Peter Sarsgaard

Venice Update: Kelly Reichardt's Night Moves, James Franco's Child of God, and More

Lovelace, Starring Amanda Seyfried as the Famed Porn Star, Is a One-Person Rashomon

5 Lessons From Nick Hornby's Talk Last Night on Writing and Pop Culture

Nick Hornby rose to fame for expertly explaining the man-boy world to legions. His memoir Fever Pitch chronicles his devotion to the Arsenal football (soccer) league. His novels High Fidelity, About a Boy and, more recently, Juliet, Naked talk of grown men still struggling with relationships. But ... More >>

Green Lantern Review: The Power of Ryan Reynolds' Abs

​ It's 10 minutes before a human character appears on-screen in Green Lantern, a personality-free franchise-launcher that builds toward a quaint, if explosive, argument in favor of the nebulous quality of "humanity." Via a heavily CGI'd prologue, we learn that The Universe is patrolled by a ... More >>

Lynn Barber: Don't Ask, Do Tell

A legendary interviewer opens up about the new film based on her old May-December romance

An Education: Higher Learning

Good marks for 1960s period piece and its star, Carey Mulligan

Movie Reviews: Anvil! The Story of Anvil, Dragonball: Evolution, Hannah Montana: The Movie

Also, The Escapist, Forbidden Lies and more

Mist Opportunity

Not many films in the 60 years since Robert Flaherty's immortal Louisiana Story have evoked the atmosphere of the Bayou State as strongly as Bertrand Tavernier's In the Electric Mist, a movie that doesn't seem to have been filmed so much as distilled, on a creaking porch beset by mosquitos and summe ... More >>

Berlin Film Festival: Mist Opportunity

Not many films in the 60 years since Robert Flaherty's immortal Louisiana Story have evoked the atmosphere of the Bayou State as strongly as Bertrand Tavernier's In the Electric Mist, a movie that doesn't seem to have been filmed so much as distilled, on a creaking porch beset by mosquitos and summ ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Bottle Shock, Man on Wire, The Order of Myths

Also, Elegy, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 and more

Sundance: A Midwinter Night's Dream

Finding gems in the snow at 2008's festival

Ordinary Rendition

It’s not torture, but this latest Mideast thriller’s as conventional as they come

Year of the Dog: Petaphilia

Molly Shannon shows some puppy love in Mike White’s Year of the Dog

Pop 'n' Stuff

Horsefeathers

Pundits can’t stop calling Brokeback Mountain a “breakthrough.” The question is: Why?

Horsefeathers!

Pundits can’t stop calling Brokeback Mountain a “breakthrough.” The question is: Why?

The Secret Lives of Independents

Actor-director-producer Campbell Scott takes the road less traveled

Vanishing Acts

Fragmented identities abound at Sundance 2005

Notable Scene Stealers

(In a Good Way)

On the Couch, Off the Meds

Patrice Leconte’s Intimate Strangers, Zach Braff’s Garden State

Bullshit Detected

Stephen Glass, Chuck Lane and the big dustup at TNR

To Live and Skate in L.A.

Tweakers in The Salton Sea and the wild boys of Dogtown

She Shtups To Conquer

Why is Hollywood so full of whores?

The Ways of Some Flesh

Resurrection

Scorsese updates Travis Bickle; Kimberly Peirce revives Brandon Teena