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Don't believe the hype: American Psycho is no more “the most disgusting film of the year” (as dodgy Brit tabloid News of the World tagged it) than it is the wittiest. Instead, it falls somewhere in ...
Thirteen years after American Pie jump-started sexual innuendo for a new generation, this sequel is the best one in the series.
Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper tell Chris Kyle's war story.
At the center of its uniquely beating heart, American Splendor is a heartfelt valentine to Everymen (and Women) everywhere
A princess, jock, rebel, heartthrob, and geek: It could be The Breakfast Club, but American Teen is instead a documentary that ducks the consequences of its own making.
The rants of the late, great stand-up comic Bill Hicks sound as fresh and brilliant as ever.
This stoner action rom-com stars Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart
Kurt Warner biopic is too winsome to win big
This moving message film tells a story about a miscarriage of Texas justice.
Jesse Dylan’s first feature was the ganja-infused comedy How High, which, while not exactly a high-bongwater mark in the annals of stoner merriment, managed to keep my dog fixated on the TV screen the other day, ...
Sienna Miller pulls pages from a journal of loss in small town
George Clooney stars in this thoughtful thriller from the director of Control, the biopic about Joy Division's Ian Curtis.
Inspirational documentary is about Americans with true grit working in a land where seldom is heard a discouraging word.
Cross-cultural love between a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi girl flourishes in the Big Apple.
Amistad (1997, 155 min., R)
Amistad is a disappointment if the standard for judging Steven Spielberg's new film is the state of mute, stumbling devastation that Schindler's List inspired in its viewers. The story it recounts, an 1839 slave rebellion aboard ...
A dream home on Long Island is not all it's cracked up to be: The family inside sees dead people.
Ammonite (2020, 117 min., R)
History takes second place in this paleontology biopic as passions are unearthed
Three stories about beast and man.
Amos & Andrew is a better-than-average comedy that's likable enough while unfolding but evaporative when over. It takes a topical subject -- racial prejudice -- and combines it with a familiar narrative strategy -- mistaken identity ...
Amour (2013, 127 min., PG-13)
Death is part of love’s bargain, a fact filmmaker Michael Haneke lays bare.
Amreeka (2009, 96 min., PG-13)
In this delightfully human and sweetly comic ode to the contemporary immigrant experience in a post-9/11 “Amreeka,” a Palestinian mother and son create a world of possibilities.
Amsterdam (2022, 134 min., R)
David O. Russell's madcap murder-mystery is a misfire
Amulet (2020, 100 min., NR)
Supernatural thriller is more mood than meaning
Amundsen (2021, 105 min., NR)
Biopic of the polar explorers balances his achievements and his destructiveness
Romero's lost film is more than a curio
Amy (2015, 128 min., R)
Doc about the life of Amy Winehouse is revelatory, amusing, and deeply devastating
She's a “feminist icon” with a best-selling self-help manual and hordes of Ellen Jamesian-like fans who wear baby-Ts emblazoned with slogans proclaiming their independence from men. So why is Amy Mandell (Davis) strangely attracted to Matthew ...
An American Rhapsody has many things to recommend it. Among them are its non-exploitative glimpse at the immigrant experience as seen through the eyes of a teenage girl, its sober take on the issues of mother-daughter ...
Produced by Steven Spielberg, this animated film follows the further adventures of the Mousekewitz family, who came to America to escape the cat pogroms.
In horror terms, 16 years is a dang nigh unprecedented span between an original movie and a sequel. There must have been--what? -- seven or eight Friday the 13th sequels in less than half that time. ...