Judd Apatow and Adam Sandler, together at last in Funny People.
By Scott Foundas
Thursday, July 30
After devoting his first two films as director, The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up, to getting laid and having kids, respectively, Judd Apatow... More >>
Despite its premise (and title), Humpday isn't really about gay sex.
By J. Hoberman
Thursday, July 30
Lynn Shelton's Humpday, a sexual sitcom, opens with a pair of breeders in bed. A youngish married couple, Ben (mumblecordeon Mark Duplass) and... More >>
Documenting an epic concert in Zaire, Soul Power puts on quite a show.
By Ernest Hardy
Thursday, July 30
"When you bad," boasts the young and beautiful, piss-and-vinegar-filled Muhammad Ali early in the documentary Soul Power, "you can do what you... More >>
As unconventional as the warfare it depicts, The Hurt Locker is a ticking time bomb of a movie.
By Scott Foundas
Thursday, July 23
Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker is a full-throttle body shock of a movie. It gets inside you like a virus, puts your nerves in a... More >>
And that pain will last (500) Days, but in a good way.
By Robert Wilonsky
Thursday, July 23
On the surface, (500) Days of Summer really is no different from, oh, let's say The Proposal, in which Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock spun... More >>
Any movie featuring children under ten is a movie wherein documentary bids to trump fiction and behavior can eclipse acting. The 1934 New Deal... More >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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