Chalk: Mockumentary Goes to High School
Trouble paying attention in class, low self-esteem, hormonal confusion, counting the days until summer vacation—and those are just…
Film
The Brave One: Jodie Foster is the New Charles Bronson
In the new Neil Jordan movie, Jodie Foster plays New York talk-radio host Erica Bain, who survives a…
Film
Self-Medicated: A Filmmaker in Need of Filmmaking Rehab
The 24-year-old writer-director Monty Lapica makes an ill-advised stab at playing the 17-year-old version of himself in this…
Film
The Nanny Diaries: Scarlett Johansson Becomes the Che Guevara of the Upper East Side
Shortly after graduating from film school, I took a part-time job as the assistant to a successful movie…
Film
The Boss of It All: Surprise! Lars von Trier Makes Capitalism Fun
Danish provocateur Lars von Trier took a break from his much-ballyhooed (but financially disastrous) U.S.A. Trilogy to make…
Film
Superbad: Supergood, Thanks to Producer Judd Apatow
The latest comic meteorite to hurtle forth from the galaxy of producer Judd Apatow, Superbad is about a…
Film
Hot Rod: Andy SambergDont Hate Him for Being Lazy
The Saturday Night Live comedy trio of Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer—collectively known as the Lonely…
Film
The Simpsons Movie: Eeeexcellent!
In his big-screen debut, Homer Simpson utters the “D’oh!” heard round the world—or at least as far away…
Film
Ten Canoes: Immersed Among the Aborigines
Directed by the Dutch expatriate filmmaker Rolf de Heer, this sometimes bawdy (remember: “Never trust a man with…
Film
Hairspray: John Travolta Helps Sell the Safe, Bland Side of John Waters
Neither salacious nor cinematic, this tepid third treatment of Hairspray is only notable for its casting.
Film
Brooklyn Rules: Badda-Bing, Badda-Yawn
As a longtime series writer on The Sopranos, Terence Winter admirably steered clear of most of the hoary…