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Review: Side Effects

Placebo effect
Ironically, the filmmaker who started his career with sex, lies, and videotape , a film boosting female sexuality and empowerment, now ends it with a so-so thriller that resorts to the same old misogyny.

By: PETER KEOUGH | February 08, 2013

Review: Hors Satan

God works in strange ways, especially when Bruno Dumont directs him. Or is that the devil?

By: PETER KEOUGH | January 30, 2013

Review: Parker

I didn't think any action hero could sustain as much damage as Arnold Schwarzenegger did in The Last Stand , but Jason Statham as the title thief in this adaptation of the Richard Stark (a/k/a Donald E. Westlake) novel Flashfire might have him beat.

By: PETER KEOUGH | January 30, 2013

Review: The Last Stand

Rather than scapegoat Hollywood for causing gun violence, the NRA should encourage films like this lighthearted bloodbath.

By: PETER KEOUGH | January 22, 2013

Review: Broken City

Jeffrey Wright distinguishes himself in the star-heavy cast as the morally ambiguous police commissioner; for his reward he gets the best line in the film.

By: PETER KEOUGH | January 22, 2013

Review: Amour

Amour is less
The master of bleakness, depravity, and bitter irony Michael Haneke has at last made an unabashedly romantic love story, and his most upbeat movie to date.

By: PETER KEOUGH | February 12, 2013

Review: Indelible Lalita

Over time, the vicissitudes of the human body can wreak havoc with one's sense of identity.

By: PETER KEOUGH | January 08, 2013

Oscar predictions: Django and Zero fade as Lincoln landslide looms

Had you asked a couple of weeks ago, I would have given Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained and Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty good odds at raining on Steven Spielberg's Lincoln parade. But reality has since intruded.

By: PETER KEOUGH | January 02, 2013

Enhanced interrogation: CIA research in Zero Dark Thirty

NEW YORK — After surviving right-wing Senate investigations into possible access to classified CIA material while it was in production, Zero Dark Thirty , now in the theaters, faces charges from left-wing critics of being in favor of torture, not to mention accusations of inaccuracy from Democratic senators Barbara Feinstein and Carl Levin and Republican senator John McCain.

By: PETER KEOUGH | January 07, 2013

Review: Zero Dark Thirty

Dark passage
Densely detailed, superbly shot and acted, illuminating and thrilling, it is the best film of 2012.

By: PETER KEOUGH | January 09, 2013

Review: Jack Reacher

"Who is Jack Reacher?"

By: PETER KEOUGH | December 27, 2012

Review: Promised Land

In the tradition of Arbitrage and Thank You for Smoking , where the people who contribute to making life miserable are seen as just regular guys, Gus Van Sant, along with screenwriters Matt Damon and John Krasinski, collaborate in this ambiguous homily about the energy crisis and environmental pollution.

By: PETER KEOUGH | December 27, 2012