What is life but a string of silly exercises?
In The White Ribbon, all feeling is stifled, and this repression breeds repression.
Read the eleventh and final installment in a series of countdown essays written for Salon.
The Blind Side is a ghastly but revealing movie, not least for one scene with Adriane Lenox.
With “The End of Time,” the Doctor Who careers of two giants of the show—star David Tennant and head writer and executive producer Russell T Davies—reach their conclusion.
The flicks below are the best things I got out to see in multiplexes and arthouses in 2009.
Like Nine, and like Robert Altman’s Ready to Wear, this dud coasts entirely on the reputations of its participants.
The phenomenon of the holiday makes it necessary for practically everyone to get into the spirit of things.
Canons form based on availability.
David Tennant’s long goodbye to Doctor Who enters its final stretch with “The Waters of Mars.”
James Cameron outdoes himself by creating a numinous and oneiric universe.
James Cameron’s Avatar is through and through his baby.
And now, let’s see who I can piss off this time.
Where does Lady Gaga fit into the typical conception of a pop musician?
One has to be adventurous and willing to ride the wave of satire, allusion, loquacity, and the stitched-togetherness of it all.
For the most part, I found myself almost mechanically checking off the major scenes as they happened.
“It’s the pictures that got small.” Those words make up the second half of one of the most famous quotes in movie history.
I’m not sure how Mulholland Drive would look to me now that this decade is ending.
Russian Film Week, like the Eastern-European films it shows, runs at a devil-may-care pace.
Time Out New York has just published its picks and blurbs for the top 50 films of the decade.