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Mr. Blood Red, Vol. 2
Two decades after the severed ear of Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino serves up Hitler's head on a plate.
Seventeen years ago, when Reservoir Dogs was setting American cinema on fire, Quentin Tarantino drove up to his favorite watering hole, a... More>>
Published: August 20, 2009
 Quentin's Final Solution! In a triumph of his will, Tarantino makes Holocaust revisionism ridiculously fun in Inglourious Basterds.
Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment — rich in fantasy... More>>
Published: August 20, 2009
 Divide and Conquer Alien invasion as apartheid metaphor? It works in District 9.
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>>
Published: August 13, 2009
 Family Business Papa Coppola returns, successfully, to the clan in Tetro.
As Tetro, Francis Ford Coppola's baroque genealogical melodrama, reaches its appropriately hysterical denouement, Vincent Gallo fixes his pale... More>>
Published: August 13, 2009
 Not Bad for Government Work Spoofing the run-up to war, In the Loop is political satire done right.
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>>
Published: August 06, 2009
 Top Chef In praise of the Julia half of Julie & Julia.
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>>
Published: August 06, 2009
 Free Willy. Seriously. The Cove expertly exposes the horrific treatment of dolphins, but what about the uglies?
Late in the infectiously frisky documentary The Cove, an older man calmly gate-crashes an international conference on whaling with a television... More>>
Published: August 06, 2009
 It's a Wacky Life Judd Apatow and Adam Sandler, together at last in Funny People.
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>>
Published: July 30, 2009
 Man to Man Despite its premise (and title), Humpday isn't really about gay sex.
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>>
Published: July 30, 2009
 That Other Rumble in the Jungle Documenting an epic concert in Zaire, Soul Power puts on quite a show.
"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>>
Published: July 30, 2009
 Set to Explode As unconventional as the warfare it depicts, The Hurt Locker is a ticking time bomb of a movie.
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>>
Published: July 23, 2009
 Love Hurts And that pain will last (500) Days, but in a good way.
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>>
Published: July 23, 2009
 Prince of Darkness That old black Potter magic continues to beguile in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Don't let the PG rating fool you: The dark arts are back with a vengeance in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the generally grim,... More>>
Published: July 16, 2009
 What It Feels Like for a Girl Pitch-perfect child performances root Treeless Mountain.
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>>
Published: July 16, 2009
 Totally Gay for You Sacha Baron Cohen's in queerface. But what's Brüno's real target?
"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>>
Published: July 09, 2009
 Mann on the Run Johnny Depp is superb as John Dillinger in the fast and furious Public Enemies.
"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>>
Published: July 02, 2009
 Enthusiasm, Curbed Not even the great Larry David can salvage Woody's shtick.
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>>
Published: July 02, 2009
 Dying in Vain My Sister's Keeper is honest about illness, false about everything else.
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>>
Published: June 25, 2009
 Victim of Circumstance The Proposal merges in the memory with a thousand other films just like it until it loses all identity of its own.
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>>
Published: June 18, 2009
 The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 Why was this movie remade?
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>>
Published: June 11, 2009
 Staggering Something Have screenplay, will travel: Dave Eggers makes his film writing debut with Away We Go.
Midway through A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers's solipsistic, terminally-apologetic-for-being-solipsistic... More>>
Published: June 11, 2009
 J'Accuse! Kirby Dick outs closeted pols and the media that protect them.
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>>
Published: June 11, 2009
 Vegas, Babies The Hangover is almost as funny as Old School.
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>>
Published: June 04, 2009
 Heaven Can Wait Hell is much more fun. Sam Raimi is back with Drag Me to Hell.
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>>
Published: May 28, 2009
 Grounded Up soars in entirely unexpected ways.
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>>
Published: May 28, 2009
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