Hero and his new hottie The two hours and 34 minutes of Transformers: Dark of the Moon are loaded with unimaginable violence, but only one spasm left the audience at the theater where I watched it speechless. They cheered the robot-on-robot slugfests, rendered in terabyte-straining slow moti ... More >>
Helen Mirren will cut you, and other awesome old-people things
Actress/producer Tilda Swinton on her postmodern romantic epic, I Am Love
Coetzee adaptation faces the facts of post-Apartheid South Africa
Actor brings the funny, but his new film lacks something deeper
Also, Explicit Ills, Virtual JFK and more
Interview with a Daniel Day-Lewis look-alike
Also, Frost/Nixon, The Black Balloon and more
By Liz Ohanesian Philip Seymour Hoffman (L) and Charlie Kaufman (R) on the set of Synecdoche, New York. There will be a moment in Synecdoche, New York, the directorial debut from screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) when you realiz ... More >>
Remarkably consistent, the Coens make another mockery
The actor directs and stars in this new opera, presented by Musica Angelica
Finding gems in the snow at 2008's festival
Ellen Page puts a shine on teen pregnancy
The many freckled faces of Catherine Keener
The Parent Trap, That Darn Cat and other classics shake off their weak remakes
Also this week's pick, Offside
Backstage, Charlotte's Web, Eragon and more
While Akiva Goldsman fiddles, more accomplished movie scribes burn
Breakfast with Terry Zwigoff and Daniel Clowes
An enigmatic independent auteur may have made the world’s next great midnight movie
The Best of Youth and A Talking Picture
Growing up with Charlie Kaufman
John Malkovich’s perfect part
Low Camp, grand Hotel
The metafictional mayhem in — and behind — Spike Jonze's Adaptation
Four killer producers on the cutting edge of independent film
Lovely and Amazing is just that; the Emperor has no clothes
Nicholas Shakespeare on S.P.B. Mais
Raul Ruiz’s magnificent Proustian dream
Vengeance is hers in The Terrorist
A few of our favorite reads this year
The best of '99
The last movies of the century
The big documentary, plus Kane redux
Character and destiny in Being John Malkovich and Dreaming of Joseph Lees
Off-Hollywood's quiet man
John Dahl's sleeping beauty
