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Halloween: Horror DVDs turn your pad into a haunted house

Apart from the stray slasher flick, Halloween is traditionally a dead spot on the Hollywood calendar. This week's big release? The Michael... More>>

By Brian Miller

Published: October 29, 2009

An Education and its star, Carey Mulligan, get good marks

The title is a double entendre in An Education, the film version of British journalist Lynn Barber's memoir about the crash course she received... More>>

By Scott Foundas

Published: October 29, 2009

The Coen Brothers' A Serious Man: Bad for the Jews

The Yiddish shtetl shtick that opens Joel and Ethan Coen's new movie — a Jewish peasant stumbles on an old Hasid who may or may not be a... More>>

By Ella Taylor

Published: October 29, 2009

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant sucks

Like the ominous fingernail moon early on in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, the bloodsucker trend is again in a waxing phase thanks to... More>>

By Aaron Hillis

Published: October 22, 2009

New York, I Love You has hits and misses

Billed as a "collective feature film," New York, I Love You is the second in the "Cities of Love" series, an idea that has so far proved better... More>>

By Michelle Orange

Published: October 22, 2009

Where the Wild Things Are: Let the mild rumpus begin!

Directed by Spike Jonze from a 400-word children's picture book first published in 1963, Where the Wild Things Are might be the toughest... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: October 15, 2009

Couples Retreat

Couples, retreat. In the latest from Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau (co-starring and co-writing), we learn that one compelling reason to make a... More>>

By Nick Pinkerton

Published: October 15, 2009

Capitalism: A Love Story sells the same old Michael Moore shtick

The ushers at a packed screening of Michael Moore's latest movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, came proudly decked out in T-shirts bearing slogans... More>>

By Ella Taylor

Published: October 08, 2009

Zombieland

Now playing.

The zombie movie — that evergreen vessel for all manner of social and political allegory — gets stripped down to its "Holy shit!... More>>

By Scott Foundas

Published: October 08, 2009

Ricky Gervais can get only so far with The Invention of Lying

The Invention of Lying's plot hook sounds like a pileup of Jim Carrey-Tom Shadyac concept comedies. The assumption is that there isn't much... More>>

By Nick Pinkerton

Published: October 01, 2009

Surrogates

Now playing.

A montage of news footage crisply introduces the not-too-distant future, where the world's white-collar professionals live vicariously through... More>>

By Nick Pinkerton

Published: October 01, 2009

Bright Star is an ode to John Keats's great love affair

Set in the bucolic suburbs of early-19th-century London, as fresh and dewy as a newly mowed lawn, Jane Campion's Bright Star recounts the love... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: September 24, 2009

Jennifer's Body: A premeditated cult classic

A premeditated cult classic — they're kind of like "pre-worn" designer jeans — Jennifer's Body seems designed more to be quoted than... More>>

By Nick Pinkerton

Published: September 24, 2009

The Informant!: No Exclamation Point Necessary

The film gets cute with massive corporate scandal and blows the story.

As evidenced by The Informant!, it's a hell of a tricky thing turning real-life pulp into floss sugar. The story of Archer Daniels Midland... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: September 17, 2009

I Can Do Bad All by Myself

Now playing.

If you are the director, producer, writer (adapting your own stage play), and costar of a film, you really show how bad you can do all by... More>>

By Melissa Anderson

Published: September 17, 2009

It's Thingamabob vs. Machine in 9

Shane Acker creates an animated post-apocalyptic hellscape. WALL-E would never get out alive.

Early in Shane Acker's computer-animated debut feature 9, a diminutive anthropomorphic whatsit with wooden hands, copper fingers, and the titular... More>>

By Scott Foundas

Published: September 10, 2009

All About Steve

Now playing.

In this refreshingly quirky comedy, Sandra Bullock is Mary Horowitz, a Sacramento crossword-puzzle writer who is geeky and hyperactive and... More>>

By Chuck Wilson

Published: September 10, 2009

With Extract, Mike Judge Goes Back to Work

Mike Judge began writing the screenplay for Extract not long after Office Space opened and closed in a matter of weeks in the late winter of... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: September 03, 2009

Halloween II

Now playing.

Serial killer Michael Myers, it turns out, has mother issues. In this disappointing sequel to his intense and much underrated 2007 remake of John... More>>

By Chuck Wilson

Published: September 03, 2009

Taking Woodstock Ruins It

Who knew three days of peace and music would oppress us for 40 years?

"If you remember Woodstock, you probably weren't there," the expression goes. And if you were, could you please stop gassing on about it?... More>>

By Melissa Anderson

Published: August 27, 2009

Shorts

Now playing.

Austin's rebel without a crew, Robert Rodriguez works in exactly two filmmaking modes: fast, cheap genre violence (the El Mariachi trilogy, Sin... More>>

By Aaron Hillis

Published: August 27, 2009

Mr. Blood Red, Vol. 2

Two decades after the severed ear of Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino serves up Hitler's head on a plate.

Seventeen years ago, when Reservoir Dogs was setting American cinema on fire, Quentin Tarantino drove up to his favorite watering hole, a... More>>

By Ella Taylor

Published: August 20, 2009

Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds

In a triumph of his will, the director makes Holocaust revisionism ridiculously fun.

Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is consummate Hollywood entertainment — rich in fantasy and... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: August 20, 2009

The Time Traveler's Wife

Now playing.

A dapper (mostly) contemporary costume drama, The Time Traveler's Wife is abundantly interior-decorated in vintage rococo. Eric Bana, to his... More>>

By Nick Pinkerton

Published: August 20, 2009