Off duty, according to this slickly pleasurable addition to the Jane Austen spin-off canon, our lady of graceful letters was…
Light, airy, and sweet, Patrice Leconte’s latest comedy swings his favorite premise—fruitful encounters between opposites—away from romance and into the…
I wanted to hate this caper about two straight firefighters (Adam Sandler and Kevin James) pretending to be gay for…
Pascale Ferran’s magnificently sensual adaptation of an earlier version of D.H. Lawrence’s novel isn’t remotely bawdy, but it is candidly,…
A blitzed-looking man stumbling out of a screening of this dreadful excuse for unromantic comedy volunteered that the best part…
In the kooky little Canadian town of Wawa, whose chief selling point is a 30-foot statue of a goose, a…
Parked uneasily between sensitive indie and studio chick flick, Lajos Koltai’s Evening makes star-studded hash of Susan Minot’s beautifully written,…
Like all voyeurs, Jackie (Kate Dickie) lacks a life to call her own outside of her job manning a police…
Uplifted beyond its merits by a thrilling performance from Marion Cotillard, this humdrum biopic of France’s favorite songbird, Edith Piaf,…
Do we need another movie about the liberal West watching in horror as something that daily befalls helpless bystanders all…
The cash-cow flippered ones rise again, this time as yellow-tufted surfer dudes riding the waves of life off the coast…
Coming out of Shrek the Third, I asked the two smart preteen girls I had in tow what they had…
My least favorite Robert Altman film, 1993’s Short Cuts, hijacked a bunch of Raymond Carver stories and turned them into…
In this superbly tacit chamber piece, intolerable pressure is brought to bear on the 44-year marriage between a college professor…
Three noisy women and a worn-out premise rattle around trying to make contact in Georgia Rule, an incoherent dramedy of…
A death in the family forces Hunt (Paul Rudd), a Long Island clam digger, to face up to his becalmed…
Bosnia in the 1990s: Just as depressing as we remember.
Richard Gere as less-than-fabulous ’70s faker.
Another (Caucasian) take on Rwandan genocide.
SXSW ’07 produces one breakout indie star—and a Michael Moore backlash.
