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The World’s End Review: A Pub Crawl to End All Pub Crawls

Film Reunites Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, the team behind Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead

Is Ryan Gosling Parodying Masculinity?

Actor reteams with Blue Valentine director for The Place Beyond the Pines

Admission Review: Tina Fey's Great, But the Film Doesn't Have the Marks

Promised Land Review: Gus Van Sant Directs a Screenplay by Matt Damon and John Krasinski

Hyde Park on Hudson Review: Bill Murray Is Excellent as Franklin Roosevelt, But Is That Enough?

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World Review

Young Love, Wes Anderson-style, in Moonrise Kingdom

Bingham Ray, Indie Film Distribution & Marketing Legend, Dies While Attending Sundance

Jaw-dropping news came down around noon Park City time Monday, when Sundance issued a press release confirming that Bingham Ray -- indie film legend, co-founder of seminal '90s indie distribution outlet October Films and current executive director of the San Francisco Film Society -- had died. Ray, ... More >>

Angelina Jolie and Other Auteurs

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

10 Movies We're Excited About in 2012

Sacha Baron Cohen is The Dictator​We know -- you're excited about The Dark Knight Rises. And The Avengers. And Hunger Games. So are we. We're also excited about a lot of other movies whose marketing campaigns have not inundated us with white noise (yet). Allow us to suggest a few more films to ... More >>

Jane Eyre Review

Cary Fukunaga does goth romance right

LGBT Fusion

Outfest's satellite fest celebrates people of color

The American: As American as Existential Dread

Anton Corbijn turns the tried-and-true thriller inward

A Serious Man: Seriously Bad for the Jews

Self-hating or just everyone-hating? The Coen Brothers aim their contempt at MOTs

Hollywood's Labor Pains or, Why the Numbers Still Matter

​Although the official start of Fall is still a couple of weeks away, Hollywood's Autumnal Equinox is already upon us, as the books are closed on the 2009 summer movie season and the curtain goes up on the Toronto International Film Festival, the still-humid summer air starting to hum with the fir ... More >>

Thingamabob vs. Machine in 9

WALL-E would never get out alive in director Shane Acker's postapocalyptic hellscape

Taking — and Ruining — Woodstock

Ang Lee's latest cranks up the amp on faux '60s nostalgia

Thirst: Park Chan-Wook's Take on Vampires

New Skin For the Old Ceremony

Away We Go: An Unaffecting Work of Staggering Vacuity

Dave Eggers and Sam Mendes’ de-evolutionary road movie

The Limits of Control: The Man, the Myth

Wandering Spain with Jim Jarmusch's lone wolf

Coraline's Stop-Motion Splendor

Through the looking glass:

Sundance, R.I.P.?

"Will everyone be wearing black?" a friend asked over dinner the other night when the subject arose of my imminent departure for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. "I'm so glad I'm not going to Sundance," confided one longtime film publicist at this week's Los Angeles Film Critics awards dinner, as if ... More >>

Foundas on Film: Sundance, R.I.P.?

"Will everyone be wearing black?" a friend asked over dinner the other night when the subject arose of my imminent departure for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. "I'm so glad I'm not going to Sundance," confided one longtime film publicist at this week's Los Angeles Film Critics awards dinner, as if ... More >>

Deadline Hollywood: Shameful Oscar Overspending

Mo' money, more Hugh, less Jerry

Milk: Proposition Hate

Biopic recaptures Californian intolerance at exactly the right time

Burn After Reading: Intolerable Cruelty

Remarkably consistent, the Coens make another mockery

Thank God It's the End of Summer!

(Annual rant)

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day: Incredible Shrinking Women

As "English" as tea and toast, this mainstreamed movie has its eye on a global market

In Bruges: More Adventures in Gangsterland

Martin McDonagh's sightseeing hit-men flick isn't much of a trip

Ian McEwan’s Atonement, Recast as Bodice-Ripper

Who's sorry now?

Road to Hell

Terry George’s latest comes with plenty of reservations

Wind From the East

An accessible narrative belies something much darker in Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises

Blah-Blah Sisterhood

Chick-flick genre to Evening: Why you gotta make us look bad?

Spare the Writer

Out of Afrikaans

Phillip Noyce harvests the seeds of revolution in Catch a Fire

Man and Superman

An American hero shows his dark side in Hollywoodland

O.C. Confidential

Rian Johnson’s suburban noir

Death Race 2000

Horror filmmaker Eric Red crashed his Jeep, killing two. Then he slit his own throat. That was only the beginning

Lonesome Doves

Riding the range with Ang Lee’s lovelorn cowboys

Elizabethtown

In the new Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen’s most celebrated heroine continues to bedevil suitors and filmmakers alike

TB and Sympathy

The Constant Gardener journeys into sub-Saharan Africa’s heart of darkness

The Thrill Is Gone

Jim Jarmusch and Wong Kar-wai look for love in all the wrong places

Heavenly Creatures, Infernal Attachments

Pawel Pawlikowski’s My Summer of Love

Becky, We Hardly Knew Ye

Mira Nair’s colorful travesty of Vanity Fair

About a Boy

Growing up with Charlie Kaufman

Buzz Kill

At Sundance, indie film thrives — in spite of the “hot” industry tips

Taking Measure

REDCAT redefines independent, 21 Grams weighs (down) the soul

Assimilation Strategies

In America So Beautiful and Deliver Us From Eva

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

Todd Haynes' postmodern tearjerker

Isn't It Romantic?

LaBute's Possession may be; Chabrol's Merci Pour Le Chocolat's anything but