Film Reviews

Nine
A film director reaches a creative and personal crisis of epic proportions while balancing the...

Rendezvous with French Cinema
March 11-21, 2010 Alice Tully Hall, West 65th Street and Broadway Walter Reade Theater, 70...

2012 Movie
This 2012 movie is going to scare the crap out of everyone! Don't be surprised if a lot of beach...

NYFF 09 Roundup
This year’s New York Film Festival was dominated by names any long-time festgoer knows (Von...

Taking Woodstock
In Ang Lee’s film Taking Woodstock, perhaps the most remarkable thing the film captures is the...

Inglourious Basterds
In Nazi-occupied France, Lieutenant Aldo Raine organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in...

My Fuhrer
December 1944: the “total war” is as good as totally lost. Goebbels, however, isn’t willing...

Whatever Works
Boris Yellnikoff, the anti-hero of Whatever Works, spews the kind of sarcastic misanthropy we've...

Il Divo
Paolo Sorentino's hard-hitting Il Divo--a biopic of the slippery Italian politician Giulio...

Duplicity
After writing and directing the taut corporate crime thriller Michael Clayton starring George...

Everlasting Moments
In Jan Troell’s beautiful new film, Everlasting Moments, Maria Heiskanen discovers the...

Theater Of War
For Theater of War, John Walker filmed the rehearsals and interviewed the principals, and the...

The Reader
Adapting novels for the big screen is fraught with difficulty. Simply visualizing plot and...

The Films of Arnaud Desplechin
The IFC Center’s series Every Minute, Four Ideas: The Films of Arnaud Desplechin...

Andrzej Wajda Film Series
Polish director Andrzej Wajda–who turned 82 this year–has made films in many styles and...

Rachel Getting Married
Kym who has been in and out from rehab for the past 10 years returns home for the weekend for her...

Lakeview Terrace
Racial issues are not as black and white as what’s shown in Lakeview Terrace, which...

I Served the King of England
For his first film in 15 years, Czech director Jiri Menzel returns to a novel by Bohumil Hrabal,...

Wall-E
Who could ever have dreamed that video and sound clips from Hello, Dolly!, one of the most...

Get Smart
Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, creators of the classic 1960s TV series Get Smart, are credited as...

The Last Mistress
Based on Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly’s scandalous 19th century novel, The Last Mistress is...

Encounters at the End of the World
Encounters at the End of the World is the latest chapter in Werner Herzog’s...

Sex and the City
Carrie and the girls return in the big-screen version of Sex and the City, and the old...

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Harrison Ford's terrific combination of authority, charisma, and humor have made him the ideal...

Itâs a Free World...
It's a Free World....tackles another hard-hitting, timely subject that's typical...

Across the Universe
Have you ever gone to a barbeque with no condiments, buns, drinks, plates, forks, or drinks?...














