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Synecdoche, New York Synecdoche, New York
If you traveled the length of John Malkovich's medulla oblongata, hung a sharp left at the desk where Samuel Beckett's Krapp recorded his last... More>>
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: November 20, 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>>
By Aaron Hillis
Published: November 20, 2008

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
During World War II, a Nazi officer (David Thewlis) receives a promotion and moves his wife (Vera Farmiga), teenage daughter, Gretel (Amber... More>>
By CHUCK WILSON
Published: November 20, 2008
Quantum of Solace 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>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: November 13, 2008

Sixty Six
Aside from the occasional Yiddish-spewing gangster, Anglo-Jewish life has evolved largely off the radar of British national cinema. That's... More>>
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: November 13, 2008

Fling
Titled Lie to Me when it was shot here last year, the first feature by KC native John Stewart Muller (co-written with Laura Boersma) starts as a... More>>
By Scott Wilson
Published: November 13, 2008

Ashes of Time Redux
Cynics make the worst romantics. They should know better, and they know they should know better. Forced underground by heartbreak, a cynic's... More>>
By Michelle Orange
Published: November 13, 2008
Sex Drive
Between his unsympathetic family and his demeaning doughnut-shop job, the likable but luckless Ian (Josh Zuckerman) is a prototypical teen-movie... More>>
By Sam Sweet
Published: November 06, 2008
Soul Men
In Soul Men, actor-comedian Bernie Mac, who passed away in August, plays Floyd Henderson, a present-day car-wash mogul who, back in the 1970s,... More>>
By CHUCK WILSON
Published: November 06, 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: November 06, 2008
Role Models

Role Models
In every way, this is just a formulaic romp about two selfish slackers getting their priorities rearranged by a couple of kids. Instead of... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: November 06, 2008
Changeling Changeling
On a double bill with L.A. Confidential or Chinatown or almost any post-1970 film made about institutional corruption in Los Angeles, Clint... More>>
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: October 30, 2008

Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Pals make a porn to pay the bills and, in the process of gettin' it on for the video cam, realize that their years-in-the-making friendship is... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: October 30, 2008

What Just Happened?
Barry Levinson's tedious excuse for a Hollywood caper asks us to pity the poor movie producer — in this case, Art Linson, adapting his own... More>>
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: October 30, 2008

RocknRolla
After a box-office-catastrophic two-movie run, Guy Ritchie takes another mulligan and returns to "form." A new pack of capering yobs, including a... More>>
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: October 30, 2008
Pride and Glory Pride and Glory
Pride and Glory makes no effort to disguise what it is: a barely held-together string of vignettes lifted from every cop movie ever made, except... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: October 23, 2008

Boogie Man
Those interviewed for Stefan Forbes' fascinating documentary about Lee Atwater end anecdotes about the Republican strategist's dirty tricks with... More>>
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: October 23, 2008
W. W.
The typical Oliver Stone sensory bombardment may be less frenzied in W., but in revisiting the early '00s by way of the late '60s, this... More>>
By J. HOBERMAN
Published: October 16, 2008

Trouble the Water
By following Scott and Kimberly Roberts, a couple from New Orleans' stricken Ninth Ward, through Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, directors... More>>
By Jim Ridley
Published: October 16, 2008
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
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