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Review: Beautiful Boy

Is there an audience for this finely acted, sensitively directed film of unhappiness and sorrow?

By: GERALD PEARY | June 17, 2011

Review: Jig

Sue Bourne's documentary about Irish stepdancing in general and the 2010 Irish Dance World Championships in particular treads a formulaic path.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | June 16, 2011

Review: The Art of Getting By

Freddie Highmore plays the acutely self-conscious Manhattan prep schooler whose pivotal senior year is recounted in director-writer Gavin Wiesen's earnest, but weak, debut.

By: BETSY SHERMAN | June 17, 2011

Review: The Trip

In his brilliant "adaptation" of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy , Michael Winterbottom created a self-reflexive parodic movie of the quintessential self-reflexive parodic novel .

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 17, 2011

This summer's movies are all about kicking ass

We can be heroes
On the screen this summer, everyone is a superhero.

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 10, 2011

Review: Beginners

Anna Hall
Beginners adds a dash of New Wave style and a dose of genuine pathos to a decidedly Allenish romp.

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 09, 2011

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Review: Nostalgia for the Light

The Atacama desert in Chile offers natural wonders — as well as horrors
The driest place on earth is the Atacama desert in Chile. Ten thousand feet above sea level, it allows astronomers the clearest skies in the world for observing the universe; they gaze as far back as the Big Bang and the origins of the cosmos.

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 09, 2011

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Review: The First Beautiful Thing

As a child in the Tuscany port town of Livorno, Bruno was understandably anxious and unsettled as he and his sister scooted after their hot mamma (Micaela Ramazzotti) because all three had been bounced from their home by a jealous father.

By: GERALD PEARY | June 09, 2011

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Review: Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer

This is a film that needs Ritalin
The mood never dips below the high end of mania in John Schultz's punishing adaptation of Megan McDonald's children's book series.

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 09, 2011

Review: X-Men: First Class

"Mutant and proud!" indeed
"Mutant and proud!" indeed

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 09, 2011

Review: Super 8

8 and a half
Arriving on a wave of secrecy that the projects of J.J. Abrams have become known for, Super 8 turns out to contain hardly any secrets at all.

By: BRETT MICHEL | June 13, 2011

Review: Louder Than A Bomb

Young poetry slammers tell their stories
The kids whom Jacobs and Siskel have chosen for us to watch are so enthralling, with such remarkable life stories, that their autobiographical poems have actual power.

By: GERALD PEARY | June 02, 2011

Review: City of Life and Death

A visceral portrait of the hopeless
Shot in opulent black and white, the atrocities never cease.

By: TOM MEEK | June 02, 2011

Review: Yellowbrickroad

Subverting the standard horror format
Directors Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton appear to be trying to avoid the stereotypical standard horror-movie schlocker and do something more ambitious.

By: MICHAEL C. WALSH | June 02, 2011

Review: Tree of Life

It's a wonderful Life
The story is primal, but the details are elusive.

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 01, 2011

Review: A Serbian Film

A seductive nihilism
A handful of films are so appalling that a strange mystique surrounds them — a mixture of fascination, curiosity, and repulsion.

By: SIMON PAUL AUGUSTINE | May 26, 2011

Review: Hobo With A Shotgun

Gut-wrenching rhythms
Like Machete , Jason Eisener's danse macabre started as a two-minute faux trailer in Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse .

By: PETER KEOUGH | May 26, 2011

Review: Midnight in Paris

The Modernist playground of '20s Paris
Yet this tartly ironic tour of the Modernist playground of '20s Paris is his funniest movie since Deconstructing Harry (1997), the last time he indulged in such a playful conceit.

By: PETER KEOUGH | May 26, 2011

Review: L'amour Fou

Thoretton's portrait of the late Saint Laurent
Pierre Thoretton's lugubrious portrait of the late Yves Saint Laurent (he died in 2008) begins with a 2002 press conference in which the iconic designer announced his retirement from the world of fashion.

By: PETER KEOUGH | May 26, 2011

Review: Sons of Perdition

Polygamy reigns
If Jonestown's Jimmy Jones ran North Korea, it would be like the cultist, fascist, ignorant, sexually craven society that exists in Columbia City, Colorado, under the thumb of self-proclaimed prophet Warren Jeffs.

By: GERALD PEARY | May 26, 2011

Review: The Hangover Part II

Darker and more desperate
Amnesia might be the key to enjoying Todd Phillips's reprise of his 2009 hit comedy, since it follows by rote the formula set up in the original.

By: PETER KEOUGH | May 26, 2011

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