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Brillante Mendoza's Newest, Tirador, Is Feverishly Absorbing Tirador
, July 20, 2010
With its frenzied depiction of a desperate economic climate, its turbulent handheld camerawork that sticks close to the cluttered streets of... More>>
Countdown to Zero Uses Fear and Optimism in Discussing The Bomb Countdown to Zero
, July 20, 2010
The title of Lucy Walker's pro-nuclear-disarmament tract Countdown to Zero has two meanings: a paranoiac's ticking off down the last moments... More>>
Victor Nunez Returns With New Family Drama Spoken Word Spoken Word
, July 20, 2010
Scarcely heard from since he helmed two mid-1990s indie hits (Ruby in Paradise, Ulee's Gold), Victor Nunez's new family drama plays like a musty... More>>
With Inception, Can Christopher Nolan Save the Summer? With Inception, Can Christopher Nolan Save the Summer?
, July 13, 2010
Christopher Nolan doesn't wear a black cape (though he is partial to a finely tailored dark suit) and, to the best of my knowledge, harbors no... More>>
The Dream Is Dead: Inception Fails to Get Inside Our Head Inception
, July 13, 2010
Inception is a chilling trip into the psyche . . . of writer-director Christopher Nolan, an Anglo-American action director who shattered the... More>>
Almost Paradise: Inferno's Hell, Alamar's Heaven Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
, July 13, 2010
Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907–1977) once personified a commercial cinema of quality, having produced and directed France's two great... More>>
With 'Anti-Biopics,' Anthology Refuses to Walk the Line Anti-Biopics
, July 13, 2010
A series defined as a protest against the Oscar-winning Great Men narratives, in which contemporary celebrities passably reproduce dead... More>>
No Happily Ever After for Kids of Kisses Kisses
, July 13, 2010
Strictly speaking, the two scrappy Irish kids in Lance Daly's Kisses aren't homeless, but in every sense that matters, they have only each other... More>>
The Sorcerer's Apprentice: More Magical Than Expected The Sorcerer's Apprentice
, July 13, 2010
Named for the last good outing by Walt Disney's rodent mascot, this Bruckheimer-produced Apprentice pays homage to Mickey's dancing mops, but... More>>
Valhalla Rising, Where the One-Eyed Man Is King. Or Something. Valhalla Rising
, July 13, 2010
After the increasingly black comic violence of his Pusher trilogy and Bronson, Danish director Nicholas Winding Refn—who apparently never... More>>
To Age or Not to Age: That Is the (Fairly Unexamined) Question To Age or Not to Age
, July 13, 2010
'I become a serial expert on whatever idea interests me," explains director Robert Kane Pappas at the beginning of his not-quite-essay film To... More>>
Mystery Without a Mystery, The Contenders Is DOA The Contenders
, July 13, 2010
This slice of wooden wannabe Strindberg begins with what's meant as a thrilling opening-line teaser: "When did you realize she was dead?" But it... More>>
Clint Eastwood, Who He Wants To Be The Complete Clint Eastwood
Honoring the Man With No Name at Lincoln Center
, July 06, 2010
How Clint Eastwood went from being the Man With No Name to the eponymous subject of a giant retro at Lincoln Center is a tale as elementally... More>>
Anthology Celebrates the Four Boroughs The Outer Boroughs on Film
Forget Manhattan. "The Outer Boroughs on Film" celebrates the Bronx, Brooklyn, SI, and Queens
, July 06, 2010
A fascinating collection of rarely screened documentaries, many made in the midst of New York City's fiscal catastrophe of the 1970s and '80s,... More>>
Lesbian Family Values in The Kids Are All Right The Kids Are All Right
Two moms, two kids, and a sperm donor make one all-American movie
, July 06, 2010
Serious comedy, powered by an enthusiastic cast and full of good-natured innuendo, Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right gives adolescent... More>>
Winnebago Man: YouTube Hero. Or Zero. Winnebago Man
Is 'the angriest man in the world' still mad? Filmmaker Ben Steinbauer goes looking for the answer.
, July 06, 2010
Opening with a deeply sincere "I don't give a fuck!" Austin filmmaker Ben Steinbauer's investigative doc Winnebago Man sets out to prove the... More>>
The Childish, Funny, 3-D Delights of Silly Despicable Me Despicable Me
, July 06, 2010
As the lights were dimming before a preview screening of Despicable Me, the six-year-old who lives in my house leaned over and said, “I hope... More>>
Rivette Gets the Gang Back Together Again for Around a Small Mountain Around a Small Mountain
, July 06, 2010
Around a Small Mountain travels with an itinerant one-ring circus of proud artisans, performing to shrinking rural crowds. "We're the last... More>>
The Girl Who Played With Fire Suffers Sophomore Slump. Sorry, Stieg Larsson. The Girl Who Played With Fire
, July 06, 2010
This grim and bloody adaptation of the second volume of the late Stieg Larsson's bestselling Millennium trilogy—featuring journalist Mikael... More>>
Higher Budget [Lamer Results] for Horror Sequel [REC] 2 [REC] 2
, July 06, 2010
The de facto highlight of the horrific [REC] 2—the 28-minutes-later sequel to the Spanish zombie flick Americanized as... More>>
Predators, a Robert Rodriguez-Produced Sequel Predators
This action-flick's pretense is like "Satisfaction" for bar cover-bands—if you hit most of the notes, it'll do
, July 06, 2010
This Robert Rodriguez–produced sequel goes back into the bush to follow 1987's Predator—a sci-fi horror that put the multi-megaton... More>>
Red Alert: The War Within Red Alert: The War Within
Little more to offer than a limp, global entreaty to "stop the violence." Good luck with that.

, July 06, 2010
A ripped-from-the-headlines drama about India's Naxalite-Maoist insurgency, Red Alert: The War Within arrives amid a recent surge of violent... More>>
The Pressure's On for Pre-Teen Speed Racers in Racing Dreams Racing Dreams
, July 06, 2010
With a title designed to recall Steve James's classic sports aspiration doc Hoop Dreams, and an understanding of what's at stake in its... More>>
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector, Pop Mastermind and Raging Ego The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector
Serving 19 years to life. Da doo ron ron.
, June 29, 2010
A feature-length portrait of a pop music genius as (pre-)convicted murderer, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector lives up to its grandiose... More>>
Talking With The Kids Are All Right Director Lisa Cholodenko Talking With The Kids Are All Right Director Lisa Cholodenko
About making a traditional (lesbian) domestic comedy for the sperm-donor age
, June 29, 2010
In The Kids Are All Right, two affluent hyper-parents fret about their marriage as well as their teenaged children, the elder of whom is leaving... More>>
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