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Review: The Secret of the Grain

Food for thought
The secret of The Grain is patience

By: PETER KEOUGH | February 19, 2009

Oscar predictions: Liberal gilt

Oscar wants to be a Millionaire
It's like a fairy tale for Hollywood liberals.

By: PETER KEOUGH | February 18, 2009

Review: The International

Bank failure
In lieu of action, character development, or plot, The International offers architecture.

By: PETER KEOUGH | February 10, 2009

Review: He's Just Not That Into You

Reduces both men and women to shrill stereotypes
And why isn't he? Could it be because you're needy, nagging, and possibly psychotic?

By: PETER KEOUGH | February 04, 2009

Review: ''The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2009''

Varying degrees of schmaltz and subtlety
As with Best Picture, the themes of death, aging, and difficult love dominate the two Shorts Oscar categories this year.

By: PETER KEOUGH | February 04, 2009

The parent trap

Coraline pushes familiar buttons
Coraline pushes familiar buttons

By: PETER KEOUGH | February 06, 2009

Review: Lark and Termite

Total immersion
"Language Immersion" is the name of a program set up by the US Army in Korea just prior to the North's invasion of the South.

By: PETER KEOUGH | January 29, 2009

Review: Wendy and Lucy

It's a dog's life
It's a dog's life in Wendy and Lucy

By: PETER KEOUGH | January 20, 2009

Review: Timecrimes

Bumbling farce gives way to existential horror
It all started with a simple act of voyeurism. Or did it?

By: PETER KEOUGH | January 20, 2009

Interview: Kelly Reichardt

The director on the economics of Wendy and Lucy
Kelly Reichardt on the economics of Wendy and Lucy

By: PETER KEOUGH | January 20, 2009

Review: Waltz With Bashir

Dancing on the edge
The so-called anti-war-film genre has lately "distinguished" itself with a flurry of Iraq-war flops featuring earnest polemics.

By: PETER KEOUGH | January 13, 2009

2009 Oscar predictions

Martyr complex
This year the Oscars will honor the men who suffer for our sins and the women who don't wear make-up.

By: PETER KEOUGH | February 11, 2009

Interview: Ari Folman on Waltz with Bashir

Song and dance
Not long after I spoke with Ari Folman about Waltz with Bashir , a harrowing and black-comic animated memoir of his experience as an IDF soldier in the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, Israeli bombs fell on Gaza, in seeming anticipation of a ground offensive.

By: PETER KEOUGH | January 09, 2009