Gus Van Sant's Milk recaptures Californian intolerance at exactly the right time
By J. Hoberman
Thursday, November 27
Gus Van Sant has never been what you'd call a risk-averse filmmaker, but he directs his Harvey Milk biopic so carefully, there might be a Ming... More >>
Welcome to Baz Luhrmann's not-quite-marvelous land of Oz
By Ella Taylor
Thursday, November 27
You don't have to have been raised on colonial Brit Lit, classic melodramas, Westerns or war movies, or Gone With the Wind to figure out the... More >>
Bollywood Meets Hollywood in Danny Boyle's latest.
By Scott Foundas
Thursday, November 20
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Well, who wouldn't in this economy, even if the currency in question is rupees and winning the loot means being... More >>
Back in 2005, Dorothy Stang died thousands of miles away, in the Amazon jungle where the 73-year-old nun had spent decades trying to help poor... More >>
Kristin Scott Thomas shines as a child killer in I've Loved You So Long
By Ella Taylor
Thursday, November 20
Kristin Scott Thomas has gotten so locked into playing tragic victims or frigid grandes dames that few remember the actress got her big break as... More >>
Art imitates life imitating art in Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York
By Scott Foundas
Thursday, November 13
If you traveled the length of John Malkovich's medulla oblongata, hung a sharp left at the desk where Beckett's Krapp recorded his last tape and... More >>
Marc Forster has a license to confuse and bore in Quantum of Solace
By Robert Wilonsky
Thursday, November 13
Those of us who adored Casino Royale, the 2006 reboot of the haggard, self-parodic James Bond franchise, had some trouble trying to decide where... More >>
If the dream of every comic is to have his humor live on long after he's left the stage, then the late Bernie Mac has exited this world on a high... More >>
Role Models is smarter and bawdier than your average boys-to-men movie
By Robert Wilonsky
Thursday, November 06
Paul Rudd wears a constant look of glazed-eye amusement; everything seems to tickle him, even that which annoys or frustrates or disappoints him.... More >>
A Saw director gets musical in Repo! The Genetic Opera
By J. Hoberman
Thursday, November 06
Movie cults are born, not made. A youthful audience discovered Donnie Darko on its own, even as another demographic transformed The Sound of... More >>
We're pretty spoiled here in the metro area when it comes to film and film festivals. That goes double for all you adrenaline junkies and nature... More >>
On a double bill with L.A. Confidential, Chinatown or just about any film made after 1970 about institutional corruption in Los Angeles, Clint... More >>