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Emmanuelle Riva plays piano in her home before illness strikes in Amour.

Amour, Quartet: Old Wave

Movies tend to neglect seniors as subjects. This is neither a recent phenomenon, nor is it a Hollywood thing. Filmmakers and audiences everywhere have...

Django Unchained Toys Sell For Big Money On MLK Day

Today, some Americans celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day and honor the nation's greatest civil rights leader. Others...not so much. Take eBay bidders for instance. Django Unchained...
Mama opens Friday.

Film Shorts

OPENING: Mama (PG-13) Jessica Chastain stars in this horror flick as a woman whose husband (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) takes in his two feral nieces (Megan Charpentier...
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Johnny Knoxville handle a big-ass gun in The Last Stand.

Last Stand: Defending the Border

With the release of The Last Stand this week, a Korean wave finally reaches our shores. Much the way a trio of talented and...
The artist's "Ophelia" on display in "Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters."

Gregory Crewdson: Motionless Pictures

For whatever reason, 2012 has yielded a bumper crop of documentary films about prominent artists: Marina Abramovic, Ai Weiwei, and Gerhard Richter have all...

The Greatest Movies of All Time*

*as decided by me and 64 other film critics Three months ago, British film blogger Iain Stott asked me and other movie critics from around...

The Best Lead Performances of 2012

In some years, the men get the lion’s share of the great leading roles, but in 2012, it was the women who did the...

Film Shorts

OPENING: A Haunted House (R) Marlon Wayans stars in and co-writes this parody of found-footage horror movies. Also with Essence Atkins, Marlene Forte, David Koechner,...
Jessica Chastain awaits confirmation of bin Laden’s death in Zero Dark Thirty.

Zero Dark Thirty: Tortured Logic

OK, everyone. Here it is, the movie where Osama bin Laden bites the big one. And yeah, it’s also topping lots of film critics’...

Gangster Squad: Old Hats

As you’ve probably heard, Gangster Squad was supposed to arrive in theaters last September, but it was also supposed to include a scene (visible...