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"Take Shelter" in a World Without Safety Nets Take Shelter
By Melissa Anderson, October 27, 2011
Standing outside his small-town Ohio home, his wife and child busy preparing breakfast inside, Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) looks up at the... More>>
"Anonymous" Is a Work of Speculative Fiction About Shakespeare's Works Anonymous
By Nick Pinkerton, October 27, 2011
Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, is the close-second candidate to be attributed authorship of the 37 plays of William Shakespeare —... More>>
Margin Call
By Melissa Anderson, October 27, 2011
Sure to be drowned out by the drum circles at the Occupy protests, writer/director J.C. Chandor's lifeless Margin Call depicts roughly 36 hours... More>>
Johnny Depp Inhabits "The Rum Diary," Based on a Novel Hunter S. Thompson Began in the Early '60s The Rum Diary
By J. Hoberman, October 27, 2011
Written and directed by Bruce Robinson, The Rum Diary adapts a novel Hunter S. Thompson began in the early '60s and published, under Johnny... More>>
The Found-Footage Effect: How Far Can the "Paranormal Activity" Franchise Go? The Found-Footage Effect: How Far Can the "Paranormal Activity" Franchise Go?
By Jason Guerrasio, October 20, 2011
In 2009, Oren Peli's low-budget, "found-footage" thriller Paranormal Activity came out of nowhere to gross more than $100 million domestically at... More>>
Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness
By J. Hoberman, October 20, 2011
Joseph Dorman's Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness is a film-essay-cum-biodoc on author Solomon Rabinovich (1859-1916), who, taking as his... More>>
Mozart's Sister
By Ernest Hardy, October 20, 2011
In heavily outlining the tragedies and injustices that befell the musically gifted older sister of Wolfgang "Amadeus," writer/director... More>>
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By Melissa Anderson, October 20, 2011
After 20 years together, 40-ish arts professionals Hanna (Sophie Rois) and Simon (Sebastian Schipper) have succumbed to bed death. Other stresses... More>>
"Footloose" 2011 Has the Moves to Bridge Generations and Capture Two Demographics Footloose
By Karina Longworth, October 13, 2011
In hindsight, the 1984 hit Footloose — starring Kevin Bacon and directed by Herbert Ross — along with its contemporary Flashdance can... More>>
The Way
By Nick Schager, October 13, 2011
The Way might lack the Chicken Soup for the Soul imprimatur, but writer/director Emilio Estevez's travelogue tale of fathers and sons (starring... More>>
A Semblance of Human Emotion Emerges in "Real Steel," Starring Hugh Jackman Real Steel
By Nick Pinkerton, October 06, 2011
Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) is a two-bit trainer traveling the state fair circuit in a not-too-distant future. His line is robot fighting, a... More>>
Machine Gun Preacher
By Melissa Anderson, October 06, 2011
Based on the true story of Sam Childers — an ex-con, druggie, gun nut, and self-described "hillbilly from Pennsylvania" who got right with... More>>
Cancer Memoir Meets Seth Rogen Comedy in the Slightly Uncomfortable "50/50" Cancer Memoir Meets Seth Rogen Comedy in the Slightly Uncomfortable "50/50"
By Dan Kois, September 29, 2011
A single scene captures the tricky tonal balance of Jonathan Levine's cancer comedy 50/50. Adam, the straightedge radio producer played by Joseph... More>>
When Not Sobbing or Sleeping, "The Tree" Helps the Dead Speak The Tree
By Melissa Anderson, September 29, 2011
No one grieves onscreen quite like Charlotte Gainsbourg, here playing Dawn, made a widow within the first ten minutes of The Tree. When not... More>>
The Formulas Work in "Moneyball," Starring Brad Pitt and Philip Seymour Hoffman Moneyball
By Robert Wilonsky, September 22, 2011
At the time of this writing, the Oakland Athletics sit at a distant third in the American League West, 18 games behind the Texas Rangers, managed... More>>
In "Killer Elite," Duty-Bound Warriors Pummel Each Other In Crisp, Brutal Dustups Killer Elite
By Nick Pinkerton, September 22, 2011
Wholly unrelated to the 1975 Sam Peckinpah film of the same name, Killer Elite is distinguished by one no-mercy, eye-gouging, testicle-punching... More>>
"My Afternoons With Marguerite" Is a Syrupy Tale of Intergenerational Friendship My Afternoons With Marguerite
By Melissa Anderson, September 22, 2011
Celebrity airplane wizzer Gérard Depardieu, playing massive dimwit Germain in this syrupy tale of intergenerational friendship, looks... More>>
"Dolphin Tale," a Corny Family Heartwarmer, Still Manages Depth and Sensitivity Dolphin Tale
By Aaron Hillis, September 22, 2011
Of this year's corny family heartwarmers based on true aquatic stories of coping with the loss of appendages, director Charles Martin Smith's... More>>
Ryan Gosling at the Wheel in the Glossy, Retro Heist-Gone-Bad Bloodbath "Drive" Drive
By J. Hoberman, September 15, 2011
As stripped down and propulsive as its robotic title, Drive is the most "American" movie yet by Danish genre director Nicolas Winding Refn. The... More>>
Gun Hill Road
By Nick Schager, September 15, 2011
Life is a series of constant adjustments to ever-shifting realities in Gun Hill Road, a Brooklyn-set indie about a criminal, Enrique (Esai... More>>
In "I Don't Know How She Does It," Sarah Jessica Parker Does It All I Don't Know How She Does It
By Melissa Anderson, September 15, 2011
What I don't know: why these movies keep getting made. I Don't Know How She Does It is based on Allison Pearson's 2002 diaristic, comic... More>>
Life Above All
By Melissa Anderson, September 15, 2011
"AIDS" isn't uttered until well past the halfway mark of Oliver Schmitz's problematic South Africa-based tale about the fear, gossip, and... More>>
Vera Farmiga Tries to Create a Better Role in "Higher Ground" Higher Ground
By Melissa Anderson, September 08, 2011
As reported in a New York Times Magazine cover story on the actress in 2006 (three years before her Oscar-nominated performance in Up in the... More>>
Warrior
By Nick Pinkerton, September 08, 2011
You know those Affliction shirts, covered in skulls, gothic lettering, and tribal patterns, all cacophonous symbols of badass machismo? That's... More>>
With "Contagion," Steven Soderbergh Turns the Star-Studded Hollywood Disaster Flick on Its Head Contagion
By Karina Longworth, September 08, 2011
Currently the fifth-to-last film on Steven Soderbergh's ever-expanding preretirement slate, Contagion opens on day two of a global viral... More>>
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