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Ricki Road

A typical entry with an atypical provenance, Ricki and the Flash is an attempt by Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme and screenwriter Diablo Cody to...

The Fort Worth Producer Behind “Jobs”

Jobs starts playing in a movie theater near you, and even though I didn't think much of the film, the sheer willpower of Fort...

Odds and Ends

I watched even more movies this year (more than 300!) than usual, which afforded me more opportunities to see weird and wacky smaller films....

The Best Sports Films of 2009

I was trying to figure out whether I had enough material to do this list, and then Bill Simmons beat me to the punch....
Cymbeline.

Death on the Wheel

I can’t get enough of Shakespeare’s so-called “problem plays” like Measure for Measure, The Winter’s Tale, and Cymbeline, and I’m always eager to see...

Half-Baked Alaska

In a fitful and fitfully effective sidelight as a director, Sean Penn has been trying to make Jon Krakauer's book Into the Wild into...

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OPENING: Cat Run (R) John Stockwell’s comic thriller is about two bumbling detectives (Scott Mechlowicz and Alphonso McAuley) hired to protect a high-priced escort (Paz...

Avengers: Hammer and SHIELD

Joss Whedon looks poised to become the king of American pop culture, and I don’t mind it one bit. Having already established himself as...

Holiday Movie Preview

It’s the young people who are keeping movie theaters afloat these days. How else to explain the recent box-office numbers? We’ve seen Black Adam and...

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Opening Mad Max: Fury Road (R) The latest installment of George Miller’s postapocalyptic car chase saga stars Tom Hardy as a man running from a...