AltWeeklies Wire
Lunar Eclipsenew
In the Shadow of the Moon celebrates the triumphs of the American space program, but leaves out some crucial background.
Blasfilmersnew
The Ten is an ostensible comedy, ostensibly based on the Ten Commandments. There's not really a sustained laugh in the whole movie.
Tags: David Wain, The Ten
'No End in Sight': Heckuva Job, Bushienew
Charles Ferguson gives us a despairing documentary about disastrous mismanagement.
Tags: Charles Ferguson, No End in Sight
'Superbad': Nerd Mentalitynew
Three young men scheme their way toward social acceptance, popularity and maybe even female companionship.
Tags: Greg Mottola, Superbad
'Moliere': Acting Classesnew
Laurent Tirard's new romantic comedy endeavors to imagine the formative years in Moliere's life the way John Madden's Shakespeare in Love treated the great English bard in his youth.
Tags: Laurent Tirard, Moliere
'Golden Door': The Dream of Americanew
Simply different, and often memorably beautiful -- moviegoers who prefer narrative straightforwardness and clarity will likely be dissatisfied while fans of the visual arts may come away enthralled.
Tags: Emanuele Crialese, Golden Door
Inside Jokenew
The hilarious new film, The Aristocrats, proves, our hesitance to offend sometimes robs humor of its vitality.
Tags: Paul Provenza, The Aristocrats
The Life Lethargicnew
As intriguing as Jim Jarmusch's latest film, Broken Flowers, might be, it nevertheless feels like something we've all seen too many times before.
Tags: Broken Flowers, Jim Jarmusch
State of Fearnew
Kate Hudson and a supporting cast of stereotypes sleepwalk through The Skeleton Key as British director Iain Softley continues the time-honored tradition of turning Louisiana into a sticky, icky gumbo of cliches.
Tags: Iain Softley, The Skeleton Key
Irreconcilable Similaritiesnew
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie face off nicely in Doug Liman's latest, which (sometimes clumsily) tries to juggle the genres of romantic comedy and action-adventure with little atonal moments of dramatic wistfulness.
Tags: Doug Liman, Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Image Makernew
With his feature-film debut, fashion/glamour photographer and video director David LaChapelle takes a look at a subculture that, like the vogue-ing drag queens of "Paris Is Burning," blossoms out of desperation and a need for survival.
Tags: David LaChapelle, Rize
Pet Soundsnew
No matter how hard Unleashed director Louis Letterier and star Jet Li try, they're working with atonal material, and can't have it both ways.
Tags: Louis Leterrier, Unleashed
Culture Clashnew
Ousmane Sembene deftly tackles a squeamish subject with his topical film, Moolaade.
Tags: Moolaadé, Ousmane Sembene
Dance Fevernew
Stephen Chow's love of cinema floods the scenes of Kung Fu Hustle like so many kicks and chops, moving almost chronologically through a history of not only martial-arts movies but movies in general.
Tags: Stephen Chow, Kung Fu Hustle
Forest for the Treesnew
Through all of its obvious symbolism, thinly sketched characters, portentous filmmaking technique and vague narrative, writer-director Nicole Kassell's The Woodsman remains an affecting piece of work.
Tags: Nicole Kassell, The Woodsman
