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10 Sep 2008
Can it be coincidence that Akin, perhaps the most acclaimed director to emerge from Europe in this decade, is an artist whose background spans the two cultures that lie closest to the gaping fault line separating the West and Islam?
10 Sep 2008
(Film: Feature/ Review)
27 Aug 2008
Dare a filmmaker venture into such a realm and craft a movie that's both searchingly compassionate and entertaining?
27 Aug 2008
(Film: Feature/ Review)
13 Aug 2008
An electrifying surprise in the waning days of summer, Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder is easily the funniest movie I've seen this year, a riotous high-octane side-splitter that delivers more laughs than a dozen standard studio comedies.
13 Aug 2008
(Film: Feature/ Review)
30 Jul 2008
Viewers enraptured by the TV series will not, I think, be outraged by this new movie version.
30 Jul 2008
(Film: Feature/ Review)
16 Jul 2008
Gonzo doesn't make you feel the sting of Hunter Thompson's demise, and it should. Savage Grace is so ludicrously mistitled that it perhaps violates truth-in-advertising statutes.
16 Jul 2008
(Film: Feature/ Review)
2 Jul 2008
Hancock takes its superhero's dilemma seriously. Roman de Gare is a form of fun that's delirious, unashamed and, in its own offbeat way, very French.
2 Jul 2008
(Film: Feature/ Review)
18 Jun 2008
If a study of steroid use doesn't sound like the recipe for a compelling film, you haven't seen Bigger, Stronger, Faster.
Why would Hou Hsiao-hsien go off to France and make a Juliette Binoche movie?
Why would Hou Hsiao-hsien go off to France and make a Juliette Binoche movie?
18 Jun 2008
(Film: Feature/ Review)
4 Jun 2008
The Duchess of Langeais is a work of extraordinarily subtle beauty and concentrated meaning.
4 Jun 2008
(Film: Feature/ Review)
21 May 2008
The new film is like so many other fantasy-spectaculars nowadays in that it leads us relentlessly toward a cyclone of action and effects that inevitably buries all meaning and possibility under the weight of overdetermined conventions.
21 May 2008
(Film: Feature/ Review)
7 May 2008
Style, in any case, is where Wong puts most of his energy in My Blueberry Nights. Redbelt is bizarre.
7 May 2008
(Film: Feature/ Review)
23 Apr 2008
Flawless is close to flawless. Parts of Joe Strummer draw into question the possibility of maintaining a serious political stance amid the hot-house distractions of rock stardom.
23 Apr 2008
(Film: Feature/ Review)
9 Apr 2008
From the Carolina through the Galaxy, and points related
9 Apr 2008
(News: Feature)
David Gordon Green's Snow Angels strikes me as the best new fiction film of 2008, as well as the filmmaker's most accomplished work to date. The Counterfeiters turns out to be a gripping, sharply mounted drama that illuminates an obscure historical episode of extraordinary fascinations.
9 Apr 2008
(Film: Feature/ Review)
2 Apr 2008
I was prepared to see Mick and the boys looking older, but the facial images in the verite opening of Scorsese's doc still stunned me.
2 Apr 2008
(Film: Feature/ Review)
19 Mar 2008
This is one of those abundance-of-riches weeks for Triangle filmgoers, since it will see the arrival of two of the year's most important films. I wish I could devote a full column to each of these films. I urge you to see both.
19 Mar 2008
(Film: Feature/ Review)
5 Mar 2008
British cinema may not abound in truly memorable crime movies, but every once in a while, a fine one pops up that reminds us of its gritty lineage.
5 Mar 2008
(Film: Feature/ Review)
27 Feb 2008
Starting Out is a smart, subtle, beautifully nuanced evocation of the New York literary world.
27 Feb 2008
(Film: Feature/ Review)
6 Feb 2008
Persepolis is confidently cosmopolitan in its outlook and resonances; Allen's creativity seems inexhaustible, and the modest, unprepossessing Cassandra's Dream strikes me as one of his best
6 Feb 2008
(Film: Feature/ Review)
30 Jan 2008
Although it eschews biography in order to follow Carter on an intensive nationwide book tour, Demme's chronicle touches on numerous aspects of a life that arguably has been as extraordinarily influential and beneficent since his presidency as during it.
30 Jan 2008
(Film: Feature/ Review)
16 Jan 2008
If there were Oscars for portions of movies, I'll grant you that the initial hour of Anderson's opus would deserve that Best Picture trophy.
16 Jan 2008
(Film: Feature/ Review)
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