Portrait of an American family, stuck from one Halloween to the next
By Karina Longworth,
February 09, 2010
The white, working-class, Upstate New York dead-end of Mohawk Valley is surely not the milieu metal frontman Al Jourgensen had in mind when he... More>>
So many stars, so many storylines, looking for love in all the wrong places
By Karina Longworth,
February 09, 2010
In Pretty Woman, director Garry Marshall's personal cinematic high score, the opening credits close (and the closing credits open) with the voice... More>>
A stale vibe is only one of the problems pervading Erik Gandini's documentary about the pathological symbiosis between unregulated media control... More>>
The case for (and against) The Holocaust Industry author Norman Finkelstein
By Ella Taylor,
February 09, 2010
Noam Chomsky reveres him. Leon Wieseltier hates him. Alan Dershowitz called him an anti-Semite and applied successful pressure to deny him tenure... More>>
In 1966, Swiss painter Ernst Aebi moved to the U.S. and began making money off his Bosch-on-acid nightmare drawings, then made a great deal more... More>>
A contemporary crime drama edged with Greek tragedy, Ajami is an untidy, despairing, oddly exhilarating joint venture by writer-directors Scandar... More>>
In 1972, at the age of 23, Karen Cooper took over the two-year-old Film Forum when, as she recalls, "it was a little hole-in-the wall on West... More>>
Poland on the cusp, in 10 politically charged films
By Michael Atkinson,
February 02, 2010
This moody sample-platter of Polish movies, all made between 1977 and 1982 as the unionizing Solidarity movement gained ground and power, hone in... More>>
As personal assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to France, James Reese (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) can keep himself in well-tailored suits and keep his... More>>
Fresh after his painful buffoonery in The Spy Next Door, Jackie Chan tacks the opposite direction in this tough yet conventional Tokyo-set crime... More>>
After waving a gun around at home, young Copenhagen cop Robert Hansen (Jakob Cedergren) is shipped to the South Jutland flatlands to cool off as... More>>
The subject of gay Orthodox Jews isn't new to film, but it's typically the stuff of documentaries (2001's Trembling Before G-d, among others). So... More>>
Remember how abandoned you felt when Open Water's scuba diving couple were left behind in the ocean to die? Well now you can feel it all over... More>>
Every Sunday afternoon, Marjorie Eliot hosts a jazz concert in her Harlem living room. Strangers file in, fill up a few dozen folding chairs, and... More>>
"Did you shoot my daughtah?" is the question posed, in flat-voweled Bostonian, in the trailer for Edge of Darkness. And Mel Gibson, much-bereaved... More>>
Israel seems to have its own form of prestige cinema, where tortured suicide bombers and rending intergenerational conflict signal what period... More>>
October Country's Days of the Living Dead 
Gary Marshall's Valentine's Day Massacre! 
Bene Brocani Schifano at Anthology and To Die for Tano at Cinema Village 
Reality TV, Italian-style, in Videocracy 
On American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein 
Ernst Aebi's Intensity Lost in Barefoot to Timbuktu's Translation
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February 09, 2010
Aamir Khan's College Comedy, 3 Idiots
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February 09, 2010
The Intractable Israeli Situation as Crime Drama in Ajami
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February 02, 2010
Sontag's Promised Lands at Anthology
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February 02, 2010
Film Forum's Karen Cooper on the Secret to Her Success
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February 02, 2010
Four Books, Three Films, and a Rotten Yorkshire in Red Riding Trilogy
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February 02, 2010
'Storm Warnings: Resistance and Reflection in Polish Cinema' at Walter Reade 
John Travolta's Cowboy Diplomacy in From Paris With Love 
District 13: Ultimatum Seeks the International Xbox Demo
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February 02, 2010
Jackie Chan's Shinjuku Incident
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February 02, 2010
Henrik Ruben Genz's Simmering Terribly Happy
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February 02, 2010
The Understated Eyes Wide Open
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February 02, 2010
Frozen's Charmless Characters Try Inane Ideas
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February 02, 2010
The Unrewarding, Middlebrow Falling Awake
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February 02, 2010
Pioneering Coming Out Doc Word Is Out at Anthology
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January 26, 2010
The Safdie Brothers Hit Sundance (and BAM) with Daddy Long Legs
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January 26, 2010
Revenge for Mel Gibson in Edge of Darkness
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January 26, 2010
For My Father, Old-School Social Melodrama (Plus Bombs)
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January 26, 2010
The Sharp, Nasty 44 Inch Chest
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January 26, 2010
