Instead of reinventing the procedural mechanics of the serial-killer drama, filmmaker Christian Alvert adds to its current state of retardation... More>>
Don't be fooled by the CGI-laden, Narnia-lite trailers for Bridge to Terabithia: Far from a computer generated escapist fantasy, this film is an... More>>
With at least the virtue of novelty on its side, Vidi Bilu and Dalia Hager's debut outing as writer-directors tackles the claustrophobic world of... More>>
Two Nutty Professor movies and Eddie Murphy still hasn't gotten the split- personality shtick out of his system. Original nut Jerry Lewis would... More>>
Ticket buyers to Factory Girl are in for a drag; not even the drag queens will like it. Cookie-cut from the biopic assembly line, this life and... More>>
Two filmsone sentimental, the other starklook back on East Berlin's culture of suspicion and surveillance
J. Hoberman,
January 30, 2007
The Lives of Others has a superbly alienated title and a quintessentially 20th-century premise. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's first feature... More>>
Annually slotted in January's frigid tail-end, when film professionals are still skiing in Utah or packing for Berlin, the International Film... More>>
Burning Annie, the anxiously auspicious debut of director Van Flesher and writer Zack Ordynans, would be far too clever for its own good were the... More>>
Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is arguably the most iconic female villain in film history. The miscasting of... More>>
Though it exists neither to boost nor defy the war in Iraq, Operation Homecoming is not without political objective. Drawing inspiration from a... More>>
Depictions of upper-middle class African-American life are such a rare screen commodity that one wants to give a movie like Constellation every... More>>
Unexpectedly revived thirtysomething years after its theatrical run, The Pied Piper
, Jacques Demy's 1972 retelling of the Grimms' tale, is more... More>>
Transgressive Japanese documentarian ignores boundaries, finds truth
Ed Halter,
January 23, 2007
Though it displays not a single dead body, gory gash, or bombed-out building, and limits its on-screen violence to heated arguments and abortive... More>>
In the small pantheon of successful women screenwriters, Susannah Grant is aristocracy. But the muscular dialogue that fed so many great lines to... More>>
"I've had a tough life," says Magyori, a female musician and rapper featured in East of Havana, a vital look at Cuba's tenaciously grassroots... More>>