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Brüno
Sacha Baron Cohen's in queerface. But what's Brüno's real target?

By J. Hoberman

Thursday, July 09

"Heterosexuals can't understand camp because everything they do is camp," opined an associate of the old Playhouse of the Ridiculous, a New York... More >>
Public Enemies
Johnny Depp is superb as John Dillinger in the fast and furious Public Enemies.

By Scott Foundas

Thursday, July 02

"They're all about where people come from. Nobody seems to wonder where somebody's going." So says the Depression-era bank-robber-cum-folk-hero... More >>
Whatever Works
Not even the great Larry David can salvage Woody's shtick.

By J. Hoberman

Thursday, July 02

Character is destiny — at least for Woody Allen's Whatever Works. Allen's exercise in Woody Allen nostalgia opens with a snatch of Groucho... More >>
My Sister's Keeper
My Sister's Keeper is honest about illness, false about everything else.

By Nick Pinkerton

Thursday, June 25

Eleven-year-old Anna Fitzgerald's parents didn't just plan for her — they customized her in utero, with the specific end of providing spare... More >>
The Proposal
The Proposal merges in the memory with a thousand other films just like it until it loses all identity of its own.

By Robert Wilonsky

Thursday, June 18

Fifteen minutes after seeing The Proposal, I'd forgotten I'd seen The Proposal. Well, that's not entirely true: By then, it had simply merged in... More >>
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Why was this movie remade?

By Jim Ridley

Thursday, June 11

Want to know how a city works? Start by watching 1974's The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, a primer in which subway hijackers test how long... More >>
Away We Go
Have screenplay, will travel: Dave Eggers makes his film writing debut with Away We Go.

By Scott Foundas

Thursday, June 11

Midway through A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers's solipsistic, terminally-apologetic-for-being-solipsistic... More >>
Outrage
Kirby Dick outs closeted pols and the media that protect them.

By Scott Foundas

Thursday, June 11

Director Kirby Dick doesn't actually stick his camera under any Capitol Hill bathroom stalls in the new documentary Outrage, but his goal is more... More >>
The Hangover
The Hangover is almost as funny as Old School.

By Jim Ridley

Thursday, June 04

What Fletch was to plaid-checked water-cooler wits in the '80s, what National Lampoon's Van Wilder was to college-bound douches at the dawn of... More >>
Drag Me to Hell
Hell is much more fun. Sam Raimi is back with Drag Me to Hell.

By Nick Pinkerton

Thursday, May 28

Sam Raimi wants to go home again. Often a drifting virtuoso in the years before finding his Spider Man gig, with Drag Me to Hell Raimi defaults... More >>
Up
Up soars in entirely unexpected ways.

By Robert Wilonsky

Thursday, May 28

First of all, Up is not a movie about a cranky old coot who, with the help of a roly-poly Boy Scout, finds his inner child during a series of... More >>
The Brothers Bloom
Despite its stylish trappings, The Brothers Bloom is no joke.

By Robert Wilonsky

Thursday, May 28

Writer-director Rian Johnson fashions a universe in which time is a fluid thing — where everything takes place in a familiar today and an... More >>
Terminator Salvation
From McG's Terminator, that is. What a drag.

By Nick Pinkerton

Thursday, May 21

Both warning and advertisement, the Terminator films are technophobic teases, selling tickets by promising this decade's model of killing... More >>
The Limits of Control
Wandering Spain with the lone wolf of Jim Jarmusch's Limits of Control.

By J. Hoberman

Thursday, May 21

Jim Jarmusch's anonymous antihero hitman (French-Ivorian actor Isaach De Bankolé), identified in the credits of The Limits of Control as... More >>
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Revealed: Everything you wanted to know — or didn't — about Canuck headbangers Anvil.<

By Camille Dodero

Thursday, May 21

And now for the story of Lips and the dildo. Back in the late '70s, before Guitar Hero III or Rock of Love 2 or even VH1, a jolly Canadian... More >>
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