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Gran Torino Gran Torino
Walt Kowalski growls a lot — a dyspeptic rumble that wells up from deep inside his belly when he catches sight of his midriff-baring... More>>
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: January 08, 2009

The Unborn
Odette Yustman plays Casey, a well-heeled young suburbanite who's been having bad dreams. The night terrors begin to infest her waking life when... More>>
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: January 08, 2009
Critical Mass Critical Mass
The Best Movies of 2008
When our often-contentious film critics put their heads together about the best movies of 2008, they managed to agree (more or less) on a dozen.... More>>
Published: January 01, 2009

Let the Right One In
This lucid indie gem from Sweden, adapted for the screen by John Ajvide Lindqvist from his novel and directed with imagination and restraint by... More>>
By Elena Oumano
Published: January 01, 2009

The Reader
Director Stephen Daldry does a fatally respectful take on the acclaimed 1995 novel by Bernhard Schlink about German culpability for the... More>>
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: January 01, 2009
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is certainly curious — a modest F. Scott Fitzgerald story, about a man born in the twilight of life who... More>>
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: December 25, 2008
Frost/Nixon Frost/Nixon
Richard Nixon as muse — beetle brows, ski nose and mirthless grin, made for caricature, and his rampant pathology add up to a gift for... More>>
By J. HOBERMAN
Published: December 25, 2008

Bedtime Stories
The Adam Sandler who shows up in Bedtime Stories is that most unnecessary of movie-star guises: the benign family-comedy guy. Sandler plays a... More>>
By Tim Grierson
Published: December 25, 2008

A Christmas Tale
This comic, ultimately touching family melodrama is a heady plum pudding of a movie — studded with outsized performances and drenched in... More>>
By J. HOBERMAN
Published: December 25, 2008

Doubt
With bristling topicality, a ritzy cast and Roger Deakins' gracefully bleak cinematography, John Patrick Shanley's movie is prime Oscar bait. In... More>>
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: December 25, 2008

Marley & Me
The movie version of John Grogan's best-selling memoir lacks a crucial ingredient: any sense of what made its hero different from every other... More>>
By Jim Ridley
Published: December 25, 2008

Valkyrie
Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise) plotted to kill Hitler in 1944 in order to seize control of Germany and broker a... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 25, 2008
Seven Pounds Seven Pounds
Two years ago, nearly to the day, Will Smith and Italian director Gabriele Muccino released The Pursuit of Happyness, one of the most underrated... More>>
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: December 18, 2008

Yes Man
Not the Liar Liar sequel it looks to be in the trailer, but close enough: Jim Carrey plays self-absorbed Carl Allen, who green-lights every bad... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 18, 2008

The Tale of Despereaux
Kate DiCamillo's 2003 children's novel about a big-eared mouse with an inspiring case of shining-knight envy is one of the finest expositions for... More>>
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: December 18, 2008
Milk Milk
Gus Van Sant has never been a risk-averse filmmaker, but he directs his Harvey Milk biopic so carefully, there might be a Ming vase balanced on... More>>
By J. HOBERMAN
Published: December 11, 2008

Nothing Like the Holidays
The Rodriguez kids, spread far from their native Chicago, reunite for Christmas under the roof of their patriarch (Alfred Molina). Spruce with... More>>
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: December 11, 2008
Slumdog Millionaire
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Who doesn't in this economy, even if the currency in question is rupees and winning means being pegged as a fraud... More>>
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: December 11, 2008
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Robert Wise's 1951 film was a condemnation of Cold War paranoia and a Christ allegory. Scott Derrickson's remake pulls off a few fine sequences,... More>>
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: December 11, 2008

Cadillac Records
For a film "based on a true story" — that of Leonard and Phil Chess' eponymous record label, featuring the likes of Muddy Waters (Jeffrey... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: December 04, 2008
Australia Australia
You don't have to have been raised on colonial Brit lit, classic melodramas, Westerns or war movies to figure out, within 15 minutes, the likely... More>>
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: November 27, 2008

Four Christmases
This story of couple Kate and Brad (Reese Witherspoon, Vince Vaughn) — not married, might as well be — who, fogged in on December 25,... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: November 27, 2008

Transporter 3
Jason Statham — super-ripped, bullet-headed, and expression-adjusted to Perma-Scowl — reprises his role as the world's studliest... More>>
By Jim Ridley
Published: November 27, 2008
Synecdoche, New York Synecdoche, New York
If you traveled the length of John Malkovich's medulla oblongata, hung a sharp left at the desk where Samuel Beckett's Krapp recorded his last... More>>
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: November 20, 2008

Fear(s) of the Dark
While some may snicker at "graphic novel" as a term for comic books that take themselves too seriously, the French analogue — bande... More>>
By Aaron Hillis
Published: November 20, 2008
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