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Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Full of raunch and snappy dialogue
Kevin Smith’s ear for raunch is as piquant as ever, but he’s moved beyond his usual unconvincing leads to Judd Apatow regulars Rogen and Craig Robinson.

By: BRETT MICHEL | October 28, 2008

Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell

A somewhat revelatory documentary
There’s no explaining Arthur Russell. It’s best just to listen to his music. I hope Wolf’s documentary will encourage people to do precisely that.

By: RICHARD BECK | October 25, 2008

Max Payne

Bloodless, PG-13-rated action noir
No longer the undercover DEA agent of the game, Max oversees NYPD “cold case” files. They don’t come much colder than this one.

By: BRETT MICHEL | October 25, 2008

Filth and Wisdom

An annoying mish-mash
As the lead character narrates his “filthy” story, and those of his London flatmates/neighbors, we hit upon boredom long before wisdom can arrive.

By: MARK BAZER | October 27, 2008

Breakfast With Scot

Chaste, and lacking wit
Laurie Lind’s fuses Three Men and a Baby, La Vie en Rose , and every other gay rom-com ever made.

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 21, 2008

Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story

An excellent and frightening documentary
Barack Obama is darn lucky that Lee Atwater, who died in 1991, isn’t around to lead the Republican dirty-tricks department.

By: GERALD PEARY | October 25, 2008

Ashes of Time Redux

Sumptuous, angsty swordplay drama
Ashes ’ sumptuous tapestry depicts intersecting tales in a mediæval China teeming with 20th-century angst.

By: BETSY SHERMAN | October 25, 2008

Frontrunners

A very entertaining documentary
Comparisons with Alexander Payne’s Election won’t fly.

By: GERALD PEARY | October 25, 2008

The Secret Life of Bees

A throwback, coming-of-age film
The real heroine is Dakota Fanning, an actress capable of conveying guilt, nerves, and idealism all at once.

By: JENNY HALPER | October 16, 2008

W. gets a B

Josh Brolin prevails over Oliver Stone’s shaky portrait
Josh Brolin prevails over Oliver Stone’s shaky portrait

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 15, 2008

What Just Happened

Half-baked insider parody
“There isn’t a film there,” Ben tells the screenwriter. Sounds like What Just Happened .

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 28, 2008

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

A slight but sometimes affecting trifle
The relationship between fathers and daughters is complicated enough without being further strained by Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 15, 2008

Sex Drive

The usual preoccupation with nut sacks and virgins
Sex Drive doesn’t venture anywhere new, but it makes the same old scenery amusing again.

By: TOM MEEK | October 15, 2008

Saving Marriage

Dramatic moments of the gay-and-lesbian struggle that escaped our newspapers
Roth and Henning, dedicated partisans, were everywhere with their cameras in those historic years 2003–2006.

By: GERALD PEARY | October 15, 2008

Quarantine

About as scary as a creaky door
Every second horror film these days seems to be shot by some desperate character with a hand-held digital camera who half the time is running for his or her life.

By: TOM MEEK | October 15, 2008

Outdated, passable entertainment
Kids who see the truth when adults cannot is a central idea in children’s stories, but today’s kids would hardly recognize the grown-ups in Ember’s totalitarian society.

By: MARK BAZER | October 15, 2008

Body of Lies

Another forgettable thriller
For a film dealing with Intelligence, Body of Lies has little enough of its own.

By: BRETT MICHEL | October 16, 2008

Morning Light

A curio of a documentary
If it weren’t for the ritzy camera work and the trumped-up soundtrack orchestrated by directors Paul Crowder and Mark Monroe, this tub would be dead in the water.

By: TOM MEEK | October 15, 2008

Candide camera

Mike Leigh lightens up in Happy-Go-Lucky
There might be a dark side to Poppy (Sally Hawkins), the driving force behind Mike Leigh’s new film Happy-Go-Lucky , but damned if I could find it.

By: PETER KEOUGH | January 12, 2009

Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Measures of War

A ruminative experimental mosaic
Is there some poison in the air of the Balkans, as one individual asserts, that breeds eternal ethnic bloodletting?

By: GERALD PEARY | October 16, 2008

Our Disappeared

Fascinating historical clips mixed with personal interviews
Between 1976 and 1983, some 30,000 people were kidnapped and killed by the Argentine military dictatorship.

By: PEG ALOI | October 09, 2008

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