THIS JUST IN: Ellen DeGeneres is leaving “American Idol.” Read more:
NEW TODAY: Peter Benchley did more for the swimming pool industry than anyone -- until now. The author of Jaws lost his title to the Discovery Channel, which, each year, hosts a week dedicated to getting people out of the ocean. They call it Shark Week, but we know it’s a front for the swimming pool industry. Read entire review:
NEW TODAY: Kevin Kline is brilliant in “The Extra Man.” His performance is a tour de force. Unfortunately, the rest of the film is a forced tour. Read entire review:
Charlie St. Cloud is the perfect vehicle for Zac Efron. It offers everything his fan base wants: romance, topless scenes, rippling muscles. Read entire review:
With more reliability than fanfare, Robert Duvall has compiled a vast filmography studded with impressive performances. In Get Low, his latest feature, he puts forth another such effort, one perhaps as flawless as any he’s ever given. Read entire review:
Contrary to the throbbing drama of “The Killing Fields,” the 1984 feature on the brutal reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, “Enemies of the People” is a decidedly still and reflective record of the period.
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The winner of the Earth DVD contest is.... Could it be you? Did you enter? Read on:
Though heartfelt to a fault, “Entre Nos” is more distinguished by its earnestness than its authenticity and narrative strength. Read entire review:
Ip Man earned 12 Hong Kong Film Award nominations and generated $21 million when it was released in Asia in 2008. Read entire review:
What Todd Solondz does in Life During Wartime is not strictly comic; prickly humor is laced throughout, but in hybrid form. Read entire review:
Salt is the first great action movie of the summer. And by summer action movie, I mean mindless entertainment -- in the best sense of the word mindless. Read entire review:
Blue Bloods is scheduled for a deadly time spot -- Fridays at 10 p.m. But it worked a long time for Numbers -- and Blue Bloods seems infinitely superior. See the trailer here:
French feature Farewell (L’Affaire Farewell) -- a real-life SALT --is a taut and involving thriller that focuses on an actual episode of early ‘80s espionage. Read review:
We have the photo of Allen Shane, a winner, unlike you. Here:
Langston Hughes’ poem “Genius Child” opens the similarly titled documentary “Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child.” In its lines are the suggestion of the enigma and often lonely state of brilliance. Read entire review:
In its latest issue, Entertainment Weekly columnist Mark Harris writes a politically correct love letter to The Kids Are All Right. Read Politically Correct Reviews:
Forget about “Friday the 13th” or Freddy Krueger. You’re not likely to encounter a more frightening film than Lucy Walker’s documentary “Countdown to Zero.” Read entire review:
What is that you say? Our bodies don’t have to age; we do not have to die? That’s the message from a new documentary, To Age or Not to Age.” Read on:
The ridiculously grandiose intertitles of “Valhalla Rising” would inform you that Part V of the film is entitled “Hell.” Don’t be misled, Parts I through IV and VI also qualify. Read entire review:
Inception is worth seeing for the brilliance of its execution alone. Read entire review:
Welcome to the Rileys is a powerful drama about finding hope in the most unusual of places, starring James Gandolfini, Melissa Leo and Kristen Stewart. Trailer:
We have a first look at the trailer of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s directing debut, here:
The Kids Are All Right was beginning to look like a male porno fantasy. When the dirty version comes out, “The Boys Are All Right, Ladies,” Nik no doubt joins them in a threesome. Read entire review:
Despicable Me is the latest entry in the animated 3-D derby, a race apparently intended to squeeze every last penny from the wallets of parents too guilty to tell their kids to go out and find a way to enjoy yourself outside with other kids. Read entire review:
There are a number of things that are perfect about “Hot Tub Time Machine”: For one, there is not a single vampire. Read entire review:
The basic premise of the Percy Jackson books and the film is that its protagonist, is unknowingly a demigod -- that is, the product of a union between a God -- in his case, Poseidon (one of the Big Three) -- and a mortal -- in this case Catherine Keener. Read entire review:
Mastery of the Elements plays a major role in M. Night Shyamalan’s “The Last Airbender.” However, while air, water and fire are manipulated throughout by the principle personae, those of surprise and suspense are conspicuously outside the director’s grasp. Read review:
Great Directors is an often excellent and occasionally annoying documentary steeped in a love of cinema and an appreciation for the artists who create it. Read entire review:
There is nothing of the tortured artist about David Hockney. Over 70 years old, he remains passionate about his craft and enthused at the prospect of new challenges. Read review:
Director Varda, the Agnes of the title, informally known as the Grandmother of the French New Wave, has led a life of considerable texture and creativity. Read entire review:
Grown Ups is a very funny Adam Sandler movie spoiled by good intentions. Or it is a moving film about middle age spoiled by childish humor. In short: any way you look at it, “Grown Ups” is flawed. But depending upon your tolerance for pee-pee jokes, it still is entertaining. Read entire review:
The Restrepo footage captured in the midst of fire is jarring and powerful, yet the sober reflections offered by the soldiers during post-tour interviews provide the more affecting moments of the film. Read entire review:
Cyrus is a romantic comedy. Sort of. And it is the “sort of” that’s the problem. Read entire review:
With the modest central premise of conducting an interview featuring an aspiring politician as its subject, Agnes Jaoui’s “Let it Rain” launches an amusing and thoughtful comedy of manners. Read entire review:
The first thing you need know is that The Killer Inside Me is violent far beyond normal movie violence. This is pornographic violence. Read entire review:
What the world needs now is love, sweet love. What it doesn’t need is another vampire movie/TV show/book series -- especially one that -- how to put this? -- lacks bite. Read review of The Gates:
Any film with the moxie to be entitled “I Am Love” (“Io sono l’Amore”) clearly has notions of some sort of grandeur. Though it takes a fair portion of this subtly affecting feature before it’s evident just what those notions might be, by the time of its rousing finale, Love -- the emotion as well as the film -- has indeed proven to be Grand. Read entire review:
What one gets in Karate Kid is a lengthy introduction to Hollywood’s newest Golden Child, Will and Jada Pinkett’s son Jaden Smith, who is likely to be holding the keys to a studio backlot by the time he sprouts whiskers. Read entire review:
The notion of a romantic liaison between fashion legend Coco Chanel and Russian composer Igor Stravinsky is full of sizzle. Read entire review:
Finding Bliss is a delightful and funny film about doing business in Hollywood and porn -- or is that redundant? The story is based on filmmaker Julie Davis’ life. Read entire review:
Though far from the most sublime study of age anxiety, “Solitary Man” is a subtle and affecting film. Read entire review:
City Island is a funny, sad, absurdist comedy that smacks of authenticity. It is a measure of director/screenwriter Raymond De Felitta’s considerable skill that he was able to merge these disparate elements into a film far better than the sum of its parts. Read entire review:
