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Is there 'hope' in Hollywood?
Three controversial (and sure to be Oscar-nominated) films tackle race in the age of Obama
Buoyed by President Barack Obama's campaign slogan, many had hopes for change after his election.
By
PETER KEOUGH
| January 29, 2010
Oscar predictions 2010
With 10 Best Picture noms, is Oscar up in the air? Our critic predicts.
After years of shrinking audiences and low-grossing Best Picture nominees, the Academy this year is hedging its bets.
By
PETER KEOUGH
| January 29, 2010
Review: Legion
God is fed up with all the bullshit
What are angel wings made of? Why, bulletproof titanium with razor-sharp tips to slice open the entrails of sinners.
By
ZAK JASON
| January 27, 2010
Review: Mystery Team
Those meddling kids
Indie comedy has it tough in the marketplace, so though it's no fun to pan the first feature by the Derrick Comedy troupe, neither was it fun to watch Mystery Team .
By
BETSY SHERMAN
| January 26, 2010
Review: Extraordinary Measures
The business of who lives and who dies
Most parents would go to great lengths to save a child in peril, but would they find a cure for a terminal disease?
By
TOM MEEK
| January 27, 2010
Review: Tooth Fairy
It bites
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson dons a pink tutu and wings as Derek, a hockey player who's earned the nickname "The Tooth Fairy" for his knack for knocking out opposing players' bicuspids on the ice.
By
BRETT MICHEL
| January 26, 2010
Review: A Town Called Panic
Bilge from Belgium
This stop-motion comedy from Belgian filmmakers Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar is the anti– Fantastic Mr. Fox — its lack of visual and psychological nuance is, merci, quite deliberate.
By
BETSY SHERMAN
| January 20, 2010
Review: Crazy Heart
Country discomfort: Jeff Bridges can't be beat
Every great actor has at least one washed-up, alcoholic, award-winning-country-singer role in him. For Jeff Bridges, it's "Bad" Blake, a former C&W legend now reduced to playing bowling alleys and dive bars in tiny towns in the Southwest.
By
PETER KEOUGH
| January 26, 2010
Review: The White Ribbon
Children of the götterdämmerung: Shades of gray in Michael Haneke's White Ribbon
The White Ribbon starts with a black screen and an old man's voice (Ernst Jacobi, who played Hitler in Jan Troell's Hamsun and in a BBC mini-series) relating a series of mysterious accidents and crimes that occurred in the German village where he was a schoolteacher the year before the outbreak of World War I.
By
PETER KEOUGH
| January 13, 2010
Review: The Lovely Bones
This Salmon won't spawn
When it comes to immortality and the afterlife, movies tend to get sticky.
By
PETER KEOUGH
| January 13, 2010
Review: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Ledger-demain: Gilliam leaves nothing to the Imaginarium
Few filmmakers have suffered from the life-imitates-art phenomenon as has Terry Gilliam.
By
PETER KEOUGH
| January 11, 2010
Review: Youth In Revolt
Michael Cera hardly revolutionary
Juno continues to poison American independent cinema.
By
PETER KEOUGH
| January 06, 2010
Review: In Search of Beethoven
Deaf jam
Phil Grabsky's exhaustive documentary doesn't exactly dispel any stereotypes about Beethoven's being a shaggy genius prone to rages.
By
SHAULA CLARK
| January 06, 2010
Review: Daybreakers
Vampires, weakened
For evidence of the breakdown of the capitalist system, look no farther than the proliferation of vampire and zombie movies.
By
PETER KEOUGH
| January 06, 2010
Lite at the end of the tunnel?
Fun and games in post-apocalyptic Hollywood
If you had enough of the end of the world with 2012 , you might be relieved when it comes to 2010.
By
PETER KEOUGH
| January 04, 2010
Review: It's Complicated
Indeed it is
It's complicated, and so are my feelings about Nancy Meyer's predictable and overlong boomer-bait rom-com.
By
MIKE MILIARD
| December 22, 2009
Review: Nine
Rob Marshall continues his assault on good taste
It doesn't get much farther from human experience than this: an adaptation of a Broadway production adapting a film ( 8-1/2 ) about a filmmaker who imagines making a film.
By
PETER KEOUGH
| December 22, 2009
Review: Broken Embraces [Los Abrazos Rotos]
Broken promises: Pedro Almodóvar's open Embraces
No filmmaker generates narrative like Pedro Almodóvar. Five minutes into Broken Embraces and he's got half a dozen potential storylines spinning.
By
PETER KEOUGH
| December 22, 2009
Review: Sherlock Holmes
Boys will be boys
In its own way an ideal holiday blockbuster for the moderately educated, the new light-footed overhaul of Sherlock Holmes is three parts self-satisfied mixer to one part hard storytelling, and if anything, the film's popular trailers should have deterred you from expecting strong drink.
By
MICHAEL ATKINSON
| December 22, 2009
2009: The year in movies
Men behaving badly
As I looked over my list of the best movies of 2009, it suddenly struck me: where are all the women on screen?
By
PETER KEOUGH
| December 28, 2009
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