Project Nim

The story of a science experiment in which a chimpanzee was raised as a human child is recounted in this heartbreaking documentary.

"...using sign language. At first, Nim lives in a Manhattan brownstone with a hippielike couple and their seven children,..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Friends With Benefits

This Mila Kunis/Justin Timberlake rom-com is smart enough to decry Hollywood’s romantic clichés but never savvy enough to truly subvert them.

"...on out. They’re professional acquaintances first, with Jamie, a Manhattan headhunter, recruiting L.A. native Dylan for a job opening..."

July 22, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Morning Glory

Well-acted and ingratiating, this rom-com starring Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, and Diane Keaton should still be tarter than it is.

"...next scene, in which Becky races on foot across Manhattan. Michell's camera swoops, the soundtrack swells, and that pretty..."

Nov. 12, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

In the Kitchen With a Good Appetite: 150 Recipes & Stories About the Food You Love

Clark is a gifted cook and a talented writer, so when cooking from her recipes, successes just keep on coming

"...more thorough. For example, the recipe for a rye Manhattan is indexed not by "rye" or "whiskey" or "Manhattan"..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Food Feature by MM Pack

The Tigress Bar and Cocktails

The sweetest little bar in town serves up classic cocktails

"...made up of pre-Prohibition standards like the sidecar, the manhattan, and a righteous martini, plus newly revived classics like..."

Sept. 17, 2010 Food Review by Claudia Alarcón

Date Night

Steve Carell and Tina Fey star as a married couple in this wan comedy that tones down their edge for popular consumption.

"...(Carell and Fey) when they decide to go into Manhattan for a date-night dinner at a new trendy restaurant..."

April 9, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

I Want My H&M!!!

Why has H&M left the Lone Star state out in the cold?

"...first time I walked into H&M's flagship store on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Anxious shoppers had eagerly waited in long..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Design Post by Christopher Carbone

Big Fan

In this dark new film from the screenwriter of The Wrestler, a New York Giants fan and regular caller to a sports radio talk show snatches rededication from the jaws of disillusionment.

"...and surreptitiously follow him to a strip club in Manhattan, where all hell breaks loose once they finally encounter..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Andrew Bujalski talks it out

The Reverse Shot Talkie web series goes vintage shopping with the Beeswax filmmaker

"...as the pair rummage through the Family Jewels, a Manhattan vintage store. It's a reference to the setting of..."

Aug. 12, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Julie & Julia

Meryl Streep is irresistible as Julia Child as is Nora Ephron's direction, but Amy Adams' Julie Powell is a dud – a mousy, grouchy irritant.

"...job (as a caseworker for the reconstruction of Lower Manhattan), her higher-achieving friends, her recent move to Queens, and..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Occupational Hazards

Close encounters of the clerking kind at Vulcan and I Luv Video

"...And I'm not the only one. Manhattan Beach Video Archives counts among its former employees a..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM

We did not fall from the Garden; we journeyed away

"...the primitive: a city. Be it Athens, Tenochtitlán, or Manhattan – a city. They rise and fall, they change..."

July 31, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

The Proposal

The Proposal doesn't reinvent the romantic-comedy wheel, but Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds ensure that it's a likable cut above the usual fare.

"...comedy since 2002's Two Weeks Notice, plays an all-work-and-no-play Manhattan literary editor named Margaret Tate. When the Canadian-born Margaret..."

June 19, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Watchmen

Although this hotly anticipated film has ideas galore, it remains bizarrely cold and uninvolving.

"...– one brief sequence of the towering man-god Dr. Manhattan (Crudup) decimating a group of fleeing Vietcong is unforgettable..."

March 6, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Transporter 3

Jason Statham returns for the third venture in this action series, which is surprisingly better than you might expect.

"...hype is to be believed, was working in a Manhattan salon where she was spotted by one of Besson's..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sylvia

A.R. Gurney's play about a man and his dog is fun but makes a mess of its message

"...wealthy couple living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Their kids have left for college, so Kate is..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

Synecdoche, New York

Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s first venture as a director is audacious, ambitious, and amazing; it’s also intricate, self-referencing, and all-encompassing: in a word, a masterpiece.

"...to mount a massive theatre project and moves to Manhattan from Schenectady (hint: the title’s pronunciation is much like..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Women

This remake of the 1939 George Cukor film isn't particularly fun or funny.

"...Mary Haines (Ryan) tries on high-end lingerie at a Manhattan boutique, only to discover that the mistress of the..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Wackness

An odd-couple pairing between a teenage pot dealer and the shrink with whom he trades weed for sessions anchors this story about coming of age in New York City during the Nineties.

"...years at Sarah Lawrence, a brief stint at a Manhattan publishing house, and a couple of failed marriages away..."

July 25, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Visitor

The writer/director of The Station Agent is back with another interpersonal drama that is strangely both predictable and unpredictable.

"...deliver a paper he co-authored, he stays at the Manhattan apartment he once shared with his wife and still..."

April 25, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Frances McDormand's Miss Pettigrew is an unemployed nanny who bluffs her way into a job as the "social secretary" for the brain-dead, proto-fashionista, Yank-on-holiday starlet Delysia Lafosse, played by Amy Adams.

"..."What ho, Jeeves!" indeed. (However, watching McDormand read the Manhattan white pages to herself in a dark room would,..."

March 7, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cloverfield

Cloverfield is a pure-blood, grade A, exultantly exhilarating monster movie in the grand tradition.

"...theatre, watching all hell break spectacularly loose in Lower Manhattan, again, you can't help but wish that giant behemoths..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Talking With Tribeca

"...night. Steve's film is more structured geographically, from Upper Manhattan to Lower Manhattan, and so, to me, it's a..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Screens Feature

Enchanted

Romance, dry satire, and musical comedy blend in this new Disney film, which stars a delightful Amy Adams.

"...It’s impossible to watch Adams navigate herself through Midtown Manhattan in an enormous hoop skirt and not grin from..."

Nov. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Karen Kuykendall: In Memoriam

When this performer and friend of the arts died on Oct. 31, the city lost the grandest of its grande dames

"...songs and great American standards under the name Café Manhattan. That pairing, as right as scotch and soda, almost..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Bee Movie

Jerry Seinfeld delivers an agreeable though tame animated picture that more than does the trick but is unlikely to become a superbuzz movie.

"...from television, but you can't get him to leave Manhattan). No nectar of the gods this, but we can..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Brave One

Jodie Foster might be good at playing a master of vengeance, but The Brave One turns out to be little more than an upscale B-movie about getting even.

"...armed with a handgun, stalking the nighttime streets of Manhattan like some stealth superhero dispensing her own brand of..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Spider-Man 3

When cascading through the cityscape, Spider-Man 3 still makes us gasp with delight, but on Earth those gasps come solely in reaction to the cynical dreariness of the script.

"...bob and weave through the skyscrapered air space of Manhattan have been stunningly rendered by director Raimi and cinematographer..."

May 4, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

I Think I Love My Wife

Who would have ever guessed that Chris Rock would be the guy to film an American remake of Eric Rohmer's meditation on fidelity, Chloe in the Afternoon?

"...he sees, particularly during his daily work commute to Manhattan. But aside from his sexless marriage, obsessive fantasies, and..."

March 23, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Reign Over Me

This Adam Sandler and Don Cheadle film is often disjointed and needlessly sentimental, though the film's whole often compensates for its sketchy parts.

"...several years after 9/11 – wanders the streets of Manhattan on an electric scooter with ear-encasing headphones clamped to..."

March 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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