With her flame-colored ringlets, Merida, the barely adolescent heroine of Pixar's 13th feature, looks like a wee Rebekah Brooks, maybe a pint-size Florence Welch. Despite these resemblances, Merida remains an original: Brave, set in the Scottish Highlands in the 10th century, is the animation studio ... More >>
What makes Eddie run?
After 10 years, seven movies, six Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers, four directors, two dead parents, one grating house elf, and incalculable amounts of CG wizardry, pubescent growing pains, budding romances, and apocalyptic fire and brimstone, we've finally arrived: Bespectacled Harry ... More >>
Also, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector, A Film Unfinished and more
A legendary interviewer opens up about the new film based on her old May-December romance
Good marks for 1960s period piece and its star, Carey Mulligan
... because they have zero integrity and credibility
Movie adaptation, nine hours shorter, gets back to the source
Conform or disappear
Howards End
In the new Will Ferrell comedy, the truth is Stranger Than Fiction
At the movies and on TV, the changing face of American domestic life
In Nanny McPhee, the Oscar-winning actress and screenwriter gets to flex her comic muscles
In the new Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen’s most celebrated heroine continues to bedevil suitors and filmmakers alike
Hogwarts redux again, with a difference
Love Actually, Elf and the simple pleasures of pre-holiday moviegoing
A pretty, soggy night of Molière
Sperm in a cup; plus Nic Cage
Secrets and lies in Merchant-Ivory’s The Golden Bowl
QED offers gags, but not much wit; The Wooden Breeks is both fun and funereal
Robinson Devor gets his 15 minutes
Mike Nichols colors the Clintons soft
