The Perfect Holiday (review)
Picking the single dumbest element in this extremely dumb movie is easy.
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Interview (review)
I can’t get on the Sienna Miller bandwagon. I can damn with faint praise: she’s perfectly competent as an actor — but that’s it.
December Boys (review)
This pleasant coming-of-age tale is mostly notable for one of its young stars: ‘Harry Potter’’s Daniel Radcliffe…
Border Cafe (review)
The Iranian film industry has produced some of the most beautiful films made on planet Earth in recent years…
The Young Ones: Extra Stoopid Edition (review)
The image looks its age and the sound is resolutely mono, but this 1982-4 BBC sitcom broke such important ground on both sides of the Atlantic that is should be considered essential viewing for anyone who wants to understand the changes television went through in the 1980s.
Run Granny Run (review)
This is the glorious nation where, our moms tells us, anyone can run for president. A 94-year-old New Hampshire woman put that supposition to the test — almost — when she ran for the U.S. Senate in 2004.
History of a Secret (review)
Filmmaker Mariana Otero set out to explore the great secret of her childhood — where was her mother? — and ended up with a powerful and provocative meditation on family loyalty and the clandestine power of silence.
Margot at the Wedding (review)
If you think Nicole Kidman is icy and aloof as lady villain Mrs. Coulter in the alterna-world fantasy *The Golden Compass,* wait till you see her in *Margot at the Wedding*…
The Golden Compass (review)
It’s a bit Cliffs Notes-y, but to be fair, screenwriter and director Chris Weitz has taken a sprawling story with a large number of players and condensed it extraordinarily well…
Beyond the Golden Compass: The Magic of Philip Pullman (review)
A slapped-together documentary about Philip Pullman and his ‘His Dark Materials’ fantasy trilogy…
