Particle Fever review: asking really big questions about the smallest possible things
A funny, exhilarating, suspenseful documentary about the Large Hadron Collider, and how physics is more akin to philosophy and art than you may have imagined.
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300: Rise of an Empire review: Artemisia rocks
Eva Green stalks this movie with pride and honor, and is almost the only thing worth watching amidst frenetic CGI battles and endless ancient carnage.
The Lunchbox review: when souls meet (for a meal)
A charming, bittersweet, utterly chaste love affair forged over food and cemented by kindred spirits.
20 Feet from Stardom: raw real voices
This must-see music documentary introduces us to the extraordinary women you didn’t know were behind some of the songs you know by heart.
Cutie and the Boxer review: a canvas of her own
A sly, subversive portrait of an artist finally finding her voice… and the “genius” husband in whose shadow she has long lingered.
Ernest & Celestine review: bear and mouse are friends
Might be the most ridiculously cute movie I’ve ever seen, in a way that transforms adorableness into something honest and wise and deeply satisfying.
The Book Thief review: don’t mention the war…
Thoughtful tweens and teens interested in adventurous stories of kids their own age should love this, but adults may find the light tone off-putting.
Stalingrad review: life among the ruins
Russia’s first 3D IMAX spectacle is visually intense, but I never warmed to a story meant to be about human resilience.
The Pretty One review: in her shoes
Far too blithe and cheery, yet nowhere near madcap and comic enough, for its potentially powerful switched-twins conceit…
Endless Love review: no more Daddy’s little girl
Shockingly not terrible, and says some things that need to be said more often, like how dads do not own their teenaged daughters…
