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There are times during the affecting tumult of What Maisie Knew when you may think, "At last, a first-rate American movie about what... More >>
"Today I can't help feeling that the entire planet is on the verge of becoming ground zero," Velcrow Ripper declares in the opening minutes of... More >>
If you plant your feet on the ground and imagine burrowing straight down through crust and magma and then right through the Earth’s... More >>
One of the most beguiling of the many stories all knotted up in Salman Rushdie's brilliant, baggy, exhausting 1981 novel Midnight's... More >>
If you and your quite good-looking soul got locked in a hotel room together, would you be able to resist making out? That imponderable is one... More >>
Has anyone ever been so perfectly cast as Matthew McConaughey in Dazed and Confused? Sculpted entirely of charisma and... More >>
Toward the end of Dark Touch, a girls-gone-Carrie nightmare of flying knives and pencil-porcupined corpses, director Marina de... More >>
“Least you got to see a motherfucker crucify himself,” Richard Pryor spits in the most surprising footage director Marina Zenovich... More >>
The good news: Here's a lavish, serious science-fiction picture, one that on occasion transcends big-budget hit-making convention to glance... More >>
Turns out, Ricky Jay is one of those guys who has to sit in the restaurant with his back to the wall. That's not just because the... More >>
Half a year later, now on Blu-ray and DVD, Django Unchained is... More >>
At any prior point in TV history, Rectify, a six-part... More >>
Here’s a test you can take to help determine whether shelling out $150-plus for the Motown musical is for you. Head on over to YouTube,... More >>
A likable hagiography as nuanced as a plaque at the Cooperstown Hall of Fame, Brian Helgeland's Jackie Robinson bio 42 finds a politic... More >>
Perhaps the first great indie apocalypse potluck comedy, Todd Berger's It's a Disaster aces many of the fundamentals bobbled by too... More >>
Forever on fire with fear of God, unburdened by literacy or expectations of a life that might extend past the thirties, ruled by day and night... More >>
Identity theft! Cyber bullying! Runaway teens doing lurid cam shows! This ambitious, multi-storied, state-of-us-all ensemble drama plumbs our... More >>
"They do move in herds," Sam Neill marvels, purportedly gazing at his director's miracle dinosaurs but in reality directing his... More >>
Again and again, movies show you killing, but it's one in a thousand on-screen killings that might get you to feel something of what killing... More >>
If real life were like Wrong, Quentin Dupieux's sweetly unnerving experiment in ambient fucked-uppedness, your phone would ring before... More >>
What must Bruce Willis have felt when he discovered that his seven or so minutes of G.I. Joe: Retaliation screen time offer much more... More >>
Across America this weekend, wives and girlfriends will accompany their fellas to GI Joe: Retaliation, as boys-shooting-boys movies are... More >>
Something all-too rare is squandered in Leonie: an ambitious lead performance by the stellar Emily Mortimer, that fiery swan so often... More >>
Look, before we venture into what could be considered spoiler territory, let's just say this: My Brother the Devil, Sally El Hosaini's... More >>
Like the blood that gushes forth from the elevators of the Overlook Hotel, brilliant/ridiculous theories of what Stanley Kubrick’s... More >>
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