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Cadillac Records Can’t Handle the Truth Cadillac Records Can’t Handle the Truth
First, a key spoiler: Cadillac Records is not the story of Chess Records, the blues label started in Chicago in 1950 by brothers Leonard and Phil... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 04, 2008
In Nobel Son, Feel-Good Filmmaker Randall Miller Goes Bad . . . Very Bad In Nobel Son, Feel-Good Filmmaker Randall Miller Goes Bad . . . Very Bad
Nobody in the film industry wants to be pigeonholed. Personal assistants long to be studio heads, gaffers want to direct, and name actors... More>>
By Tim Grierson
Published: December 04, 2008
Australia’s Got Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman, but No Chemistry Australia’s Got Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman, but No Chemistry
You don't have to have been raised on colonial Brit Lit, classic melodramas, Westerns or war movies, or Gone With the Wind to figure out the... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: November 27, 2008
Witherspoon and Vaughn’s Carol Is Four Christmases Too Many Witherspoon and Vaughn’s Carol Is Four Christmases Too Many
To brand, then dismiss, Four Christmases as a disappointment would be giving it too much credit. The story of couple Kate (Reese Witherspoon) and... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: November 27, 2008
Gus Van Sant’s Milk Recaptures Californian Intolerance at Exactly the Right Time Gus Van Sant’s Milk Recaptures Californian Intolerance at Exactly the Right Time
Gus Van Sant has never been what you'd call a risk-averse filmmaker, but he directs his Harvey Milk biopic so carefully that there could be a... More>>
By J. Hoberman
Published: November 27, 2008
How Gus Van Sant Finally Got Milk After Decades in Development How Gus Van Sant Finally Got Milk After Decades in Development
Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, 1992 to be exact. Gus Van Sant, the filmmaker who had just thrilled the world with his... More>>
By David Ehrenstein
Published: November 27, 2008
In Slumdog Millionaire, Bollywood Meets Hollywood In Slumdog Millionaire, Bollywood Meets Hollywood
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Well, who wouldn't in this economy, even if the currency in question is rupees and winning the loot means being... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: November 20, 2008
Disney’s Bolt Is a Starry Dog Story Disney’s Bolt Is a Starry Dog Story
With his blazing white coat and pig-pink ears, to say nothing of the zigzag of lightning cut into his flank, the eponymous canine lead of... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: November 20, 2008
Danny Boyle, from Manchester to Mumbai Danny Boyle, from Manchester to Mumbai
I'm telling Danny Boyle over coffee that his new film, Slumdog Millionaire, is his best by far. "I hope it comes across that I had a real blast... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: November 20, 2008
Quantum of Solace Gives James Bond a License to Bore Quantum of Solace Gives James Bond a License to Bore
Those of us who adored Casino Royale, the 2006 reboot of the haggard, self-parodic James Bond franchise, had some trouble trying to decide where... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: November 13, 2008
In Synecdoche, New York, Art Imitates Life Imitating Art In Synecdoche, New York, Art Imitates Life Imitating Art
If you traveled the length of John Malkovich's medulla oblongata, hung a sharp left at the desk where Beckett's Krapp recorded his last tape, and... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: November 13, 2008
Role Models is Smarter and Bawdier Than Your Average Boys-to-Men Movie Role Models is Smarter and Bawdier Than Your Average Boys-to-Men Movie
Paul Rudd wears the constant look of glazed-eye amusement; everything seems to tickle him, even that which annoys or frustrates or disappoints... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: November 06, 2008
Soul Men Pays Fitting Tribute to Bernie Mac Soul Men Pays Fitting Tribute to Bernie Mac
If the dream of every comic is to have his humor live on long after he's left the stage, then the late Bernie Mac has exited this world on a high... More>>
By Chuck Wilson
Published: November 06, 2008
Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno Is Strictly Softcore Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno Is Strictly Softcore
Ostensibly, Zack and Miri Make a Porno should be money-shot Kevin Smith: Pals make a porn to pay the bills and, in the process of gettin' it on... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: October 30, 2008
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Salutes the Journalist’s Substance Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Salutes the Journalist’s Substance
In a nation of frightened dullards, there is always a sorry shortage of outlaws, and those few who make the grade are always welcome." So wrote... More>>
By J. Hoberman
Published: October 30, 2008
Eastwood’s Changeling Has Angelina Jolie Taking On a Serial Killer and the System Eastwood’s Changeling Has Angelina Jolie Taking On a Serial Killer and the System
On a double bill with L.A. Confidential, Chinatown, or just about any film made after 1970 about institutional corruption in Los Angeles, Clint... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: October 30, 2008
Happy-Go-Lucky’s Sally Hawkins Just Might Get You to Cheer Up Happy-Go-Lucky’s Sally Hawkins Just Might Get You to Cheer Up
The protag of Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky is a modestly gaudy people's heroine industriously repairing the social world, one frayed interaction... More>>
By J. Hoberman
Published: October 23, 2008
New York Cop Drama Pride and Glory Holds the Audience Hostage New York Cop Drama Pride and Glory Holds the Audience Hostage
Pride and Glory doesn't make any effort to disguise what it is: a barely-held-together string of vignettes lifted from every cop movie ever made... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: October 23, 2008
The Secret Life of Bees Is All Honey, No Sting The Secret Life of Bees Is All Honey, No Sting
A young woman fights off her brutal husband; a gun goes off; a marble spins on the floor where a toddler sits unattended. From B-movie... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: October 16, 2008
Former Mesa Director Sean Anders Doles Out More Teenage Kicks in Sex Drive Former Mesa Director Sean Anders Doles Out More Teenage Kicks in Sex Drive
The management of the movie house confiscated my cell phone at a screening of Sex Drive last week. "But I'm with the press," I explained to the... More>>
By Robrt L. Pela
Published: October 16, 2008
Oliver Stone Assigns Motive to W.’s M.O., but at This Point, Who Cares? Oliver Stone Assigns Motive to W.’s M.O., but at This Point, Who Cares?
W. may be less frenzied than the usual Oliver Stone sensory bombardment, but in revisiting the early '00s by way of the late '60s, this... More>>
By J. Hoberman
Published: October 16, 2008
Oliver Stone on W. and the President Who Would Be John Wayne Oliver Stone on W. and the President Who Would Be John Wayne
Sitting in the back of the restaurant at New York's über-chic Royalton Hotel in an orange polo shirt and khakis, Oliver Stone looks out of... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: October 16, 2008
Anne Hathaway Makes a Compelling Bad Girl in Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married Anne Hathaway Makes a Compelling Bad Girl in Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married
Those who believe that Jonathan Demme went all soft with Philadelphia and never recovered may not be reassured by his latest movie, an ensemble... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: October 16, 2008
Ridley Scott’s Body of Lies Is the Post-9/11 Thriller We Deserve Ridley Scott’s Body of Lies Is the Post-9/11 Thriller We Deserve
A new kind of war movie for a new kind of war, Body of Lies is about the war on terror as it is being waged on the ground, in the air, but most... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: October 09, 2008
Keira Knightley Royally Screws Up The Duchess Keira Knightley Royally Screws Up The Duchess
The Duchess is the best women's movie of the past few months. Don't get too excited: Sex and the City, Mamma Mia!, and The Women set the bar so... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: October 09, 2008
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