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'Cloverfield' Exploits National Tragedynew

The game in Cloverfield is to exploit media-memory of 9/11 and encourage moviegoers who were probably in grade school, and not quite senescent at the time, to pretend to relive that terror -- while feeling safely nostalgic.

New York Press | Armond White | 01-24-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Cloverfield, Matt Reeves

'The Air I Breathe': Breathless Cyclenew

How many strangely paired actors does it take to ruin a movie?

New York Press | Eric Kohn | 01-24-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Jieho Lee, The Air I Breathe

'4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days': There Will Be Abortionnew

Romanian filmmakers haven’t reinvented realism, but most American film critics are too afraid to disagree.

New York Press | Armond White | 01-24-2008 | Reviews

Tags: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Cristian Mungiu

Monster Movie Magicnew

Investigating the J.J. Abrams ploy behind Cloverfield.

New York Press | Eric Kohn | 01-17-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Cloverfield, Matt Reeves

Vagina Dentatanew

Indie horror grows hair on its back, teeth in its vag.

New York Press | Eric Kohn | 01-17-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Mitchell Lichtenstein, Teeth

Holy Rollin' in the Aislesnew

David E. Talbert explores the unholiness of contemporary Black Americans with comedy.

New York Press | Armond White | 01-17-2008 | Reviews

Tags: David E. Talbert, First Sunday

Herione Chicnew

Chick flicks remain the most frightening film genre of them all.

New York Press | Armond White | 01-17-2008 | Reviews

Tags: 27 Dresses, Anne Fletcher

A Misanthropic Valentinenew

Woody Allen's slow decline from an inspired modern comic to a pretend expert on homicide.

New York Press | Armond White | 01-17-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Woody Allen, Cassandra's Dream

The Need for New Scare Tacticsnew

Yet another boring J-horror translation proves we don't do horror right.

New York Press | Eric Kohn | 01-10-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Eric Valette, One Missed Call

Korean Fusionnew

Though specific to his country's cultural situation, Korean director Hong Sang-soo's Woman on the Beach offers flavors of quarterlife angst and romantic insecurity for which American audiences clearly have an insatiable appetite.

New York Press | Benjamin Sutton | 01-10-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Hong Sang-soo, Women on the Beach

No Country for Unconscious Peoplenew

John Sayles puts the imaginative life of African-Americans on the screen better than most.

New York Press | Armond White | 01-10-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Honeydripper, John Sayles

Inside the Mind of a Killernew

Factual consistency predicates the narrative in The Killing of John Lennon, but Andrew Piddington's re-creation of Lennon assassin Mark David Chapman's descent into murderous insanity is hardly a procedural investigation into psychological disarray.

New York Press | Eric Kohn | 01-03-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Andrew Piddington, The Killing of John Lennon