Will there be a special Academy Award for Best Aryan Costume Design this year? Everywhere you turn in the movies,…
With its delicate fairy-tale bones and layer of politically conscious muscle, Azur & Asmar is a sleek yet slightly unwieldy…
The Wrestler may be plenty visceral, but it’s no more a sports movie than professional wrestling is a competitive sport….
I could tell you, flippantly, that this extreme sports documentary about daredevil Norwegian parachutist Karina Hollekim is brought to you…
There’s a wonderfully perverse irony in the fact that the film version of Richard Yates’ first and most lauded novel,…
Is it a sign of the apocalypse? Something in the water? Or is it just the way the wind is…
Eurotrash? Art-world parasite? Smack-dabbling bluebeard? Warhol wannabe? Compulsive no-talent video diarist? It’s hard to know where to begin with Michel…
In his usual underdog role, Adam Sandler palys a lowly Los Angeles handyman recruited by his sister (Courteney Cox) to…
With the fanboys anxiously eying Zack Snyder’s Watchmen adaptation, Frank Miller’s version of The Spirit sneaks into theaters almost unnoticed…
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is certainly curious—a modest F. Scott Fitzgerald story, about a man born in the…
Walt Kowalski growls a lot–a dyspeptic rumble that wells up from deep inside his belly when he catches sight of…
“People who grin all the time, you never know what they’re up to,” says a friend of beer-guzzling, porn-watching, hardcore-show-attending,…
Oscars mean Nazis. Or, to put it differently, ’tis the season of Holocaust movies, which generally entail swastika-wearing Germans filling…
Like Doubt, Stephen Daldry’s The Reader is low-budget, high-profile, and beamed straight at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and…
Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg–a lot of name for a lot of guy. Born into the aristocracy in…
Satisfying only to pet-porn junkies whose tear ducts can’t even withstand a 365 Ferrets a Year calendar, the movie version…
Save Me‘s plot sounds like a ripped-from-the-headlines gay play circa five years ago, but the film itself subverts expectation. Mark…
Two years ago, Will Smith and Italian director Gabriele Muccino released The Pursuit of Happyness, which starred Smith as a…
Kate DiCamillo’s 2003 children’s novel about a big-eared mouse with an inspiring case of shining-knight envy is one of the…
Back in the early 1980s, when I was a graduate student in Boston, a prominent professor I knew was accused…
