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Review: Where the Wild Things Are

Jonze, Eggers, and Sendak aren’t kidding around
I can’t speak for the kids, but I would rate Spike Jonze & Dave Eggers’s adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s 40-page children’s picture book up there with Up and Wall•E as topping the recent renaissance in children’s movies. If pressed, I’d rank it close to The Wizard of Oz .

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 19, 2009

Review: St. Trinians

Earns a passing a grade
Some out-of-work A-list British actors end up at Hogwarts. Others must settle for St. Trinian’s.

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 15, 2009

Review: New York, I Love You

A collection of acting and screenwriting exercises
The multi-episode portmanteau movie is usually less than the sum of its parts.

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 14, 2009

Review: A Serious Man

The Coens find no country for A Serious Man
The Coen Brothers have put the sad back in sadism.

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 10, 2009

Review: Paranormal Activity

More than cheap thrills
The "normal" puts the chills in Paranormal Activity .

By: Peter Keough | October 15, 2009

Review: Beaches of Agnès

Floatsam and jetsam
Agnes Varda settles into her 80s as cinema's version of Montaigne.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 30, 2009

Review: Whip It

Drew Barrymore's directorial debut falls flat
Add a dash of the sad beauty contests and kooky, dysfunctional family of Little Miss Sunshine to a helping of the bogus hipness and overexposed star of Juno and whip it good and you get an idea of why Drew Barrymore's directorial debut falls flat as a sappy soufflé.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 30, 2009

Review: Surrogates

Philip K. Dick-ian premise deserves better
Some day in the future — or is it right now? — people will be replaced by surrogate robots, superhuman automatons who live out big-screen fantasies while their hosts, with their greasy hair and bad skin, sit back in wired-up La-Z-Boys.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 30, 2009

Review: Zombieland

Young actors need to make a living too.
Does it mean anything that Jesse Eisenberg's follow-up to Adventureland is Zombieland and that it also includes a theme park?

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 05, 2009

Review: Capitalism: A Love Story

Moore of the same: Capitalism fails to make a prophet
In his new film about the Wall Street meltdown, Michael Moore — surprise! — denounces capitalism and its exploitation of the working class. Not that he's above doing a little exploiting himself.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 29, 2009

Crimson green

Banned director Jafar Panahi on Iran's vicious circle
"In the summer before the revolution [against the shah], if you asked someone if there might be a revolution, an optimistic person would say, maybe in a century."

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 29, 2009

Review: Pandorum

When did space travel become so unpleasant?
I miss the days when you could cross the galaxy in comfort on the bridge of the Enterprise .

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 30, 2009

True romance

Jane Campion directs the best movie ever made about John Keats.
Bright Star is the best movie ever made about John Keats, the great Romantic poet who died at the age of 25. According to the Internet Movie Database, however, it is also the only one.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 23, 2009

Review: Disgrace

Jacobs's adaptation of Coetzee's novel plenty disturbing
Australian filmmaker Steve Jacobs's adaptation of South African writer J.M. Coetzee's 1999 novel doesn't add much clarity to the debate on race in America, but it's plenty disturbing.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 23, 2009

Review: Paris

What's the French word for Crash ?
Cédric Klapisch's serendipitous interweaving of the lives of disparate characters in the title city never resorts to the contrivance and manipulation of Paul Haggis's Oscar winner, but there are some close calls.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 23, 2009

Review: The Informant!

Soderbergh's state of cornfusion
The Informant! opens with a segment that sounds as if it had been culled from Food, Inc.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 16, 2009

Review: Big Fan

Run-of-the-mill, cheap laughs
"He's another Martin Scorsese!" crows mom when her son screens an awful ad for his ambulance-chasing law firm in this unimpressive debut from Robert Siegel.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 16, 2009

October lite

The outlook is still gloomy, but film finds time for childish things
We expected the vampires, the werewolves, the zombies, and the homicidal maniacs. Same thing with the android doubles, the alien abductors, the sexually abused pregnant teenager, the Apocalypse, and the post-Apocalypse. But kids' movies?

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 17, 2009

The plots thicken

9/11 Truthers, Tea Parties, Birthers — conspiracy is in the air. No wonder Hollywood is embracing paranoia.
Eight years after the destruction of the World Trade Center — the result of one of the most devastatingly successful conspiracies in history — Americans still take comfort in paranoia.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 11, 2009

Review: The Baader Meinhof Complex

Terrorism made simple in Uli Edel's Complex
Terrorism made simple in Uli Edel's Complex

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 10, 2009

Review: Flame and Citron

Scandanavian Nazi-assassin film gets a bit bogged down
The two Danish Resistance fighters of the title ( Flammen og Citronen in the Danish original) don't have nearly as much fun killing Nazis as do Quentin Tarantino's Basterds.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 02, 2009

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