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Cool Catalans

Three years ago Woody Allen left New York for London and made his first good movie in a decade, Match Point. He promptly went stale...

Over a Barrel

A film with an interesting subject rather than an interesting film, Bottle Shock dramatizes the event known in wine circles as the Judgment of...

Supergrass

Marijuana makes you mellow, so movies about people who smoke lots of marijuana usually try to be mellow. Not Pineapple Express; it's the opposite of...

Failed States

Our country's chaotic political climate has given birth to all sorts of monsters at the movie theater - look no further than the Joker's...

High 90s

"Do you ever feel like a fuck-up?" So inquires recent high-school grad Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) of his psychiatrist, Dr. Jeffrey Squires (Ben Kingsley). It's...

Move On

I always found ABBA's melancholy ballads more interesting than their better-known disco-influenced hits, but I find those latter songs pleasant enough in small doses. String...

Out of the House

Is it true? Did Talladega Nights really come out only two summers ago? It seems like ages, mainly because Will Ferrell has starred in...

Funny Games

When Heath Ledger is on screen during The Dark Knight, you can't look anywhere else. Part of this is because the uncategorizable Australian actor died...

Monkey Wrench

The animated kids' movie out this week, Space Chimps, is being released simultaneously with a tied-in video game. Not unusual, but it's also the latest...

The Descent

Cinematic inventors and pioneers were trying to make their medium three-dimensional as far back as the 1890s, but it wasn't until 1952 that Hollywood...