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The Art of the Steal: Intrigue in the Museum World
Matisse called the Barnes Foundation “the only sane place to see art in America.” But the clamor over…
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Greenberg: Ben Stiller Stops Just Short of Unbearable Bitterness
Sad, funny, and acutely self-conscious, Noah Baumbach’s new movie is a mordant character study, unafraid to project a…
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Sweetgrass: Everything You Wanted to Know About Sheepherding, but Were Afraid to Ask
Though the breathtaking vistas of Big Sky Country in Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s unforgettable sheepherding documentary come…
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Mother: She Cleans Up Her Son’s Bloody Mess
Mother, Bong Joon-ho’s follow-up to his killer killer-tadpole allegory The Host, is a subtler yet no less visceral…
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Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Suss: The Nazis Make a Movie. Guess Who’s the Villain
The only Third Reich filmmaker to be tried for crimes against humanity (he was acquitted, twice), the notorious…
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Chloe: Julianne Moore Deploys Amanda Seyfried as Sexual Snare
Atom Egoyan’s Chloe is posh, cool, and never less than obvious. Work for hire, the movie was adapted…
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Hot Tub Time Machine: John Cusack Escapes From Middle Age to the Glorious ’80s
A fundamentally lazy comedy that will probably make you laugh like an idiot, HTTM was ostensibly directed by…
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The Runaways: Kristen Stewart Transitions From Vampires to Jailbait Rockers
There’s a stunt element to the casting of The Runaways: a punked-up, barely-legal Kristen Stewart and a still-underage,…
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Neil Young Trunk Show: Jonathan Demme’s Latest Tribute
In contrast to 2006’s amber-lit, prayerful Neil Young: Heart of Gold, a stately acoustic set at Nashville’s tradition-rich…
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Green Zone: No WMDs for Matt Damon
Better late than never—a bang-bang pulse-pounder predicated on the Bush administration’s deliberate fabrication of WMDs in Iraq. Paul…
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45365: Ohio, in All Its Midwestern Mundanity
Taking its name from the hometown zip code of directors Bill and Turner Ross, this documentary portrait of…
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The Most Dangerous Man in America: Remember Daniel Ellsberg? You Should
Daniel Ellsberg was an ex-Marine, trusted analyst, and Cold Warrior under Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, who,…
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A Prophet: An Unsentimental Education in Crime
From A Self-Made Hero to Read My Lips, Jacques Audiard has studied the intricacies of illicit behavior. Criminal…
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Remember Me: Pretty-Boy Robert Pattinson Stars in 9/11 Dreck
Putatively a new romance starring Robert Pattinson, Remember Me begins like a vigilante movie: A Brooklyn subway platform,…
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She’s Out of My League: Wingman Steals Movie
This isn’t entirely without its selling points, chief among them T.J. Miller, who’s a cross between Seth Rogen…
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American Radical: A Jew Takes Issue With Israel
Noam Chomsky reveres him. Leon Wieseltier hates him. Alan Dershowitz called him an anti-Semite and applied successful pressure…
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Prodigal Sons: Sibling Rivalry Assumes a New Gender Dynamic
In the late ’60s, the McKerrow family of Helena, Montana, had three sons: one adopted, two biological. Today…
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The Girl on the Train: Catherine Deneuve Loves Too Little
For better or worse, there isn’t a human experience that French director André Téchiné can resist lathering into…
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Brooklyn’s Finest: Wait, Ethan Hawke Is Italian?
A multiplex three-pack filled with every cop-movie convention since the invention of gunpowder and curse words, Brooklyn’s Finest…
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Red Riding Trilogy: Three Movies and Many Murders
This crime triptych originated in four novels by David Peace, who looked back without nostalgia to the Yorkshire…