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 Youth in Revolt fails to find a worthy film adaptation C.D. Payne's novel and actor Michael Cera fall flat on screen
For years Hollywood has wrestled with adapting C.D. Payne's 1993 novel Youth in Revolt—which actually was three novels collected under one... More>>
Published: January 06, 2010
 Film Highlight: Ed Wood
Like director Edward D. Wood Jr.'s own odes to the outcast, Tim Burton's highly personal takes on genre have often been accused of narrative... More>>
Published: January 06, 2010
 Year in Film '09: Clint Eastwood, Jason Reitman, and more Plus: Our favorite picks of the year
Read the articles in this week's year-end feature package, the Year in Film:
Up in the Air Director Jason Reitman Gets Grounded by Scott... More>>
Published: December 30, 2009
 Film Highlight: Big Fan
It takes considerable effort to make Darren Aronofsky seem like a model of restraint, but Robert Siegel pulls it off in Big Fan. Siegel's... More>>
Published: December 30, 2009
 Nancy Meyers's It's Complicated churns out weak women Even Meryl Streep's character is a high-strung, sex-starved nag
Does Nancy Meyers hate women? The thought ran through my head not very long into It's Complicated, Meyers's biennial stocking-stuffer about the... More>>
Published: December 23, 2009
 Filim Highlight: Ronia, the Robber's Daughter
To mark Ronia's 25th anniversary, Oak Street unveils a new print of this 1984 telling of the classic Astrid Lindgren fantasy, which deigns to... More>>
Published: December 23, 2009
 James Cameron's Avatar glitters in the first half Titanic director's $25M movie cannot subsist on 3-D alone
The money is on the screen in Avatar, James Cameron's mega-3-D, mondo-CGI, more-than-a-quarter-billion-dollar baby, and, like the Hope diamond... More>>
Published: December 16, 2009
 Sebastián Silva's The Maid challenges our sympathies Director shot film in the house he grew up in
Cleanliness may be next to godliness, but for the title character of the pitch-black Chilean comedy The Maid, it's closer to an infernal torment.... More>>
Published: December 16, 2009
 Film Highlight: Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Riverview presents its fifth annual screening of the complete Rings trilogy, including the extended director's cuts of the first two films.... More>>
Published: December 16, 2009
 Clint Eastwood's Invictus stars Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela With one huge problem: Film doesn't tell the whole truth
Aside from Morgan Freeman, who makes a fabulous Nelson Mandela, there's this to savor about Invictus, a rosy tale of racial reconciliation neatly... More>>
Published: December 09, 2009
 Film Highlight: Let The Right One In
This lucid Swedish indie gem, adapted for the screen by John Ajvide Lindqvist from his novel and directed with imagination and restraint by Tomas... More>>
Published: December 09, 2009
 George Clooney in Up in the Air Juno director Jason Reitman is in the pilot seat
There is something oddly familiar about Jason Reitman's Up in the Air, in which George Clooney plays a commitment-phobic business traveler with... More>>
Published: December 02, 2009
 Film Highlight: Minneapolis Underground Film Festival
This year's showcase of more than 40 little-known or -seen films opens Friday night with the world premiere of The Seducer, a modern retelling of... More>>
Published: December 02, 2009
 The Road takes the path of least resistance Viggo Mortenson leads the cast and Nick Cave provides the score in Hillcoat's unpleasant saga
The Road, Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning, Oprah-endorsed, post-apocalyptic survivalist prose poem—in which a father and his... More>>
Published: November 25, 2009
 Film Highlight: Fantastic Mr. Fox
Working with his Life Aquatic co-writer (and The Squid and the Whale director) Noah Baumbach, Wes Anderson has added an existential layer to the... More>>
Published: November 25, 2009
 Precious packs wallop with story of obese black woman's struggle Mo'Nique truly shines in Lee Daniels's film
In her broad outlines, Claireece Precious Jones risks sounding like the epitome of ghetto cliché: an obese, illiterate 16-year-old; mother... More>>
Published: November 18, 2009
 Film Highlight: The Messenger
I'm Not There screenwriter Oren Moverman makes his directorial debut with The Messenger, a moving and nuanced drama about the home-front... More>>
Published: November 18, 2009
 Pirate Radio finally washes ashore in the U.S. Even Philip Seymour Hoffman can't save this sinking ship
Seven months after its theatrical release in the U.K., and two months after its DVD debut there, Pirate Radio washes ashore in U.S. theaters with... More>>
Published: November 11, 2009
 Film Highlight: Skin
If ever there were a true-life tale that laid bare the laws of South African apartheid in all their arbitrary lunacy, it's the one dramatized in... More>>
Published: November 11, 2009
 The Men Who Stare at Goats is as boring it sounds George Clooney-fronted film tries for farce but forgets the funny
Historical cataclysm produces conspiratorial thinking: Germany's loss in World War I, the JFK assassination, and 9/11 are all naturally... More>>
Published: November 04, 2009
 Film Highlight: Flame & Citron
Of all European nations, Denmark enjoys the nearest thing to a heroic record of resisting the Nazi occupiers—which adds both poignancy and... More>>
Published: November 04, 2009
 An Education and star Carey Mulligan get good marks Sundance hit is classily directed nostalgia trip
The title is a double entendre in An Education, the film version of British journalist Lynn Barber's memoir about the crash course she received... More>>
Published: October 28, 2009
 Film Highlight: Halloween
Pity the teenage movie fan who thinks Scream is the Rosetta stone of horror. If only he or she could've seen John Carpenter's peerless... More>>
Published: October 28, 2009
 Cirque du Freak is a really sucky vampire movie Film is half-assed attempt to sell popcorn
Like the ominous fingernail moon early on in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, the bloodsucker trend is again in a waxing phase thanks to... More>>
Published: October 21, 2009
 Highlight: Revanche
This deliberate, meticulous heist-gone-wrong flick eschews all the usual excitement of crime movies. Instead, Austrian writer-director Götz... More>>
Published: October 21, 2009
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