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The International
Bail Out This Movie

By Scott Foundas

Thursday, February 12

Tom Tykwer's The International is one of those movies in which shadowy men meet in parked cars, abandoned buildings and inconspicuous public... More >>
Confessions of a Shopaholic
Bush and this movie agree: Go shopping! (Wait, don't.)

By Anderson, Melissa

Thursday, February 12

The Confessions of a Shopaholic we need right now would be a handheld doc featuring former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain sobbing into the camera... More >>
He's Just Not That Into You
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dating

By Ella Taylor

Thursday, February 05

The smirky, overbearing and subliminally hostile romantic primer He's Just Not That Into You — which sold a regrettable two million copies... More >>
Coraline
Things are not as they seem in Henry Selick's stunning stop-motion fairy tale

By Scott Foundas

Thursday, February 05

If Alice in Wonderland were retold by the Mad Hatter, it might look something like Henry Selick's 3-D, stop-motion Coraline, in which the bored,... More >>
Fanboys
Millennium Albatross

By Robert Wilonsky

Thursday, February 05

Fanboys is meant for the dude who's content to simply stare at an Imperial stormtrooper's empty helmet for 90 minutes. It's for the two childhood... More >>
New in Town
Renee Zellweger as the anti-Norma Rae

By Miller, Brian

Thursday, January 29

She's too thin. She's a bobblehead. Her forehead doesn't move. Where has that Jerry Maguire girl gone, the one we once knew and loved? Did the... More >>
Inkheart
Nothing like a bad book adaptation to turn kids on to the written word

By Nick Pinkerton

Thursday, January 22

Brendan "Kids' Choice" Fraser returns to the multiplex day care as "Mo" Folchart, antiquarian-book-repairman-cum-adventurer. In... More >>
Che
Soderbergh's two Che Guevara films in one four-hour sitting

By J. Hoberman

Thursday, January 15

Richard Nixon will always be part of America's dreamlife, with or without David Frost; the Bush II legacy will linger for years, even as W.... More >>
Waltz with Bashir
This is both documentary and animated feature — and a remarkable bubbling up of repressed violence

By J. Hoberman

Thursday, January 15

Ari Folman's broodingly original Waltz with Bashir is a documentary that seems only possible, not to mention bearable, as an animated... More >>
Defiance
Hollywood plunders meaning from the Holocaust – again

By Ella Taylor

Thursday, January 15

Will there be a special Academy Award for Best Aryan Costume Design this year? Everywhere you turn in the movies, it's swastika flags and SS... More >>
Notorious
Notorious B.I.G., made B.L.A.N.D.

By Robert Wilonsky

Thursday, January 15

Notorious, about a crack dealer who becomes an iconic rapper who becomes a tragic legend, is the first film George Tillman Jr. has directed since... More >>
Gran Torino
Clint Eastwood finds salvation

By Scott Foundas

Thursday, January 08

Walt Kowalski growls a lot — a dyspeptic rumble that wells up from deep inside his belly when he catches sight of his midriff-baring... More >>
Revolutionary Road
Winslet and DiCaprio awake to the nightmare

By Scott Foundas

Thursday, January 08

No writer ever gazed deeper or more despairingly into the prison of middle-class American conformity than Richard Yates, which may explain why... More >>
The Unborn
Raiding the modern horror memory bank, from The Exorcist to Auschwitz

By Nick Pinkerton

Thursday, January 08

For as long as it forges ahead without explanations, The Unborn works in its way, as a series of snap-cut gotchas introducing each new contestant... More >>
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Old Man Pitt

By Scott Foundas

Thursday, December 25

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