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Noah Baumbach is 40 years old. He just learned how to drive. A native New Yorker, the writer/director started spending time in Los Angeles when... More >>
Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer is one of his masterpieces — relentless in its suspense; funny when you least expect it; above all,... More >>
The 82nd Academy Awards offered a referendum on what Oscar voters value versus what moviegoers are willing to pay for. Kathryn Bigelow's... More >>
"Yep, they sure don't make pictures like that anymore," says Charlton Heston, glaring wistfully at the hippies on-screen in Woodstock. Charlton... More >>
AMERICAN RADICAL: THE TRIALS OF NORMAN FINKELSTEIN Noam Chomsky reveres him. Leon Wieseltier hates him. Alan Dershowitz called him an anti-Semite... More >>
Between the candy-colored, kid-friendly billboards sprinkled across urban areas and the hipster music blogs hyping soundtrack contributions from... More >>
A Trojan horse. That's how French filmmaker Jacques Audiard describes his attitude toward genre: It's a vehicle for bringing in other concerns... More >>
Akira Kurosawa's great autumnal Mount Fuji of a film, Ran (1985) shouldn't require an introduction — it landed with a popular ker-blam here... More >>
ALICE IN WONDERLAND One wonders what Walt Disney would've made of his studio's 21st-century, 19-year-old Alice — a tousle-haired 3-D action... More >>
It doesn't take long for Kevin Smith's Cop Out to establish its movie lineage. The film's opening shot, set to the Beastie Boys' "No Sleep 'Til... More >>
It's not often that Kevin Smith finds himself speechless. In fact, he's made a living off his gift of gab: Between directorial efforts he does... More >>
"I'm going to commit suicide." "My congratulations." Don Levy's 1967 Herostratus is the greatest movie masterpiece you have probably never... More >>
True story: A guy all alone in a motel room answers the bedside phone. There's a woman on the other end. She sounds young and hot, and, before he... More >>
A PROPHET (UN PROPHÈTE) Agreeing at the insistence of a Corsican mob boss to suck and then slash a fellow inmate, newly jailed Malik El... More >>
Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, a florid art shocker that Paramount welcomed into the world with the strained enthusiasm of a mutant baby's... More >>
Driving Mr. Greenberg
Noah Baumbach is 40 years old. He just learned how to drive. A native New Yorker, the writer/director started spending time in Los Angeles when dating Jennifer Jason Leigh, now… More >>
Ghosts of a Filmmaker's Past
Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer is one of his masterpieces — relentless in its suspense; funny when you least expect it; above all, deeply conscious of political power and its… More >>
Stranger Than Fiction: The Hurt Locker's Many Surprises
The 82nd Academy Awards offered a referendum on what Oscar voters value versus what moviegoers are willing to pay for. Kathryn Bigelow's stunning, groundbreaking achievement as the first woman… More >>
AMERICAN RADICAL: THE TRIALS OF NORMAN FINKELSTEIN Noam Chomsky reveres him. Leon Wieseltier hates him. Alan Dershowitz called him an anti-Semite and applied successful pressure to deny him tenure at… More >>
Camp Apocalypse
"Yep, they sure don't make pictures like that anymore," says Charlton Heston, glaring wistfully at the hippies on-screen in Woodstock. Charlton Heston? Woodstock??? Indeed! This delicious moment in Boris Sagal's… More >>
Alice in Chains: Tim Burton in La-La Land
Between the candy-colored, kid-friendly billboards sprinkled across urban areas and the hipster music blogs hyping soundtrack contributions from the Cure's Robert Smith, it's been hard to peg exactly whom Tim… More >>
A Prophet: Like Scarface but French (and Not Brain-Dead)
A Trojan horse. That's how French filmmaker Jacques Audiard describes his attitude toward genre: It's a vehicle for bringing in other concerns and an anchor to keep the audience… More >>
ALICE IN WONDERLAND One wonders what Walt Disney would've made of his studio's 21st-century, 19-year-old Alice — a tousle-haired 3-D action figure who decapitates a dragon and drinks the creature's… More >>
Ran Don't Walk
Akira Kurosawa's great autumnal Mount Fuji of a film, Ran (1985) shouldn't require an introduction — it landed with a popular ker-blam here in the otherwise fallow mid-'80s, and the… More >>
Cop Out: That's Police Entertainment!
It doesn't take long for Kevin Smith's Cop Out to establish its movie lineage. The film's opening shot, set to the Beastie Boys' "No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn," is a slow-motion,… More >>
