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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.

Yeah, it's cool to kiss off Charlie Kaufman. But it's also idiotic.

Slumdog Millionaire, Synedoche, New York confirmed

Scenes from the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival

July 11-15

Roy Ayers in the sunshine

A giggly summer movie, Get Smart is a well-cast chip off the old block, although the toothless action sequences detract from the comedy.

Although Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood deliver strong performances, this film from the director of House of Sand and Fog is a muddled affront.

Girls Rock! chronicles a camp where girls do just that

Mumblecore baby Greta Gerwig acts, writes, directs, enunciates properly

Feb. 8-14

Florida art books

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

Joel Schumacher and Jim Carrey combine their dubious talents to create an even more dubious movie in which a man becomes obsessed with the number 23.

Michel Gondry's film is messy, confusing, painful, and ultimately, thanks in no small measure to the unfettered talents of Gael García Bernal and Charlotte Gainsbourg, utterly rewarding.

First-time producer Jimmy Buffett turns outs an eco-friendly coming-of-age movie based on Carl Hiassen's Newberry Award-winning young-adult novel.

Life, fiction, and selling out

Friday

Although the film hasn't the distinctive fingerprints of Eternal Sunshine director Michel Gondry, Chappelle's party is nevertheless a fun blast of impromptu musicmaking, filmmaking, and comedy.

The French still like to get their sex on, a fact confirmed again and again in this breezy, featherweight sex farce.

More puff, pastrywise; plus, Tommy Li, Bollywood, and William Dunmire

The critical consensus at 'The Austin Chronicle' deems 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' the best movie of the year

At age 22, as a researcher for Granada Television, Michael Apted was charged with finding participants for a documentary project that, unbeknownst to him, would become his life's work

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Possibly the ideal film to more or less ignore while lounging poolside and sipping Jamaican rum, After the Sunset is 100-proof pap.

An existential comedy, to be sure, but in the end this movie quite happily tips toward being and everythingness.

John Sayles adds his cinematic two cents to this election year’s plethora of politically minded movies.

Tim Burton is all grown up and getting serious.

Stephen gets on all fours for the holidays. You heard it here first.