This brave odd duck of a romantic comedy from James L. Brooks strays as far from a barrel of laughs…
The fiction feature debut of Andrew Jarecki, director of the 2003 documentary Capturing the Friedmans, All Good Things likewise concerns…
A sequel to his 2006 Hollywood Dreams, Henry Jaglom’s Queen of the Lot again stars Tanna Frederick as Maggie, an…
The Fighter is based on the true story of Lowell, Mass., light welterweight champ “Irish” Micky Ward, but, starring Boston…
There’s a school of thought among some music journalists that interviewing musicians is a waste of time. They have nothing…
Based on his own series of popular-on-the-Internet short films, Finnish writer/director Jalmari Helander’s Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale creates something…
A near-irresistible exercise in bravura absurdity, Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan deserves to become a minor classic of heterosexual camp—at the…
This third adaptation from C.S. Lewis’ seven-volume Chronicles of Narnia comes underwritten by a new studio and with a new…
Claire Denis’ tense, convulsive White Material is a portrait of change and a thing of terrible beauty. The time is…
Raised as an exile in India, Tibetan ethnomusicologist and first-time filmmaker Ngawang Choephel returned to his homeland as an adult…
A feature-length portrait of a pop-music genius as (pre-)convicted murderer, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector lives up…
In her recent English-speaking roles, 50-year-old, bilingual Kristin Scott Thomas has gamely endured the fate of most actresses her age,…
A French actress, Julie (Leonor Baldaque), arrives in Lisbon to shoot a 17th-century costume drama. She’ll star in an arty…
Divorce sucks, especially when there are kids involved. Yet Pedro González-Rubio takes a lyrical view of a father and son’s…
Programmatic by design, Burlesque flattens singer Christina Aguilera’s inherent thorny appeal—a persona at once obnoxiously “provocative” and sympathetic—by laughably casting…
“Great,” sighs the wicked witch in this CG-animated spin on the Rapunzel story, “now I’m the bad guy.” Mother Gothel,…
Recording a three-day competition in Lyon, France, in which sugar is molded into rococo shapes, Kings of Pastry has none…
From a jaunty Spin Doctors–scored opening to a teary, Regina Spektor–cued finale, Love & Other Drugs will switch to any…
Announced at Cannes in 2007 and scheduled to shoot that summer, Andrei Konchalovsky’s version of The Nutcracker arrives several Thanksgivings…
Youth fled early for Hermione Granger, Harry Potter, and Ron Weasley, the trio at the center of the Harry Potter…
