Orphan is a nasty, unpleasant movie, filled with predictable plot turns, one-dimensional characters, and some really lousy dialogue — but it’s also a lot…
As the newly crowned king of adult comedies (not necessarily of the raunchy, R-rated variety, although that also applies), Judd Apatow has forged a…
Modest Sundance hit The Answer Man is one of those films that seems to erase itself from your memory days after seeing it. It’s a…
Francis Ford Coppola’s Youth Without Youth didn’t do his career many favors. At least not from audiences and critics that were confounded by the…
Not unlike last year’s Academy Award-winning doc Man on Wire (which also played at the Provincetown Film Festival), Louie Psihoyos’ The Cove utilizes familiar…
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth film in the Potter franchise, begins with the same ominous sense of darkness that pervaded the…
The moody and intense Public Enemies is a curious picture, and it’s going to be a great divider, creating two polarized camps of love and…
Should you shell out 10 clams to see Blood: The Last Vampire? Well, that depends on what you’re looking for. Solid acting, remotely believable…
German actress Nina Hoss has a central role in Christian Petzold’s second feature, Jerichow, one of the best films of 2009’s first half, and…
Agnès Varda takes center stage in her self-proclaimed “last film,” and as a “little old lady, pleasantly plump and talkative, telling her life story.”…
In 2006, popular British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen (of Da Ali G Show) and Masked and Anonymous director Larry Charles (who also scripted some…
Three American soldiers pace cautiously around a cluster of bombs in an Iraqi village as children from balconies and storekeepers from street-level doorways follow…
Where has one seen this movie before? Oh right, Everywhere. Chéri is like one of those tired period pieces that Hollywood seems to toss…
Drag Me to Hell has everything you could want from a movie of its title. This includes, but is not limited to, a vomiting…
To those closely following current cinema trends, it’s relatively common knowledge that when a film is tagged with the word “indie,” this label refers…
Let’s get one thing straight: Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen isn’t a film. It isn’t even entertainment. It’s a two-and-a-half-hour commercial for…
With his late-career peak, 1992’s Husbands and Wives, Woody Allen explored the rocky slope of marriage in all its complex infidelities and regrets. Since…
Welcome to 24 City. Three generations of Chinese men and women want to tell you their story. Hold your judgments; hear them out. The…