Cate Blanchett falls apart fearlessly in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine
Cate Blanchett in Jasmine In Stardust Memories, Woody Allen’s character, filmmaker Sandy Bates, just gets more depressed whenever well-meaning fans ...
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Fruitvale Station is a touching, timely plea against racial profiling
Michael B. Jordan in Fruitvale Station From soup to nuts, it takes a long time to make a movie happen ...
The seemingly endless summer
Liam James and AnnaSophia Robb in The Way Way Back. There are summer movies, and there are movies about summer. ...
From up on Poppy Hill captures postwar Yokohama in gorgeous detail
For any moviegoer who enjoys the manifold and ever-evolving art of animation, it’s always occasion to celebrate when a new ...
Twenty Feet from Stardom casts long-overdue spotlight on backup singers
Judith Hill in Twenty Feet from Stardom Summertime is traditionally regarded as the proper season for cinematic junk food, not ...
Tonto gone gonzo
Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer in The Lone Ranger. The past few weeks have yielded two high-priced servings from Hollywood ...
Beatrice & Benedick get fresh
Amy Acker eavesdrops as Beatrice in Joss Whedon’s Shakespeare adaptation. For reasons utterly baffling to devotees of the Bard of ...
That alien boy from Dullsville
Henry Cavill in Man of Steel. As soon as I was old enough to read full-length novels, I lost nearly ...
No Place on Earth unearths incredible story of Holocaust survivors’ ordeal in Ukrainian caves
Still from No Place on Earth. The year is nearly half-over already, and this movie reviewer was getting nervous, thinking ...
Frances Ha is an Annie Hall for Millennials – without the boyfriend
Greta Gerwig in Frances Ha. Neither of these should be the primary factor in making your decision of whether or ...
Some quibbles with Tribbles
Star Trek into Darkness Fandoms are a dime a dozen these days; but if you don’t count the late-19th-century mass ...
Robert Downey, Jr. and intelligent screenplay endow Iron Man 3 with heart
Robert Downey, Jr. in Iron Man 3. Regular readers of this column must be growing weary of my rants against ...
Obnoxious young reporter pursues harmless old hippies in The Company You Keep
Robert Redford and Richard Jenkins in The Company You Keep. According to Hollywood lore, Robert Redford nursed a dream for ...
42 is old-fashioned, inspiring Hollywood moviemaking
Harrison Ford as Branch Rickey and Chadwick Boseman as Jackie Robinson in 42. If, like this correspondent, you’re not a ...
Serendipity in Schenectady
Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling in The Place beyond the Pines. Though best-known for his Oscar-nominated role as a Mafia ...
Lore offers a difficult, complex view of the fall of the Third Reich
Saskia Rosendahl in Cate Shortland’s Lore. Recent remarks by the head of the National Rifle Association in response to the ...
Those fab 14 British 7-year-olds return to the screen in 56 Up
Neil Hughes, one of the stars of the landmark documentary 56 Up. If you’ve ever been in a classroom situation ...
When Neanderthal girl meets Cro-Magnon boy
Still from The Croods. It’s Easter break for schoolchildren, and that means that it’s time for Hollywood to serve up ...
How marketing savvy helped topple a dictator
Still from Pablo Larrain’s No. The tenth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq seems like as good an excuse ...
If it only had a heart
Only Finley, the nice flying monkey (Zach Braff), gets any decent laugh lines in Oz the Great and Powerful. Sam ...
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