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Remembrance of Demons Past
The Unborn raids the modern horror memory bank, from The Exorcist to Auschwitz

By Nick Pinkerton

Thursday, January 08

For as long as it forges ahead without explanations, The Unborn works as a series of snap-cut gotchas introducing each new contestant in its... More >>
Forgiven
Clint Eastwood finds salvation in Gran Torino

By Scott Foundas

Thursday, December 25

Walt Kowalski growls a lot — a dyspeptic rumble that wells up from deep inside his belly when he catches sight of his midriff-baring... More >>
Risky Business
Tom Cruise plots to kill Hitler in his latest mission impossible

By Robert Wilonsky

Thursday, December 25

Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg — a lot of name for a lot of guy. Born into German aristocracy in 1907, he was a soldier... More >>
Old Man Pitt
The curious case of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

By Scott Foundas

Thursday, December 25

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is certainly curious — a modest F. Scott Fitzgerald story about a man born in the twilight of life and... More >>
Internal Inquisition
Doubt wags the finger of moral relativism

By Ella Taylor

Thursday, December 18

Back in the early 1980s, a prominent professor I knew was accused of sexually harassing a colleague. This man was a compulsive flirt who couldn't... More >>
It's a Miserable Life
Will Smith encores his Pursuit of Happyness

By Scott Foundas

Thursday, December 18

Two years ago nearly to the day, Will Smith and Italian director Gabriele Muccino released The Pursuit of Happyness, one of the most underrated... More >>
Nixon in a Deep Frost
Langella and Sheen capture a summit of ego as Frost/Nixon goes from stage to screen

By J. Hoberman

Thursday, December 11

I hear America singing, and I see... Richard Nixon. Not the man but the muse: Has any president since Lincoln inspired more movies, TV... More >>
Spinning Blues Into Lies
Cadillac Records can't handle the truth

By Robert Wilonsky

Thursday, December 04

First, a key spoiler: Cadillac Records is not the story of Chess Records, the blues label started in Chicago in 1950 by brothers Leonard and Phil... More >>
Unfortunate Son
Feel-good filmmaker Randall Miller goes bad... very bad

By Tim Grierson

Thursday, December 04

Nobody in the film industry wants to be pigeonholed. Personal assistants long to be studio heads, gaffers want to direct, and name actors... More >>
Somewhere Over the Date Line
Welcome to Baz Luhrmann's not-quite-marvelous land of Oz

By Ella Taylor

Thursday, November 27

You don't have to have been raised on colonial Brit lit, classic melodramas, Westerns, war movies, or Gone With the Wind to figure out the likely... More >>
Proposition Hate
Gus Van Sant's Milk recaptures California intolerance at exactly the right time

By J. Hoberman

Thursday, November 27

Gus Van Sant has never been what you'd call a risk-averse filmmaker, but he directs his Harvey Milk biopic so carefully, there might be a Ming... More >>
Leashed Lightning
Disney's latest toon is a starry dog story

By Ella Taylor

Thursday, November 20

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 >>
Monster Mom
Kristin Scott Thomas shines as a child killer in middlebrow French melodrama

By Ella Taylor

Thursday, November 20

Kristin Scott Thomas has gotten so locked into playing tragic victims or frigid grandes dames that few remember that the actress got her big... More >>
Neither Shaken nor Stirred
Marc Forster has a license to confuse and bore in Quantum of Solace

By Robert Wilonsky

Thursday, November 13

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 >>
The World Is a Stage
Art imitates life imitating art in Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York

By Thomas Francis

Thursday, November 13

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 >>
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