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Though it was mostly noted for its cult performers and scenester ambience, the film's Criterion edition positions it firmly amid the commercial groundswell of independent cinema
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Marrit Ingman, Jan. 26, 2007
The Hitcher
This remake of Robert Harmon's original 1986 horror semiclassic serves as a primer in how not to generate suspense.
Marc Savlov, Jan. 26, 2007
Venus
Peter O'Toole, in an Oscar-caliber and -nominated performance, pulls off the tricky May-December relationship at the heart of Venus with colossal panache and sublime craft.
Marc Savlov, Jan. 26, 2007
Inland Empire
Not reviewed at press time. David Lynch's latest mindfuck pits Nikki Grace (Laura Dern) and Devon Berk (Justin Theroux) against the characters they're playing in a cursed fictional film.
Darcie Stevens, Jan. 26, 2007
Smokin' Aces
A person could have a reasonably good time with this confusing, Tarantinoid actioner starring Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Jeremy Piven, and Alicia Keys, but there’s not actually much tension in the movie.
Marrit Ingman, Jan. 26, 2007
Arthur and the Invisibles
Live-action/animation hybrid from Luc Besson features a host of hip vocal talent but little more.
Marrit Ingman, Jan. 19, 2007
Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2007
The boys are back with their hyper-filthy animation show.
Marc Savlov, Jan. 19, 2007
Letters From Iwo Jima
In his companion film to Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood again shows the process by which young soldiers become unwitting fodder for their country's war effort.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Jan. 19, 2007
St. Elsewhere: Season One
ER? Grey's Anatomy? Scrubs? Hapless interns all.
Steve Uhler, Jan. 19, 2007
Notes on a Scandal
This movie with Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett is a hothouse psychodrama, full of outrageous and florid sentiments that are made semipalatable by the quality of the craftsmanship involved.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Jan. 12, 2007
'Monsters and Madmen'
The Haunted Strangler, Corridors of Blood, First Man Into Space, and The Atomic Submarine
Marc Savlov, Jan. 12, 2007
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Adapted from Patrick Süskind's heretofore unadaptable cult novel about an olfactory vampire in 18th-century France, Perfume is a gorgeous but woefully overlong and ultimately misguided mess.
Marc Savlov, Jan. 12, 2007
Stomp the Yard
Although littered with clichés and shopworn manipulations, this film's intervening dance sequences are so captivating that it’s almost possible to forget you’ve seen this movie a hundred times before.
Josh Rosenblatt, Jan. 12, 2007
Code Name: The Cleaner
For anyone venturing to see this so-called comedy, it will be hard to remember that Cedric the Entertainer is actually funny. Or rather, he can be.
Toddy Burton, Jan. 12, 2007
Happily N'Ever After
The animated Happily N'Ever After isn't just cynically humorless, it's shoddy-looking to boot.
Marc Savlov, Jan. 12, 2007
Curse of the Golden Flower
The rather emotionally insignificant melodrama at the center of this film is given only minimal cover from scrutiny by Zhang Yimou’s visual virtuosity.
Josh Rosenblatt, Jan. 12, 2007
Volver
No working male director loves the community of women more than Almodóvar, and Volver is his ode of love to women’s congress and fortitude.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Jan. 12, 2007
Pan's Labyrinth
Pan’s Labyrinth catapults Guillermo del Toro to the top ranks of international filmmakers: His dark and fertile imagination appears to have no limit.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Jan. 12, 2007
Alpha Dog
It’s a soggy true-crime drama – too serious to be trashy, too trashy to be serious.
Marrit Ingman, Jan. 12, 2007
Thr3e
A Christian psychological horror thriller based on a novel by bestselling Christian author Ted Dekker, Thr3e nevertheless adopts the extreme-horror tactics currently in vogue in movies such as the Saw continuum.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Jan. 5, 2007
Freedom Writers
Although based on a true story, this is another movie in which the cute white lady goes into an irascible high school and makes everybody love learnin'.
Marrit Ingman, Jan. 5, 2007
Little Children
A modern Emma Bovary and her should-have-been Mr. Right discover that while their suburban American lives may yet have a second act, it could well end up as a tragedy.
Marc Savlov, Jan. 5, 2007
Man Push Cart
A small gem of a film about a small man doing small things in a very, very, very large world.
Marc Savlov, Jan. 5, 2007
Children of Men
Children of Men brims with cinematic gusto, but the plot raises more questions than it answers.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Jan. 5, 2007
The Cave of the Yellow Dog
Shot on location in Mongolia with a real nomad family, The Cave of the Yellow Dog blurs the line between documentary and fiction and, in doing so, creates its own singular dramatic language.
Josh Rosenblatt, Dec. 29, 2006
The Painted Veil
Set in China and starring Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, and Liev Schreiber, this melodic adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel is the story of many things – but it is most of all the story of a marriage.
Marrit Ingman, Dec. 29, 2006
City of Men
Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Mereilles-produced City of Men goes a long way to expanding the vocabulary of television and moving the medium toward a more cinematic approach
Josh Rosenblatt, Dec. 29, 2006
Black Christmas
Although this horror remake isn't as suspenseful or emotionally draining as its influential 1974 predecessor, the film almost makes up for that with its overriding weirdness.
Marc Savlov, Dec. 29, 2006
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
Like a dream, the Quay Brothers' The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes is wispy and ethereal; like a nightmare, it lodges in your hindbrain and gnaws away with gleeful abandon.
Marc Savlov, Dec. 29, 2006
The History Boys
If you like your British movies quick, raunchy, reflective, and bittersweet, then The History Boys, based on the stage play, is for you.
Toddy Burton, Dec. 22, 2006
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