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Having just won the Academy Award as the year's best foreign-language film, The Secret in Their Eyes has a decent shot at wearing down resistance to subtitled films. Don't be put off. This spellbinder from Argentina will sneak up and floor you. It's that good. Ricardo Darin is brilliant as ...
A documentary on the art world may strike you as a yawn. No worries. You'll be laughing helplessly at this one. The subject is Banksy, the British graffiti artist who studiously avoids being photographed, the better to launch his illegal bursts of creativity on walls and buildings, soon erased. Shockingly, ...
Here’s proof that Tina Fey and Steve Carell could squeeze laughs out of a phone book. Josh Klausner’s script for Date Night , in which they play Phil and Claire Foster, a New Jersey couple trying to liven up their dull marriage with a glam date in the Big Apple, rivals ...
Unhappy with what Oliver Stone did to Jim Morrison and the Doors in his 1991 biopic? Here’s the doc for you. Director Tom DiCillo avails himself of archival footage as Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore leave their musical mark on the 1960s. Clips from a film Morrison ...
A boy dies in a car crash just after having sex for the first time, leaving his girlfriend scared and alone. Sounds like a recipe for a soapy Lifetime movie. Which The Greatest could well have been without a riveting cast that plays it for real. Carey Mulligan, an Oscar ...
Release the Kraken and any other demon from hell you can conjure from Greek mythology for being mythically dull, dragass and devoid of wit. No way will I make a case for the first Titans in 1981, but at least the fabled Ray Harryhausen created magnificent monsters. This remake, directed ...
I'm all for dumb fun. But the warmed-over Hot Tub Time Machine forgets it takes smarts to do stupid right. Just look at the comic roadkill so far this year: The Bounty Hunter, Valentine's Day, Cop Out, Tooth Fairy, When in Rome, The Spy Next Door and Our Family ...
What happens when a jealous wife hires a hooker to make a play for her husband to see if he'll bite? See Chloe , Atom Egoyan's remake of the 2003 French film Nathalie , and find out. I didn't believe a word of it. But with Liam Neeson as David, the music ...
Set in a small fishing community in the Bronx with a large population of Italian-Americans, City Island is a warmly hilarious movie about family members and their secret hearts. Writer-director Raymond De Felitta ( Two Family House ) tells his story modestly, but his gift for laughs laced with charm and bristling ...
See this darkly comic character study unburdened by preconceptions. Writer-director Noah Baumbach ( The Squid and the Whale ) walks the fragile line between humor and heartbreak. Ben Stiller is exceptional as Roger Greenberg, a failed New York musician housesitting for his brother in the Hollywood Hills and wondering how life sent ...
"Come on, you filthy pussies, let's rock and roll." That trash talk is aimed at Kristen Stewart, 19, and Dakota Fanning, 16, stars of Twilight: New Moon , by Michael Shannon, in fierce, flamboyant form as evil-genius manager Kim Fowley. Kim is cursing the girls as members of the Runaways, ...
This dynamite thriller shivers with suspense. So if you ignore The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (from the global bestseller by the late Stieg Larsson) because it's in Swedish with English subtitles, you probably deserve the remake Hollywood will surely screw up. ( Peter Travers reviews The Girl With the ...
Kid stuff? Maybe. But How to Train Your Dragon , from the book by Cressida Cowell, works enough miracles of 3-D animation to charm your socks off. The story follows conventional lines: Viking teen Hiccup (voiced with sly comic skill by Jay Baruchel) is a wimpy misfit to his chief-dad, Stoick ...
How do you make an Iraq War movie that audiences will actually pay to see? (Don't holler The Hurt Locker , since all its Oscar medals never melted into box-office gold.) Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass deliver their answer in Green Zone , taking a nonfiction book, Imperial Life in the ...
Who can relate to a nerd who dreams of rubbing his pencil dick on the private parts of a blonde hot enough to rate a hard 10? My guess is that audience is pathetically large, which should chart She's Out of My League high as a date-movie must for the ...
Is there life after Twilight ? Kristen Stewart makes a decent case in The Runaways . Now Rob Pattinson, her vamp lover, trades fantasy for reality in Remember Me . ( Peter Travers reviews Remember Me in his weekly video podcast, "At the Movies With Peter Travers." ) As Tyler, a New York college ...