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Salinger, the New Documentary, Would Make Holden Caulfield Very Angry

Wong Kar-wai’s The Grandmaster Has Been Cut Down for the U.S. — But Is Still Grand

Fruitvale Station Makes a Man Out of a Martyr

How USC Grads Freddie Wong and Ryan Coogler Became the Future of Filmmaking, Via Two Very Different Paths

Fruitvale Station was a hit at Sundance, while Video Game High School has millions of teen fans

A Documentary About Music's Greatest Backup Singers, Bred in the Churches of South L.A.

Morgan Neville initially interviewed about 50 backup singers for his new documentary on the subject, Twenty Feet From Stardom, but the one who first convinced him he was onto something was Darlene Love. Love did backup work for the Beach Boys, Elvis and Sonny and Cher, among others, and also sang ... More >>

Kon-Tiki, the Oscar Nominee About an Epic Rafting Trip, Now Has an English Language Version

Sundance 2013: America's Black Indie Film Renaissance

You could hear a pin drop during the first Sundance screening of writer-director Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale, an enormously powerful and moving debut feature based on the shooting death of 22-year-old Oscar Grant by Oakland transit police in the early hours of New Year's Day, 2009. Coogler opens the fi ... More >>

Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained Is Both Seriously Thoughtful and Seriously Entertaining

Lay the Favorite Review: Rebecca Hall Almost Saves Stephen Frears' Sports-Betting Film

Killing Them Softly Review: Violent Brad Pitt Drama Argues Crime Is Just Business

Silver Linings Playbook Review: Where Is the David O. Russell in This David O. Russell Movie?

The Master Review: Paul Thomas Anderson Reteams With Philip Seymour Hoffman

Lawless Review: Shia LaBeouf Goes Bootlegging

Bully Review

The Iron Lady Review

Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher

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 >>

Human Zoo Review

Supermodel Sex and Violence in Quentin Tarantino Presentation at New Bev

Our Idiot Brother Review

Cannes 2011: We the Jury

The Artist​ CANNES, FRANCE -- The fun is winding down and the sad thing is, there could have been even more. Cannes's programmers had carefully contrived a Palme d'Or celebrity death match between two wildly polarizing contenders with Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life in the white trunks an ... More >>

Scream 4 Review

Miral: Muddle East Politics

Style but little substance in Schnabel's Palestine plea

The Company Men: Men Without Balls

Ben Affleck, emasculated by the economic crisis

AFI Fest A to Z: Hey Man, Yeah

Our critics' picks for what to see and skip at this year's festival

Nine: So You Think You Can Direct

Rob Marshall tries to connect the dance numbers

Let the Golden Globes (and etc.) bad-mouthing begin!

Because it's awards season and there's no holiday cheer

Middle of The Road

Long-delayed Cormac McCarthy adaptation takes the path of least resistance

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 >>

Quentin and Harv, Marty and Leo, Tom and Jerry

Filmdom's Controversial Duos

Funny People, Funny Business

What's no laughing matter in movies and media this week

Crossing Over: Wayne Kramer's Borderline Offensive

Citizen's arrest for tasteless immigrant drama

The Reader's Long and (Oscar-) Worthy Road to Redemption

Reading Is fundamental

Soul Men: Blues Brothers

R&B comedy pays fitting tribute to the late Bernie Mac

The Saga Behind Harvey Weinstein, Scott Rudin and The Reader

A $1 million offer I couldn't refuse

Thank God It's the End of Summer!

(Annual rant)

Boy A: What Happens When a Child Murderer Grows Up?

Brutally soulful Brit import explores both sides of violence and redemption

Ellen Page Defects, Fox's Archive Withers and the Moguls Hit Ketchum, Idaho

Inglorious Bastards and ungrateful bitches

Movie Reviews: Kabluey, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Meet Dave

Also, Homo Erectus, Garden Party and more

Spurlock's Search: Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?

The Super Size Me guy goes gunning for Public Enemy No. 1

Bienvenue Chez les Ch'tis

France's biggest French-language hit comes to the U.S.

Project Jump Ship: Moguls Fight Fiercely Over Runway

... agents Endeavor to change

Diary of the Dead: George Romero's Back

Reality bites

The Nanny Diaries: Child-care Crisis

Who’ll suffer the children?

Spare the Writer

High Rollers, Humbled Harvey and The Hills

Why is nothing in show biz as it seems?

Miss Congeniality

Beatrix Potter gets an extreme makeover in Miss Potter

It's a Wonderful Life?

Hollywood stuffs its stockings with Mel-odramas, shame, backstabbing and bloodbaths

Sighs and Whispers

Stolen goods and stolen hearts in Breaking and Entering

Dear Kevin

New Film Reviews

For week of February 24 - March 2

Presto Chango

Magic, motherhood and gender morphology in Breakfast on Pluto and Transamerica