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Green Zone

It's better late than never for a bang-bang pulse-pounder predicated on the Bush administration's deliberate fabrication of WMDs in Iraq. Paul... More>>

By J. HOBERMAN

Published: March 11, 2010

Creation

Already a blogosphere punching bag for right-wing Christians, Creation — about Charles Darwin's writing of On the Origin of Species —... More>>

By Ernest Hardy

Published: March 11, 2010

My Name Is Khan

If autism can reboot Claire Danes' career, can it guarantee crossover success for Bollywood's biggest star? Shah Rukh Khan plays... More>>

By Melissa Anderson

Published: March 11, 2010

Our Family Wedding

An unconvincingly broad culture-clash comedy whose Latino and African-American ensemble might've made for a progressive film if director and... More>>

By Aaron Hillis

Published: March 11, 2010

Remember Me

Reputedly a new romance starring Robert Pattinson, Remember Me begins like a vigilante movie: In a racially charged stickup, an 11-year-old girl... More>>

By Nick Pinkerton

Published: March 11, 2010

She's Out of My League

This isn't entirely without its selling points, chief among them T.J. Miller, who's a cross between Seth Rogen and Jason Segel — paging... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: March 11, 2010

The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights

Marriage, sexual ambiguity and the muted foxiness of the band's drummer have been the subtext of every White Stripes album. So it's no surprise... More>>

By Zach Baron

Published: March 11, 2010

Alice in Wonderland

Walt Disney mulled an adaptation of Alice in Wonderland for decades before producing an animated feature in 1951. By all accounts, though, he... More>>

By J. HOBERMAN

Published: March 04, 2010

Brooklyn's Finest

Filled with every cop-movie convention since the invention of gunpowder and curse words, Brooklyn's Finest is three movies in one, all of which... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: March 04, 2010

The Ghost Writer

It's hard not to picture Roman Polanski under house arrest in Gstaad, editing his diverting new thriller, in which a former British prime... More>>

By Nicolas Rapold

Published: March 04, 2010

The White Ribbon

The White Ribbon is Michael Haneke's first German-language film since the original Funny Games (1997), and addressing what used to be called "the... More>>

By J. HOBERMAN

Published: February 25, 2010

Antichrist

Lars von Trier's doggedly outrageous, fearsomely ambitious two-hander is so desperate to make you feel something — if only a terrible... More>>

By J. HOBERMAN

Published: February 25, 2010

Cop Out

Jimmy (Bruce Willis), a swinging-dick career cop threatened by his ex-wife's new husband (Jason Lee), tries to sell a treasured baseball card so... More>>

By Karina Longworth

Published: February 25, 2010

The Last Station

Opening with balalaikas, agrarians in collarless shirts, and intertitles announcing that Tolstoy was "the most celebrated writer in the world,"... More>>

By ELLA TAYLOR

Published: February 25, 2010

Shutter Island

Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island begins with U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) seasick, head in the toilet. The film is his... More>>

By Nick Pinkerton

Published: February 18, 2010

2010 Academy Award-Nominated Shorts

Though crafted outside the Hollywood system, the best of these 10 entries are, in some ways, the most familiar — their most radical element... More>>

By Tim Grierson

Published: February 18, 2010

Valentine's Day

Garry Marshall's embarrassingly star-studded stiff Valentine's Day is a kind of greatest rom-com hits compilation, painted over with layers of... More>>

By Karina Longworth

Published: February 11, 2010

That Evening Sun

First-time writer-director Scott Teems has given 84-year-old master actor Hal Holbrook a dream role in Abner Meecham, a Tennessean who walks out... More>>

By CHUCK WILSON

Published: February 11, 2010

From Paris With Love

As personal assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to France, James Reese (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) can keep himself in well-tailored suits and keep his... More>>

By Nick Pinkerton

Published: February 04, 2010

Edge of Darkness

In the trailer for Edge of Darkness, the question is posed in flat-voweled Bostonian: "Did you shoot my daughtah?" And Mel Gibson, much-bereaved... More>>

By Nick Pinkerton

Published: January 28, 2010

Crazy Heart

Yesterday's honky-tonk hero, Bad Blake, arrives at a Clovis, New Mexico, bowling alley. It's another in a string of low-paying, low-turnout gigs... More>>

By Nick Pinkerton

Published: January 21, 2010

A Single Man

Too much is never enough for fashion designer turned filmmaker Tom Ford, whose debut feature flaunts its capital-A Artiness the way some... More>>

By SCOTT FOUNDAS

Published: January 14, 2010

Broken Embraces

Harry Caine, the blind, middle-aged filmmaker in Broken Embraces, admits: "Everything has already happened to me. All that's left is to enjoy... More>>

By ROB NELSON

Published: January 14, 2010

The Book of Eli

Allen and Albert Hughes' fourth film, The Book of Eli, centers on the Christianity that was at the margins of... More>>

By Nick Pinkerton

Published: January 14, 2010

The Lovely Bones

Cults collide as Peter "Lord of the Rings" Jackson tackles Alice Sebold's best-selling New Age gothic, the story of a rape and murder and its... More>>

By J. HOBERMAN

Published: January 14, 2010