Just so you know, it’s going to take a while,” says the CIA officer to his newly arrived colleague at…
Watching Django Unchained, it’s easy to imagine that Quentin Tarantino had such a blast making Inglourious Basterds that he decided to take his…
You can hear the people sing—really hear them—in the long-gestating screen version of that Broadway juggernaut Les Misérables. Countering the…
Peter Jackson’s new Tolkien adaptation has been supersized for three holiday seasons.
“I’ve made six movies, and I feel like I’m only just finally figuring out how this business fucking works,” Paul…
It’s a warm spring evening on the Paramount Pictures lot in Hollywood, and the crowd jostling for hors d’oeuvres in…
Tom Ford applies too much polish to a Christopher Isherwood novel.
The director of Chicago goes to war against himself.
Catering to female filmgoers of a certain age, Nancy Meyers keeps
making the same movie over and over again.
Six decades after unleashing the persistent NAACP bugaboo Song of the South (1946), that peculiar cultural institution known as the…
Given his preference for static, symmetrical, scrupulously color-coordinated and art-directed compositions, it’s less surprising that Wes Anderson has gotten around…
After a decade navigating Hollywood, John Woo returned to China to make his latest film, but scale back he did…
In her broad outlines, Claireece Precious Jones risks sounding like the epitome of ghetto cliché: an obese, illiterate 16-year-old; mother…
Nothing if not consistent, Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre director Jared Hess once again presents adolescence as a depressive, outsider…
Seventy-one years after Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds radio broadcast snookered a gullible American public with its real-time alien-invasion…
The title is a double entendre in An Education, the film version of British journalist Lynn Barber’s memoir about the…
Like its bifurcated title, Ulrich Seidl’s film offers an exercise in parallel storytelling, tracing the journeys of Olga (the excellent…
Casually dismissed by those who place a premium on things like narrative, visual lucidity, and editorial smoothness, writer/director/emotional exhibitionist/mumblecore forefather…
Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Why? Because it’s thick with sludge. Moving briskly through a serpentine,…
Commissioned by the Eurostar train company as part of the promotional campaign for its new high-speed rail service from London…
Early in Shane Acker’s computer-animated debut feature 9, a diminutive anthropomorphic whatsit with wooden hands, copper fingers, and the titular…
The aliens have been with us for 20 years already at the start of South African director Neill Blomkamp’s fast…
At the same moment that directors like Peter Weir and Gillian Armstrong were earning festival kudos and critical acclaim for…
