Greta Gerwig

You're Next, a Slasher Flick for the Occupy Era

Frances Ha: Not Yet a Person, But a Damn Good Film

With Greta Gerwig as his collaborator, Noah Baumbach shows a new lightness of touch

10 Movies We're Excited to See in 2013

See also: *Top 10 Films of 2012 *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Most of the blathering this year about the death of the movies has already evaporated from the mind, like so much inert gas. But one gnomic pronouncement endures: Leos Carax describing cinema as "a beautiful island with a cemetery" fol ... More >>

When Directors Love Their Stars: Frances Ha and Yellow at the Toronto Film Festival

For maybe the first hour of Yellow (written and directed by Nick Cassavetes, the man responsible for the national treasure that is The Notebook), I kept thinking about another film premiering here in Toronto, Frances Ha, co-written by and starring Greta Gerwig, and co-written and directed by Noah Ba ... More >>

Telluride Film Festival: Noah Baumbach, Sarah Polley Bring New Films

To Rome With Love Review

Woody Allen on His New Film To Rome With Love and Some Very Old Themes

Aubrey Plaza and Greta Gerwig, Meta-Ingenues: Safety Not Guaranteed and Lola Versus

Damsels in Distress Review

Whit Stillman returns with a toe-tapping college-girl fantasy

Whit Stillman Interview

Damsels in Distress, and a director in distress

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 >>

Toronto International Film Festival: A Fest Without a Frontrunner

Handicapping the Oscars out of Toronto won't work this year

Toronto Film Festival: Bad Romance From Whit Stillman, Alexander Payne and More

Greta Gerwig in Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress​ Tragic romance is a big TIFF theme this year. Soured love tied to death and/or suicide and/or beautifully-lit misery has popped up in eight of the nine films I've seen since I last blogged. At the festival midway point, I've seen so many mov ... More >>

Toronto Film Festival Preview: 10 Must-See Films

Brad Pitt in Moneyball​ The Toronto Film Festival kicks off tomorrow, offering the usual mix of Oscar bait, new films from foreign and experimental masters, and basically every conceivable thing in between. With the caveat that the lineup, hundreds of films strong, could not possibly be tackle ... More >>

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No Strings Attached Review

High-concept director Ivan Reitman goes low-key for believable romantic comedy

The Social Network Named Best Movie of 2010

The film critics' poll

The Top 10 Films of 2010

Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Sofia Coppola and sex with garbage

Strange Death Fellows

How do you go from In the Company of Men, to remaking The Wicker Man, to directing a Martin Lawrence/Chris Rock comedy? Neil LaBute explains himself

SXSW: Gone to the Masses

Yet fest still has fresh, experimental edge

Greenberg: Los Angeles Plays Itself

Noah Baumbach goes West with his latest self-obsessed, unlikable protagonist

Driving Mr. Greenberg

Noah Baumbach on the DIY ethos, L.A. without a car and his new film starring Ben Stiller and Greta Gerwig

Daddy Long Legs: The Pleasures of Being Kidnapped

The Safdie Brothers stir up New York and family history in their second feature

Movie Reviews: This Is It, Boondock Saints II, Gentlemen Broncos, The House of the Devil

Also, The Fall, Skin and more

Screamfest 2009: Scream and Scream Again

Zombie GIs, human centipedes take starring roles at annual horror fest

Step Brothers: Blended Family Values

Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly Get Relational

LAFF 2008: Bagging on the Fest

The absolute best way to see BAGHEAD is at a film festival after you’ve seen a few other movies, because the opening scenes perfectly skewer the universal truths of indie fests, from the pretentious film being viewed (a black-and-white number entitled WE ARE NAKED) to the Q&A host plugging the spo ... More >>

Film Reviews: Angels in the Dust, Hannah Takes the Stairs, Trade

Also The Game Plan, Feast of Love, The Rape of Europa and more

Austin City Limits

Global kumquats, Gen-Y navel gazing and Michael Moore bashing at SXSW 2007