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Public Enemies

By Scott Foundas

Thursday, July 02

"They're all about where people come from. Nobody seems to wonder where somebody's going." So says the Depression-era bank-robber-cum-folk-hero... More >>
Whatever Works

By J. Hoberman

Thursday, July 02

Character is destiny — at least for Woody Allen's Whatever Works. Allen's exercise in Woody Allen nostalgia opens with a snatch of Groucho... More >>
My Sister's Keeper

By Nick Pinkerton

Thursday, June 25

Eleven-year-old Anna Fitzgerald's parents didn't just plan for her — they customized her in utero, with the specific end of providing spare... More >>
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

By Robert Wilonsky

Thursday, June 25

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a bewildering, noisy, sloppy, cynical piece of work, a movie that sneers at the audience for 147 minutes... More >>
Rudo y Cursi

By J. Hoberman

Thursday, June 25

Not quite The Further Adventures of Cain & Abel, the second coming of Beavis & Butt-Head, King Kong vs. Godzilla Redux, or Peyton Meets Eli, but... More >>
The Proposal

By Robert Wilonsky

Thursday, June 18

Fifteen minutes after seeing The Proposal, I'd forgotten I'd seen The Proposal. Well, that's not entirely true: By then, it had simply merged in... More >>
Away We Go

By Jonathan Kiefer

Thursday, June 18

In the new romantic road-movie dramedy Away We Go, SNL alum Maya Rudolph and The Office's John Krasinski play an unexpectedly expectant couple... More >>
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

By Jim Ridley

Thursday, June 11

Want to know how a city works? Start by watching 1974's The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, a primer in which subway hijackers test how long it'll take a... More >>
Away We Go

By Scott Foundas

Thursday, June 11

Midway through A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers' solipsistic, terminally-apologetic-for-being-solipsistic... More >>
The Hangover

By Jim Ridley

Thursday, June 04

What Fletch was to plaid-checked water-cooler wits in the '80s, what National Lampoon's Van Wilder was to college-bound douches at the dawn of... More >>
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29

By J. Hoberman

Thursday, June 04

Pundits agree: The 2008 election has finally and forever rung down the curtain on America's longest-running psychodrama, namely the... More >>
film review

By J. Hoberman

Thursday, May 28

CANNES, France — Memorable for its in-your-face sensationalism, the 62nd Cannes Film Festival opened with the 3-D computer animation Up,... More >>
Up

By Robert Wilonsky

Thursday, May 28

First of all, Up is not a movie about a cranky old coot who, with the help of a roly-poly Boy Scout, finds his inner child during a series of... More >>
Drag Me To Hell

By Nick Pinkerton

Thursday, May 28

Sam Raimi wants to go home again. Often a drifting virtuoso in the years before finding his Spider-Man gig, with Drag Me to Hell Raimi defaults... More >>
Goodbye Solo

By Scott Foundas

Thursday, May 28

At 73, the Memphis-born actor, stuntman, former U.S. Marine, and Golden Gloves boxer Red West has the stoic, leathery repose of a barfly on a... More >>
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