In Capote, a murder leads to a masterpiece leads to an undoing
By Robert Wilonsky,
October 13, 2005
This fall, the roll call of gigantic ghosts inhabiting cinematic biographic continues unabated, with Joaquin Phoenix as a shrunken Johnny Cash in... More>>
Wallace and Gromit make their long-overdue feature debut
By Melissa Levine,
October 06, 2005
Ah, Wallace and Gromit. Who doesn't get a little lift at the sound of those names? Who doesn't feel the edges of her mouth begin to tickle toward... More>>
When David Cronenberg picks up a pistol, Violence begets comedy
By Robert Wilonsky,
October 06, 2005
Any thing can be anything to anybody, particularly in the case of David Cronenberg's A History of Violence. If you want to believe that his new... More>>
Mike Mills's debut is smart, funny, and gorgeously sad
By Melissa Levine,
September 29, 2005
About once a year -- twice if we're lucky -- a first-time director gives us something original, electrifying, and humane, a film that shows us a... More>>
Polanski's Oliver Twist misses the grit of Dickens's classic
By Jean Oppenheimer,
September 29, 2005
It's almost impossible to watch Roman Polanski's rendition of Oliver Twist without drawing parallels between the privations endured by the book's... More>>
Tim Burton is dead-on again in the darkly delightful Corpse Bride
By Bill Gallo,
September 22, 2005
By conservative estimate, Tim Burton stands to rake in half a billion dollars at the box office this year, thanks to a childlike chocolate-maker... More>>
Paltrow anchors the screen version of the prize-winning play
By Melissa Levine,
September 22, 2005
In the tradition of A Beautiful Mind and Good Will Hunting comes Proof, a psychological drama about a math genius and the people who worship,... More>>
Lord of War unloads one of the year's best cinema moments
By Robert Wilonsky,
September 15, 2005
Andrew Niccol's first two films as writer-director, 1997's Gattaca and 2002's S1m0ne, were hollow, sterile sci-fi masquerading as earnest satire:... More>>
When one goes to see a movie called El Crimen Perfecto, it might seem unlikely that the title of this Spanish film has been altered for American... More>>
The Exorcism of Emily Rose, which is based on a true story the same way Harry Potter and Star Wars movies are, is the latest -- though certainly... More>>
A reckless cop goes undercover as the Underclassman
By Luke Y. Thompson,
September 01, 2005
Remember Nick Cannon? For a while there he seemed to be the next big young heartthrob, right after starring in the marching-band movie Drumline... More>>