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Leashed Lightning Disney's latest toon is a starry dog story.
With his blazing white coat and pig-pink ears, to say nothing of the zigzag of lightning cut into his flank, the eponymous canine lead of... More>>
Published: November 19, 2008
Holiday Feast, Extra Stuffing Desplechin's A Christmas Tale is the gift this season needs.
Arnaud Desplechin is a cinema maximalist: A Christmas Tale feels like all 12 days of seasonal merriment and then some. This comic, ultimately... More>>
Published: November 19, 2008
Were the World Mine
Tom Gustafson's queer-centric take on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream teeters between banal conceptualizing and inspired execution. When... More>>
Published: November 19, 2008
Arthouse movie listings for November 19-25
Artists' Television Access. Poison: Todd Haynes film. Presentation of the Revival House Queer Cinema. Wed., Nov. 19, 8 p.m. $6. Open Screening:... More>>
Published: November 19, 2008
Neither Shaken Nor Stirred Marc Forster has a license to confuse and bore in Quantum of Solace.
Those of us who adored Casino Royale, the 2006 reboot of the haggard, self-parodic James Bond franchise, had some trouble trying to decide where... More>>
Published: November 12, 2008
Game-Show Masala Bollywood meets Hollywood in Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Well, who wouldn't in this economy, even if the currency in question is rupees and winning the loot means being... More>>
Published: November 12, 2008
JCVD
JCVD wastes little time working itself into a pretzel. The action begins under the credits with Jean-Claude Van Damme working his way through a... More>>
Published: November 12, 2008
Arthouse movie listings for November 12-18
Artists' Television Access. La Osa Mayor Menos Dos: Documentary by David Reznak about a Spanish mental hospital. Thu., Nov. 13, 8 p.m. free.... More>>
Published: November 12, 2008
The World Is a Stage Art imitates life imitating art in Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York.
If you traveled the length of John Malkovich's medulla oblongata, hung a sharp left at the desk where Beckett's Krapp recorded his last tape, and... More>>
Published: November 05, 2008
Gene Slicing A Saw director gets musical.
Movie cults are born, not made. A youthful audience discovered Donnie Darko on its own, even as another demographic transformed The Sound of... More>>
Published: November 05, 2008
Big Daddies Role Models is smarter and bawdier than your average boys-to-men movie.
Paul Rudd wears the constant look of glazed-eye amusement; everything seems to tickle him, even that which annoys or frustrates or disappoints... More>>
Published: November 05, 2008
Blues Brothers Soul Men pays fitting tribute to the late Bernie Mac.
If the dream of every comic is to have his humor live on long after he's left the stage, then the late Bernie Mac has exited this world on a high... More>>
Published: November 05, 2008
Loins of Punjab Presents
The zany incomprehensibility of the title should serve as fair warning of the quirkfest to come in neophyte filmmaker Manish Acharya's Loins of... More>>
Published: November 05, 2008
Arthouse movie listings for November 5-11
Castro Theatre. The Nanny and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?: Part of the Bette Davis Centennial. Wed., Nov. 5, 2:30 p.m. The Leopard: Luchino... More>>
Published: November 05, 2008
Strictly Softcore Kevin Smith blows his wad with Zack and Miri Make a Porno.
Ostensibly, Zack and Miri Make a Porno should be money-shot Kevin Smith: Pals make porn to pay the bills and, in the process of gettin' it on for... More>>
Published: October 29, 2008
Monster Mom Kristin Scott Thomas shines as a child killer in middlebrow French melodrama.
Kristin Scott Thomas has gotten so locked into playing tragic victims or frigid grandes dames that few remember the actress got her big break as... More>>
Published: October 29, 2008
Fear(s) of the Dark
While some may snicker at "graphic novel" as a term for comic books that take themselves too seriously, the French analogue — bande... More>>
Published: October 29, 2008
Tru Loved
Writer-director Stewart Wade's Tru Loved is a kitschier incarnation of an after-school special: hokey and simplistic, but also gawkily... More>>
Published: October 29, 2008
We Rent the Night New York cop drama holds the audience hostage.
Pride and Glory doesn't make any effort to disguise precisely what it is: a barely-held-together string of vignettes lifted from every cop movie... More>>
Published: October 22, 2008
The Son Also Rises
Oliver Stone on W. and the president who would be John Wayne.
Sitting in the back of the restaurant at New York's überchic Royalton Hotel in an orange polo shirt and khakis, Oliver Stone looks out of... More>>
Published: October 22, 2008
Go Ahead, Make Her Day Angelina Jolie takes on a serial killer and the system in Clint Eastwood's latest.
On a double bill with L.A. Confidential, Chinatown, or just about any film made after 1970 about institutional corruption in Los Angeles, Clint... More>>
Published: October 22, 2008
Parent Trap Azazel Jacobs successfully (and emotionally) mines his childhood in Momma's Man.
Thirtyish guy — bit of a shlub, but married, with a newborn baby — comes back from California to visit his aging parents in New York... More>>
Published: October 22, 2008
Filth and Wisdom
A splashy Berlin Film Festival premiere may not have been the ideal launch strategy for this modestly scaled first feature co-written and... More>>
Published: October 22, 2008
Arthouse movie listings for October 22-28
Artists' Television Access. "16mm Psychodrama & Mythological Dreamscapes of Sound": Live music and animations, all influenced by ritual and myth.... More>>
Published: October 22, 2008
Bush's Brain Oliver Stone assigns motive to Dubya's M.O., but at this point, who cares?
W. may be less frenzied than the usual Oliver Stone sensory bombardment, but in revisiting the early '00s by way of the late '60s, this... More>>
Published: October 15, 2008
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