John Malkovich

Screen Tests II

Know When to Fold 'Em

On Deck

Something to look forward to in 2008: Clint Eastwood's The Changeling

The World Is a Stage

Art imitates life imitating art in Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York

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Art imitates life imitating art in Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York

Go Ahead, Make Her Day

Angelina Jolie takes on a serial killer and the system in Clint Eastwood's latest

Move Along, Kids

Angelina Jolie takes on a serial killer and the system in Clint Eastwood's latest

Just Like Marionettes

What a piece of work is puppet

Tomorrow's Misery Today

Children of Men, Color Me Kubrick, The Shield: Season 5, Candy

Anchor, Man?

Playing against type, Will Ferrell can't quite ground this artificially whimsical romantic comedy.

Bond in a Bikini

Playing against type, Will Ferrell can't quite ground this artificially whimsical romantic comedy.

Inside the Lines

Clowes and Zwigoff upend the college comedy, then wreck it.

Free for All

The Libertine's protagonist is a boor you can't ignore

Leaning Sideways

In a year when small movies came up big, picking the best was a Payne

Terror Firmer

In The Dancer Upstairs, Bardem is the quiet amid the violence

Mind Games

George Clooney impressively toys with the twisted delusions of a game show producer

Adapt This

If being Charlie Kaufman is no fun, watching him is a real drag

Type Caste

Maggie Gyllenhaal is a naughty Secretary -- but not quite naughty enough

Heart to Heart

Eastwood plays a detective with a bad ticker looking for the man who murdered his donor

Hairy Plotters

Ignoble savages go ape in Human Nature

Are You In or Out?

Or, one man's passion for George Clooney and corn

Reel War

The Army and Hollywood join hands to wage virtual, bloodless battles

The Bitch of Kitsch

Terry Zwigoff and Daniel Clowes trap us with a raptor in Ghost World

Drag King

Actor-comic Eddie Izzard just wants to be loved

Vein Glory

Exploitation cinema becomes art in E. Elias Merhige's Shadow of the Vampire

The Jung Ones

The Center For Jungian Studies of South Florida presents a lecture by Marita Digney

The Bit Player

Vincent D'Onofrio may be the best actor of his generation, but who would notice?

1999's Top Ten

New Times' critics actually have some faves

Ruined in Rouen

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

Pull the Strings!

Being John Malkovich

Soul Man

Paul Giamatti brings the wit, but the film lacks something deeper.

Summer Movie Preview

Paul Giamatti brings the wit, but the film lacks something deeper.

"Jonah Hex" a Chef Boyardee Spaghetti Western

Paul Giamatti brings the wit, but the film lacks something deeper.

"Secretariat" Proves Again That Horses Make Terrible Title Characters

Paul Giamatti brings the wit, but the film lacks something deeper.

In "Red," Helen Mirren Will Cut You, and Other Awesome Old-People Things

Paul Giamatti brings the wit, but the film lacks something deeper.