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Lies We Can Believe In Lies We Can Believe In
A new kind of war movie for a new kind of war, Body of Lies is about the war on terror being waged on the ground, in the air but, most of all, in... More>>
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: October 09, 2008

The Express
The story of Syracuse running back Ernie Davis — the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy, in 1961, two years before he... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: October 09, 2008

The Duchess
Based on Amanda Foreman's biography of Georgiana Spencer, the Duchess of Devonshire, Saul Dibb's costume drama tells how Princess Diana's... More>>
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: October 09, 2008

I Served the King of England
Septuagenarian Czech filmmaker Jirí Menzel's latest boasts the same darkly sarcastic and lyrically absurdist trademarks that fellow Czech... More>>
By Aaron Hillis
Published: October 09, 2008
Blindness Blindness
The most recent example of bleak chic, Fernando Meirelles' mostly harrowing adaptation of José Saramago's international best-seller... More>>
By Anthony Kaufman
Published: October 02, 2008
Religulous
Bill Maher's one-man attack on religious fundamentalism has more bark than bite — a skeptical, secular-humanist hounding of the hypocrites,... More>>
By J. HOBERMAN
Published: October 02, 2008
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Peter Sollett's 2002 film, Raising Victor Vargas, remains among the most pointed, poignant and joyful films about teen love. Sollett can only... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: October 02, 2008
Flash of Genius
The big-screen version of inventor Robert Kearns' legal battles with Ford and Chrysler — both of which nicked his intermittent windshield... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: October 02, 2008
Rachel Getting Married
Those who believe that Jonathan Demme went all soft with Philadelphia and never recovered may not be reassured by his latest movie, an ensemble... More>>
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: October 02, 2008
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Based on Toby Young's tome about his spectacular fuck-ups and flameout at Vanity Fair, Robert Weide's big-screen version is sitcom-drab. Simon... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: October 02, 2008
Appaloosa
Virgil Cole (Ed Harris) and sidekick Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortensen) are the new marshal and deputy facing down a posse of bad guys in Appaloosa,... More>>
By CHUCK WILSON
Published: October 02, 2008
Baghead
Basically, this is a movie in which two half-assed couples — barely lit old flames Matt (Ross Partridge) and Catherine (Elise Muller) and... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: October 02, 2008
Choke Choke
There's a whole lotta fucking going on in Choke, Clark Gregg's adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's first-person novel about a sex addict named Victor... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: September 25, 2008
Nights in Rodanthe
Nights in Rodanthe works so strenuously to satisfy its target audience's every desire that it's a minor surprise that the filmmakers didn't... More>>
By Tim Grierson
Published: September 25, 2008
Ghost Town
It takes a good while for Ricky Gervais to warm up in Ghost Town; it takes even longer for the audience to warm to Ricky Gervais as a dentist... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: September 18, 2008
Frozen River
Melissa Leo is terrifically truculent as Ray, a single mother of two boys who reluctantly teams up with an equally hard-up Native American, Lila... More>>
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: September 18, 2008
My Winnipeg
Guy Maddin's frozen reverie on Canada's "Gateway to the West" is barely defrosted by the warmth of the projector bulb. The filmmaker conjures up... More>>
By J Hoberman
Published: September 18, 2008
A Week in the Reel City A Week in the Reel City
It figures. The indie-film world has backed its truck up to the Glenwood Arts Theatre and is dumping product by the shitload, including daring... More>>
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: September 18, 2008
Alaska Far Away: The New Deal Pioneers of the Matanuska Colony
Election news has sharpened the relevance of this sturdy doc about a one-fell-swoop settlement of Depression-era Alaska. Turns out, the state's... More>>
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: September 18, 2008
Woodpecker
Venture unprepared into writer-director Alex Karpovsky's Woodpecker, and you might leave the movie feeling unsure about what you've seen.... More>>
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: September 18, 2008
Burn After Reading Burn After Reading
Masters of the carefully crafted cheap shot, Joel and Ethan Coen have built a career on flippancy. Given their refusal to take anything seriously... More>>
By J. HOBERMAN
Published: September 11, 2008
The Women
Trailing negative buzz and a revolving door of A-list talent since its inception in 1994, Diane English's pudding-soft remake of George Cukor's... More>>
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: September 11, 2008
Traitor Traitor
Despite his reputation as that rarest of creatures, the Hollywood intellectual, new evidence suggests that Steve Martin reads — prepare... More>>
By CHUCK WILSON
Published: August 28, 2008
Elegy
It's May-December time again, and for an aging dude who scores one of the ripest young lovelies in cinema (Penelope Cruz), Ben Kingsley looks... More>>
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: August 28, 2008
Man on Wire Man on Wire
Part caper movie, part real-life superhero saga and entirely engrossing, James Marsh's documentary recounts in Rififi-like detail how a Parisian... More>>
By Jim Ridley
Published: August 21, 2008
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