Bless Me, Ultima
Ultima Fighting: Adaptation of best-selling Chicano novel <em>Bless Me, Ultima</em> appeals with honesty, morality.
Hitchcock
Hitch in the Story: <em>Hitchcock</em> portrays famed director as more conflicted and less perverse than history reveals.
Trouble With the Curve
Bunt Single: <em>Trouble With the Curve</em> makes a decent pitch, but nothing all-world.
Darling Companion
A Dog of a Story: <em>Darling Companion</em> takes the boring travails of rich people to the dullest of lows.
Footnote
Talmud Tale: Father and son academics engage in rivalry of Biblical proportions in <em>Footnote</em>.
The Kid With a Bike
Simply Beautiful: The Dardenne brothers use simplicity and the mundane as tools of transcendence in <em>The Kid With a Bike</em>.
Pariah
Coming Out On Top: <em>Pariah</em> refuses to conform in its telling of a closeted lesbian’s trials of self-discovery.
My Week With Marilyn
The Goddess Effect: Michelle Williams conjures immortality, but My Week With Marilyn fails to charm.
The Ides of March
George Clooney-led ensemble cast in <em>The Ides of March</em> is an intern romance away from landslide success.
Bloody Aliens
England’s Attack the Block moves the extraterrestrial attack flick to a fresh and clever new ’hood: the projects.
Another Earth
Parallel Pooper: <em>Another Earth</em> fails to make it out of its own sci-fi field of gravity.
Sarah’s Key
Sad Truth: Sarah’s Key turns audiences on to arresting characters persevering through onerous but dramatically different obstacles.
Jane Eyre
The latest <em>Jane Eyre</em> is just a little more passion away from being super powerful.
Rabbit Hole
Sad But True: <em>Rabbit Hole</em> rides inspired performances (including Nicole Kidman’s) to powerful effect.
Gulliver's Travels
Black Out: <i>Gulliver’s Travels</i> doesn’t go much of anywhere.
Black Out: <i>Gulliver’s Travels</i> doesn’t go much of anywhere.
Little Fockers
Dumb Fockers: <i>Little Fockers</i> doesn’t make the most of its opportunities.
Dumb Fockers: <i>Little Fockers</i> doesn’t make the most of its opportunities.
Winter’s Bone
Speed Kills: Cutting to the <i>Winter’s Bone</i>
Speed Kills: Cutting to the <i>Winter’s Bone</i>
Cyrus
Baby Love:
Baby Love: Cyrus tries not to play its yukky subject for laughs &#8211; and ends up succeeding too well.
Vincere
Springtime for Benito: Artful Marco Bellocchio biopic tells the hidden history of Mussolini’s first wife.
Springtime for Benito: Artful Marco Bellocchio biopic tells the hidden history of Mussolini’s first wife.
Chloe
Stinky Kinky: <i>Chloe</i> excels at scintillation, fails as filmmaking.
Stinky Kinky: <i>Chloe</i> excels at scintillation, fails as filmmaking.
Coco Before Chanel
French Dip: Coco Before Chanel provides a look into the back story of a fashion icon.
French Dip: Coco Before Chanel provides a look into the back story of a fashion icon.
The Informant!
Anyone Can Whistle: The Informant! tells us more about human nature than corporate wrongdoing.
Anyone Can Whistle: The Informant! tells us more about human nature than corporate wrongdoing.
Adoration
Family Matters: Atom Egoyan continues to make provocative, if elusive, explorations.
Family Matters: Atom Egoyan continues to make provocative, if elusive, explorations.
The Class
Class Title: An unsentimental education in a French drama.
Class Title: An unsentimental education in a French drama.
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Father Hood: When Did You Last See Your Father? looks at a strained familial relationship.
Father Hood: When Did You Last See Your Father? looks at a strained familial relationship.
Serious Chills
<i>The Mist</i> somehow manages to be a thought-provoking B movie.
<i>The Mist</i> somehow manages to be a thought-provoking B movie.
Ladies’ Man
Despite a title that makes this movie sound as though it might be the latest madcap offering from Pedro Almodóvar,
True Crime
<i>Zodiac</i> is a meticulously researched look at Northern California’s most notorious serial killer.
<i>Zodiac</i> is a meticulously researched look at Northern California’s most notorious serial killer.
A Grown-Up’s Fairy Tale
<i>Pan’s Labyrinth</i> is a daring work of startling imagination.
<i>Pan’s Labyrinth</i> is a daring work of startling imagination.
Mind Games
A new documentary makes the world of crossword puzzle players look fascinating.
A new documentary makes the world of crossword puzzle players look fascinating.
Home On the Range
In director Ang Lee’s beautiful Brokeback Mountain, two cowboys became enamored with one another during a summer in Wyoming.
In director Ang Lee’s beautiful Brokeback Mountain, two cowboys became enamored with one another during a summer in Wyoming.
High Wattage
The only good thing about <i>Ellie Parker</i> is Naomi Watts’ sensational performance.
The only good thing about <i>Ellie Parker</i> is Naomi Watts’ sensational performance.
The Good Fight
George Clooney’s <i>Good Night, and Good Luck</i> details the battle between newsman Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy.
George Clooney’s <i>Good Night, and Good Luck</i> details the battle between newsman Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Window Dressing
<i>El Crimen Perfecto</i> is not much more than nice to look at.
<i>El Crimen Perfecto</i> is not much more than nice to look at.
Young Love
Mona (Nathalie Press) rides a motorbike without a motor. Tamsin (Emily Blunt) initially comes into view on the back of a horse. It’s summertime in the Yorkshire countryside when these two bored teenage girls first meet. “That’s funny. You don’t look like a Mona,” says Tamsin. And with that, Pawel Pawlikowski’s ripe and symbolically drenched coming-of-age story is off and running.
Head of the Class
<i>Rock School</i> examines rocker turned teacher Paul Green.
<i>Rock School</i> examines rocker turned teacher Paul Green.
Trading Places
The Danish film<i> Brothers</i> shows the effects of war on one member of a family.
The Danish film<i> Brothers</i> shows the effects of war on one member of a family.
Meet the Parent
Rebecca Miller, daughter of playwright Arthur Miller, examines a strange family dynamic in The Ballad of Jack and Rose.
Rebecca Miller, daughter of playwright Arthur Miller, examines a strange family dynamic in The Ballad of Jack and Rose.
Advanced Shakespeare
Al Pacino as Shylock helps bring Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice to the big screen.
Al Pacino as Shylock helps bring Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice to the big screen.
Middle-Aged Splendor
Annette Bening plays a diva of the stage in <i>Being Julia.</i>
Annette Bening plays a diva of the stage in <i>Being Julia.</i>
Movie Rewind
Top 10 Movies of 2004 and a Handful of Other Awards.
Top 10 Movies of 2004 and a Handful of Other Awards.
Meet the Sequel
Potty humor is abundant in this follow-up to the 2000 movie <i>Meet the Parents.</i>
Potty humor is abundant in this follow-up to the 2000 movie <i>Meet the Parents.</i>
Industrial Mystery
Director Wes Anderson excels at haunted atmosphere with <i>The Machinist</i>.
Director Wes Anderson excels at haunted atmosphere with <i>The Machinist</i>.
West End Theatrics
<i>Being Julia</i>’s leading lady controls the stage—and life—from all sides.
<i>Being Julia</i>’s leading lady controls the stage—and life—from all sides.
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