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Love & Other Drugs: Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway Versus Erectile Disorder
From a jaunty Spin Doctors–scored opening to a teary, Regina Spektor–cued finale, Love & Other Drugs will switch…
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The Nutcracker in 3-D: John Turturro as the Rat King?
Announced at Cannes in 2007 and scheduled to shoot that summer, Andrei Konchalovsky’s version of The Nutcracker arrives…
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1: A Nice Setup for Next Summers Finale
Youth fled early for Hermione Granger, Harry Potter, and Ron Weasley, the trio at the center of the…
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Today’s Special: Starring Aasif Mandvi From The Daily Show
Cheerful in outline and yet prone to maudlin bulges in its middle, Today’s Special stars Daily Show correspondent…
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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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Colony: Something’s Wrong Inside the Hive
The documentary crowd is catching up to colony collapse disorder, which some estimate has wiped out one-third of…
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Danny Boyle Talks About 127 Hours
After earning an Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire, director Danny Boyle was well aware that the true story of…
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Vision: Feminism in the Dark Ages?
The fifth collaboration of director Margarethe von Trotta and actress Barbara Sukowa, Vision continues the proto-feminist canonization of…
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127 Hours: The Agony and the Ecstasy of James Franco
Watch what James Franco—actor/sleepy grad student/tepid writer/viral-video comedian/ conceptual artist/aficionado of gender-fuckery—can accomplish when he actually focuses for…
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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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Boxing Gym: Frederick Wiseman’s Last Hurrah?
Boxing Gym is 80-year-old documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s 38th feature. Despite, or perhaps because of, its relatively modest length…
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Waste Land: Making Trash Into Art
Warning lights should flash anytime an artist ventures among the Third World’s poor and dispossessed. Pose a peasant…
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Cool It: A Skeptical Eye on Global Warming
The science of global warming is tough enough to evaluate without the sort of hard-sell Ondi Timoner pushes…
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Morning Glory: Grouchy Harrison Ford Defends the MSM
In the climax of Morning Glory, Rachel McAdams is dressed in the kind of cocktail dress a screen…
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Carlos: Five Hours of International Terrorism in a Single Weekend
Justly feted at Cannes, named for the globetrotting Venezuelan “revolutionary”-turned-killer capitalist also known as “the Jackal,” Carlos is…
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Due Date: Robert Downey Jr. Wants to Kill Zach Galifianakis
A skinny, scowly, and dryly self-referential Robert Downey Jr. meets a chubby, beardy, quasi-autistic Zach Galifianakis boarding a…
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Monsters: Ingenious Sci-Fi at the Mexican Border
A road-trip romance thick with sci-fi circumstance, Monsters imagines a bizarro-world present in which a NASA probe has…
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Four Lions: The Lighter Side of Suicide Bombing
It would be unwise to consider Four Lions a movie that has much to say about radical Islam…
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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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Tamara Drewe: Stephen Frears Makes Hay at a Writers Colony
Comely, independent, willful young lass returns to collect family inheritance in rural England, drives the local men wild,…