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This Is It Review: The King of Pop Goes out with a Wimper

Less documentary than closely and manipulatively edited homage to the new-agey “genius” of frequent Michael Jackson collaborator and... More>>

By Zach Baron

Published: October 29, 2009

Disabled but Fierce

Cody Unser (yep, racecar Al's kid) tries hard not to make another sappy movie about victimhood.

Cody Unser became paralyzed in 1999 when her immune system attacked her spinal cord. She developed an intense headache, and numbness crept up... More>>

By Erica K. Landau

Published: October 29, 2009

Queen to Play

Chess hasn't been this sexy or subversive since The Thomas Crown Affair. A French film directed by Caroline Bottaro, Queen to Play follows a... More>>

By Erica K. Landau

Published: October 29, 2009

Wonderful World

Ah, the Matthew Broderick stoner movie. Ferris Bueller all grown up, divorced, disappointed, a weekend father, looking chubby and unshaven,... More>>

By Brian Miller

Published: October 29, 2009

An Education and Its Star, Carey Mulligan, Get Good Marks

Danish director Lone Scherfig's An Education is a seemingly benign, classily directed year-I-became-a-woman nostalgia trip that conceals a... More>>

By Scott Foundas

Published: October 29, 2009

The Damned United

We call it soccer, but for the Brits, it's football, and it's damned serious business. From 1968 to 1974, Brian Clough (Michael Sheen), a... More>>

By Chuck Wilson

Published: October 29, 2009

Black Dynamite Doesn't Spoof a Genre as Much as It Comes Straight Out of Blaxploitation Hollywood

Black Dynamite opens with three drug-dealing pimps lined up outside a limousine. A shadowy man rolls down the window and informs them there's a... More>>

By Brett Gillin

Published: October 22, 2009

Trucker's Solid Cast Sells a Predictable Story

We're introduced to Trucker's main character, Diane Ford (Michelle Monaghan), in the midst of a drunken one-night stand in a seedy truck-stop... More>>

By Brett Gillin

Published: October 22, 2009

Mount St. Elias Documents an Absolutely Crazy Climb, but It's the Humanity That Makes It Worth Watching

Alaska's Mount Saint Elias is the third-tallest mountain in North America, and it is notoriously unfriendly. It was first climbed in 1897, and it... More>>

By Brandon K. Thorp

Published: October 22, 2009

Here & There Promises a Serbian Vacation but Gets Lost Along the Way

Perpetually grumpy Robert (David Thornton) is a musician who's unable to pick up his saxophone anymore due to depression, and he's being kicked... More>>

By Brett Gillin

Published: October 22, 2009

A Bridge Life Follows Josh Grossberg as He Tries to Rescue Hurricane Katrina Victims

Most documentaries about Hurricane Katrina — and there have been a lot in the past four years — address its many disasters, whether... More>>

By Erica K. Landau

Published: October 22, 2009

Don't Expect Original Bloodsuckers in Cirque du Freak

The vampire trend continues, but the only authentic bloodsuckers in Cirque du Freak are its producers and studio execs. Drawn from the... More>>

By Aaron Hillis

Published: October 22, 2009

Lessons From South Africa Offers a Lesson in the Need for Editing

The rationale behind Lessons From South Africa is something like this: Lots of people in both Miami and South Africa have AIDS, but in South... More>>

By Brandon K. Thorp

Published: October 22, 2009

Official Rejection Offers Insider's Look at Film Fests

Official Rejection may be too insidery to appeal to a mass audience, but it's a documentary custom-made for aspiring independent filmmakers and... More>>

By Brett Gillin

Published: October 22, 2009

Ong Bak2 Slogs its Way Through a Pseudo-sequel

You're not always entirely sure what is happening in Tony Jaa's new movie, but there certainly is a lot of it. In this sequel in name only, the... More>>

By Nicolas Rapold

Published: October 22, 2009

Tantric Tourists Won't Help You Reach Enlightenment

Tantric Tourists follows a group of wealthy, Western, New Age-types in their journey across India and toward enlightenment — or so they... More>>

By Erica K. Landau

Published: October 22, 2009

The Cohen Brothers' A Serious Man Aims Their Contempt at Members of the Tribe

The Yiddish shtick that opens Joel and Ethan Coen's new movie — a Jewish peasant stumbles on an old Hasid who may or may not be an evil... More>>

By Ella Taylor

Published: October 15, 2009

Law Abiding Citizen Peddles Cheap Revenge Thrills

The movie wastes no time: Before the opening credits, a man watches two home invaders slaughter his wife and daughter — and we don't even... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: October 15, 2009

Let the Mild Rumpus Start!

Max and the gang's all here, but Spike Jonze can't quite get the spirit of the Wild Things on screen.

Directed by Spike Jonze from a 400-word children's picture book first published in 1963, Where the Wild Things Are may be the toughest adaptation... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: October 15, 2009

More Than a Game Follows Akron's Fab Four

More Than a Game follows Akron's Fab Four (later Five) kids on the basketball court, from their "Shooting Stars" traveling youth team into high... More>>

By Nick Pinkerton

Published: October 15, 2009

New York, I Love You Offers Corny Big Apple Collisions

Billed as a "collective feature film," New York, I Love You is the second in the "Cities of Love" series, an idea that has so far proved better... More>>

By Michelle Orange

Published: October 15, 2009

Tickling Leo Reveals Wartime Secret Suspended by a Succeeding Generation

A new Holocaust film grammar is forming about what it means to be a succeeding generation, suspended between the impulse to forget and the urgent... More>>

By Ella Taylor

Published: October 15, 2009

Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau Should Have Retreated from Couples Retreat

Couples, retreat. In the latest from Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau (co-starring and co-writing), we learn that one compelling reason to make a... More>>

By Nick Pinkerton

Published: October 08, 2009

Reel Rock Film Tour

There's not much in the way of climbing here in South Florida, unless you're into rock gyms or scaling the sides of condos. But for one night... More>>

By Brian Miller

Published: October 08, 2009

Yoo Hoo Mrs. Goldberg

Did you know that goy god Steve McQueen got an early walk-on on a Jewish television sitcom? That's just one of the tasty tidbits in Aviva... More>>

By Ella Taylor

Published: October 08, 2009