Reviews

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  The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

  By Ella Taylor

  Wednesday, May 14

  "Things never happen the same way twice." Thus boometh Aslan the lion (Liam Neeson), alias the Son of God, popping his computer-generated shaggy... More >>
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  Fast Track to Nowhere: It's anime on overdrive in the Wachowski brothers' souped-up, tricked-out Speed Racer

  By J. Hoberman

  Wednesday, May 07

  Converting a fondly remembered cartoon series — one of the first Japanese animes syndicated on American TV — into a prospective... More >>
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  Made of Honor

  By Robert Wilonsky

  Wednesday, April 30

  In Made of Honor, Patrick Dempsey plays a conveniently rich and willfully single serial "fornicator" slowly but surely domesticated by his... More >>
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  Nobody's Baby: Neither Tina Fey nor Amy Poehler seem the least bit invested in Baby Mama

  By Robert Wilonsky

  Wednesday, April 23

  Could have sworn I've seen this episode of Baby Mama before — like sometime in January 2007, when it was originally titled "The Baby Show"... More >>
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  Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?

  By J. Hoberman

  Wednesday, April 16

  Morgan Spurlock, the daredevil documentarian who lived on Big Macs for a month and turned this exercise in "body art" into the 2004 hit Super... More >>
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  Forgetting Sarah Marshall

  By Robert Wilonsky

  Wednesday, April 16

  Jason Segel is responsible for two of the most cringe-inducing, hands-in-front-of-your-face moments in the recent history of television, both of... More >>
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  Ordinary People

  Intelligence goes soft in this more obvious than smart rom-com.

  By Robert Wilonsky

  Wednesday, April 09

  Smart people got no reason to live — and, sure, that's not quite how Randy Newman sang it, but the point still stands. Because in Noam... More >>
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  Leatherheads, George Clooney's ode to screwball comedies of yore is sooooo close. But yet.

  By Scott Foundas

  Wednesday, April 02

  When Time recently featured George Clooney on its cover accompanied by the headline "The Last Movie Star" — note not even a question mark... More >>
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  Married Life

  By Ella Taylor

  Wednesday, March 26

  Do we need another look back at the rotten heart of the '50s nuclear family? Ira Sachs thinks we do, and as one who can't get enough of sweaty... More >>
• Stop-Loss

  By Scott Foundas

  Wednesday, March 26

  Considering that the war in Iraq has proved to be Washington's shot-by-shot remake of Vietnam, it's only natural that Hollywood has followed... More >>
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  Gus van Sant returns to disaffected youth and shoestring budgets in Paranoid Park

  By J. Hoberman

  Wednesday, March 19

  The pleasing circularity of Gus Van Sant's masterful Paranoid Park is not only a function of the film's narrative structure, but also reflects... More >>
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  Funny Games

  By Jim Ridley

  Wednesday, March 12

  For the crime of obliterating high culture, for the crime of getting off on vicarious degradation — and, above all, for the crime of... More >>
• Horton Hears a Who!

  By Ed Gonzalez

  Wednesday, March 12

  Was Dr. Seuss, né Theodor Seuss Geisel, oblivious to his own genius? The allegory of his charming Horton Hears a Who! remains fluid today,... More >>
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  The Bank Job

  By Robert Wilonsky

  Wednesday, March 05

  "Based on a true story," brags The Bank Job before diving into the clear blue water of the Caribbean, where, in 1970, a topless woman frolics... More >>
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  True/False Film Festival

  Chad Garrison, Kristie McClanahan, Annie Zaleski, Ian Froeb and Aimee Levitt

  Wednesday, February 27

  Last year's True/False Film Fest in Columbia attracted nearly 15,000 people to the quaint college town. Not bad at all for a five-year-old... More >>
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