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Extract
With Extract, Mike Judge goes back to work.

By Robert Wilonsky

Thursday, September 03

Mike Judge began writing the screenplay for Extract not long after Office Space opened and closed in a matter of weeks in the late winter of... More >>
Cold Souls
Paul Giamatti's wit is the heart of Cold Souls.

By Anthony, Kaufman

Thursday, September 03

Sophie Barthes's clever metaphysical comedy Cold Souls has been dubbed "Being Paul Giamatti" more than once since its Sundance 2009 debut. But if... More >>
Quentin Tarantino
Two decades after the severed ear of Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino serves up Hitler's head on a plate.

By Ella Taylor

Thursday, August 27

Seventeen years ago, when Reservoir Dogs was setting American cinema on fire, Quentin Tarantino drove up to his favorite watering hole, a... More >>
Taking Woodstock
Who knew three days of peace & music would oppress us for 40 years? (Plus: this movie)

By Melissa Anderson

Thursday, August 27

"If you remember Woodstock, you probably weren't there," the expression goes. And if you were, can you please stop gassing on about it? Aquarian... More >>
Thirst
Park Chan-wook gets positively trendy with his latest: a vampire pic!

By Jim Ridley

Thursday, August 27

Finally, there's a vampire movie worthy of the title The Hunger — even if it arrives under the more potable name Thirst. Carnal appetite,... More >>
Jerichow
Love is a battlefield in the powerful Postman rethink Jerichow

By Melissa Anderson

Thursday, August 27

Retooled noir with less pulp than its original source, Christian Petzold's Jerichow wryly riffs on The Postman Always Rings Twice for... More >>
Inglourious Basterds
In a triumph of his will, Tarantino makes Holocaust revisionism ridiculously fun in Inglourious Basterds.

By J. Hoberman

Thursday, August 20

Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment — rich in fantasy... More >>
District 9
Alien invasion as apartheid metaphor? It works in District 9.

By Scott Foundas

Thursday, August 13

The aliens have been with us for 20 years already at the start of South African director Neill Blomkamp's fast and furiously inventive... More >>
Tetro
Papa Coppola returns, successfully, to the clan in Tetro.

By J. Hoberman

Thursday, August 13

As Tetro, Francis Ford Coppola's baroque genealogical melodrama, reaches its appropriately hysterical denouement, Vincent Gallo fixes his pale... More >>
In the Loop
Spoofing the run-up to war, In the Loop is political satire done right.

By Robert Wilonsky

Thursday, August 06

In the Loop doesn't necessarily mean you're in the know. In Armando Iannucci's movie, a satire of the run-up to war with a Middle Eastern... More >>
Julie & Julia
In praise of the Julia half of Julie & Julia.

By Robert Wilonsky

Thursday, August 06

It was the best of movies. It was the worst of movies. Which is to say: There's half of a great movie in Julie & Julia — but since Meryl... More >>
The Cove
The Cove expertly exposes the horrific treatment of dolphins, but what about the uglies?

By Ella Taylor

Thursday, August 06

Late in the infectiously frisky documentary The Cove, an older man calmly gate-crashes an international conference on whaling with a television... More >>
Funny People
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 >>
Humpday
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 >>
Soul Power
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 >>
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