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In the drama "I've Loved You So Long," Kristin Scott Thomas's furious honesty rules out easy, unearned redemption.
How lovely the American high school experience might be if it offered even a smidgen of the euphoria in "High School Musical 3: Senior Year."
It would take a superhuman capacity for cynicism to resist the radiant optimism of the Missoula Children's Theater players and the unabashed pep of this joyful portrait.
Watching "The Women," you wait in vain for a moment of snappy repartee, of fresh emotion, of grace or charm or pathos. You wait, by the way, for a very long time.
"Hamlet 2" belongs to the school of free-for-all satiric farce whose creators ball up wads of ideas, apply chewing gum and hurl them against the wall to see what sticks.
"Swing Vote" is one of the most surprising, politically suggestive movies to come out of Hollywood this year.
Journalism is all about having the courage to write the truth even if it will get you mocked by your relatives and co-workers, so here goes: "Space Chimps" is hilarious.
You can have a perfectly nice time watching this spirited adaptation of the popular stage musical and, once the hangover wears off, acknowledge just how bad it is.
Peter Askin's stirring documentary "Trumbo" gives you reasons to cheer but also to weep.
"Redbelt" is a satisfying, unexpectedly involving B-movie that owes as much to old Hollywood as to Greek tragedy.
In "In Bruges," Brendan Gleeson, Colin Farrell and Ralph Fiennes have great fun rummaging around inside Martin McDonagh's modest bag of tricks.
"Sweeney Todd" is as much a horror film as a musical. It is also something close to a masterpiece.
Tamara Jenkins's "The Savages" is a beautifully nuanced tragicomedy about two floundering souls.
Anyone too busy during the last couple of decades to make it to the Off Broadway production that inspired "Tony N' Tina's Wedding" can relax: the film version is now here.
Tamara Jenkins's "The Savages" is a beautifully nuanced tragicomedy about two floundering souls.
A crepuscular glow suffuses Andrew Wagner's intelligent, careful adaptation of a near-perfect novel by Brian Morton.
Filmed in real time during the freezing winter of 2000, "Yiddish Theater: A Love Story" tracks eight days in the failing life of the Yiddish Public Theater.
"The Life of Reilly" is built around "Save It for the Stage," a one-man stage show by Charles Nelson Reilly, a showbiz gadfly and Tony Award-winning theater director.
In "Naked Boys Singing!" 10 grown men (including one natural redhead) go full monty while belting out show tunes and high-kicking like muscular Rockettes.
In the remake of "Sleuth," what was once insignificant is now insufferable.
What happens when idealism becomes power? That question is the driving force of Jeremy Kagan's inert yet strangely compelling film "Golda's Balcony."
Somewhere around its midpoint, "Across the Universe" captured my heart, and I realized that falling in love with a movie is like falling in love with another person.
There is more raw vitality pumping through "Romance & Cigarettes" than in a dozen perky high school musicals.
"Balls of Fury" is raunchier and somewhat more imaginative than "Hot Rod," and it will be must viewing for Christopher Walken completists.
