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Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women

A darker-than-usual take on the author
As always with Porter, you can expect intelligence in the writing and insights into the bio subject.

By: GERALD PEARY | September 09, 2008

The Gates

Public art, food for the soul
This documentary from Antonio Ferrera, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, and Matthew Prinzing details the tortuous journey by which “The Gates” came into being.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | September 09, 2008

Enlighten Up!

A human and profound yoga documentary
How to make a yoga documentary that will satisfy devotees but also entice those who balk at getting down with “downward dog”?

By: GERALD PEARY | September 09, 2008

Bangkok Dangerous

Like a Nine Inch Nails video in need of trimming for YouTube
For genre fare Hollywood has long turned to Asia for a creative spark.

By: TOM MEEK | September 09, 2008

Appaloosa

Unexpected and rewarding despite conventional scenarios
A revisionist Western in the vein of Unforgiven , it plumbs the gray areas in black-and-white frontier justice.

By: TOM MEEK | September 09, 2008

The Women

A Botoxed ode to Saks Fifth Avenue
Rewritten, directed, and produced by Diane English in a flat style that betrays both her TV roots and her status as a first-time director.

By: BRETT MICHEL | September 09, 2008

A Girl Cut in Two

High-quality perversity
The title of Claude Chabrol’s 2007 black comic morality tale — La fille coupée en deux — serves as a playful reminder of the role women usually play on the screen.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 04, 2008

I Served the King of England

Ambitious but old-fashioned and sluggish
I Served the King of England , though an arresting story, is the least successful of Czech filmmaker Jiří Menzel's film adaptations.

By: GERALD PEARY | September 03, 2008

The Grocer's Son

Nothing much happens here
Le fils de l’épicier is a dull title, but appropriate for Eric Guirado’s competently made, unexciting movie.

By: GERALD PEARY | September 03, 2008

Disaster Movie

Devoid of laughs or recognizable actors
Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer (the hacks behind Date Movie and Epic Movie ) unleashed their second witless rehash of pop culture references this year.

By: BRETT MICHEL | September 03, 2008

College

A vulgar, witless depiction of college
College , which was “directed” by Deb Hagen, is so full of nastiness and cruelty that it’s hard to believe anyone would find joy in it.

By: MARK BAZER | September 03, 2008

Babylon A.D.

Incoherent and somewhat amusing
Vin Diesel’s bad-ass boomfest will do if you’re in the mood for post-environmental-apocalypse action that doesn’t make you think too hard.

By: BETSY SHERMAN | September 03, 2008

Eric Rohmer says adieu with Astrea and Celadon
Now 88 years old, Eric Rohmer, a leading light of the French New Wave and a former film critic at Cahiers du cinéma, says Romance of Astrea and Celadon is his last film.

By: A. S. HAMRAH | September 02, 2008

Traitor

Never as exciting as an episode of 24
This Islamic-terrorist thriller takes us halfway around the world before landing on our shores to introduce us to the terrorists in our midst.

By: MARK BAZER | August 27, 2008

Stealing America

Something to infuriate everyone
Watching Stealing America , you wonder whether even the election of 2008 isn’t a foregone conclusion.

By: PETER KEOUGH | August 27, 2008

The House Bunny

Cheap gags and the requisite amount of T+A
Once again Anna Faris, the only reason to see the Scary Movie franchise, adds undeserved riches to an awful premise.

By: TOM MEEK | August 27, 2008

Death Race

A B-movie full of crowd-pleasing bullshit
Glistening torso Jensen Ames (the ubiquitous Jason Statham), is framed for the murder of his sweet wife in this loose remake of the 1975 cult favorite Death Race 2000 .

By: JASON O'BRYAN | August 27, 2008

What We Do Is Secret

Exposition trumps atmosphere
That staple of the musical bio-pic — a close-up of dope bubbling on a spoon — punctuates Rodger Grossman’s account of the short life of Darby Crash.

By: BETSY SHERMAN | August 20, 2008

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

A stiffly-animated, money-grabbing afterthought
It is Star Wars , but it's also an ad for an upcoming video game and an animated TV series debuting in October.

By: BRETT MICHEL | August 20, 2008

Sixty Six

A pleasing, if unbalanced, period piece
Paul Weiland ( Made of Honor ) directs this autobiographical coming-of-age comedy set in London in 1966, the year England took on Germany in the World Cup final.

By: PEG ALOI | August 20, 2008

The Rocker

The set-up is adequate, but the jokes fall flat
Rainn Wilson of The Office gets promoted to the big screen with this anemic comedy directed by The Full Monty helmer Peter Cattaneo.

By: BROOKE HOLGERSON | August 20, 2008

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