Paul Giamatti

Turbo's Cheerful and Hackneyed Kids' Tale

'Uke Night'

Whodunit in the Thriller John Dies at the End? The '90s

Spoiler Alert

Falling Man: David Cronenberg's Vision of Cosmopolis

Rock of Ages Posits Hair Metal as Something Un-awful

Corporate rock still sucks

For Shame: Our 10 Favorite Swinging Dicks of Films Past

Intrigue Drowns Out Argument in Political Thriller Ides of March

Boys and Their Combat Toys in 13th-Century Knights' Tale Ironclad

Bros Roofie-ing Bros, Again, in The Hangover Part II

The 10 Best Original Songs From 21st Century Films

Earlier today, the National released a video for the song "Think You Can Wait," from the "quirky" Paul Giamatti film Win Win. The video is a misguided combination of film dialogue transposed over a staged performance (the YouTube comments have already begun trashing it, and Matt Berninger's voice ... More >>

Indie Edges Sanded Down Completely in Win Win

Lesser Version

Mordecai Richler gets a downgrade

Harvey Pekar, R.I.P.

​Let's just say that the Perpetual Misery of Cleveland has been in the news again lately, and acknowledge that no one was better at a) articulating it and b) rising above it than Harvey Pekar.

Chatting With Ample Hills Creamery's Brian Smith About Directing Obama and Using Anthony Bourdain as His Internal Critic

Ample Hills CreameryBrian Smith puts some brawn behind his brainchild.​Yesterday, we spoke with Ample Hills Creamery's Brian Smith about ice cream, his past career writing "monster-of-the-week movies" for the Sci Fi channel, and his plans to open his own ice cream shop, preferably in Park Slop ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Steely Dan, Grace Jones, Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice, Andrew Bujalski's Beeswax, and More

Jared GruenwaldNot available at H&M: Grace Jones​ In this week's Village Voice, Mike Powell joins fathers and sons and dudes screaming 'GIVE IT TO LARRY' at Steely Dan's Beacon run. Cristina Black on how a Connecticut liberal arts school somehow gave birth to the surrealist Brooklyn pop of M ... More >>

Paul Giamatti's Wit is the Heart of Cold Souls

Who's Your Favorite Plus-Sized Male Movie Star?

Tim MowrerIn Hollywood, the men are allowed to pork it up, but if a dame does so, she's sent out back to scrub the toilet and freshen the laundry. It's a crazy double standard that would instantly end if I were in charge of da movies. I say let 'em ALL eat cake! In the meantime, put down your own b ... More >>

ND/NF: Sophie Barthes Has a Chickpea For Your Soul

Spring Guide: Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience Tries to Turn a Porn Star Legit

Tony Gilroy's (Heretofore Unseen) Expert Light Touch in Duplicity

Fred Claus

Hillary and Condi and Dykes, Oh My!

Plus items of purely prosthetic appeal.

Shoot 'Em Up

Bugaboo Confidential

Life as a young, hot, white, educated nanny in the city sure is a drag

Bye-Bye, Birdie

Weird. wounded, and winged, Hawk works—until it doesn't

Practical Magic

Eerie melodrama explores the dark arts in turn-of-the-century Vienna

'Calvaire (The Ordeal)'

The Metamorphosis

Boy turns bug in redemptive kiddie-lit adaptation

The Dead Pool

Master of the nonsensical outdoes himself in cock-and-bull bedtime story

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Man Shows

The modern American sportsman, as skate punk, ringside messiah, and prison bitch

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Getting It Together: The Best in Film Share Their Secrets

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Days of Wine and Neuroses: Bachelor Buddies Hit the Road

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Autumn Sonata

Young guns Jaoui and Jia mingle with old masters Bergman, Rohmer, and Godard at NYFF

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Philip K. Paycheck

His brain erased, Affleck is just made to be a Dick hero; Woo adds pulp to the sci-fracas

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The Secret Lives of File Clerks

Self-Promoting, Anti-Careerist Comix Hero Harvey Pekar Gets the Biopic He Deserves

Caught In The Act

So You Wanna Be a Wanksta

Unnatural Selection

Evaluating a Movie Lover's Chances of Survival at a Topsy-Turvy Sundance

Devolution of the Species

Arf and Arf