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Girl gets schooled in vibrant An Education
An Education sweeps us along as a teenage girl makes dangerous choices that are completely understandable in the emotional context of the film.
By David Fellerath | 18 Nov 2009

The Twilight Saga: New Moon is like One Tree Hill with fangs
You'd hope for plenty of sucking in a movie about vampires ... just not the figurative kind.
By Neil Morris | 19 Nov 2009

A squalid wallow in Precious
Only an African-American filmmaker could get away with making Precious. That's meant as both a compliment and a criticism.
By Neil Morris | 18 Nov 2009

The world ends again in Roland Emmerich's 2012
There's $200 million up on that screen, folks, and about midway through 2012's 158 excruciating minutes, I found myself wishing the screen itself would explode and put me out of my misery.
By David Fellerath | 11 Nov 2009

The Coens' latest in comic misanthropy, A Serious Man
If you're a character in a movie by the Coens, you can't even win by getting on their side.
By Nathan Gelgud | 4 Nov 2009

Ong Bak 2 fails to kick sequelitis
For fans looking for no more than highly stylized, choreographed martial artistry, you've come to right place.
By Neil Morris | 28 Oct 2009

Coco Before Chanel needs a stylist
If only Audrey Tatou could have summoned a little more fire to melt the glacial pace of this ambitious biopic.
By Laura Boyes | 28 Oct 2009

The rushed, patchwork Michael Jackson's This Is It reminds us of what we've lost
Audiences will walk away sure of two things: It would have been a hell of a concert, and it was—leaving all else aside—a brilliant career.
By Neil Morris | 28 Oct 2009

Chris Rock's doc, Good Hair, examines cultural bias against black hairstyles
African-Americans comprise 12 percent of the national population, yet they purchase 80 percent of the country's hair care products.
By Neil Morris | 21 Oct 2009

Forget the psychoanalysis, let Where the Wild Things Are run
Every frame of Wild Things is dynamically composed, and no stretch of boring exposition is long enough to get truly frustrating.
By Nathan Gelgud | 19 Oct 2009

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