The Movie Page
- "Speed Racer"
- You know a movie's heading nowhere fast when even its monkey doesn't make you laugh
What Happens in Vegas- This Ashton Kutcher-Cameron Diaz romantic comedy needs fewer sunsets and more lap dances and tequila shooters
Double shot of gloom for indie fans- Leading film-blogger Glenn Kenny is out at Premiere; Warner Bros. to fold its Picturehouse and Warner Independent subsidiaries.
- Paul H-O on "Guest of Cindy Sherman"
- Building a road from Bollywood to dullsville
- How can a gorgeous-looking movie about an adulterous interracial affair in 1930s India be so boring? Plus: The amazing Juliet Stevenson, sex symbol at age 51
- A star is born (at age 51)
- As a married woman meeting her ex-lover 25 years later, Juliet Stevenson transforms a Lifetime-level middle-aged rom-com into delirious comic magic
- The Iraq movie we've been waiting for
- Nick Broomfield's pulse-pounding "Battle for Haditha" turns the infamous 2005 civilian massacre into a haunting classic about the inhumanity of war
- Indie box office: "Mister Lonely" finds friends
- Harmony Korine's latest thrives in the shadow of "Iron Man," but this year's indie failures include some of the year's best films
- 10 to watch from Tribeca
- A hot Swedish girlfriend (who's undead), a Spanish math thriller, getting high with Ben Kingsley and the rest of the best from NYC's spring fest
Che anything- The filmmakers behind "Chevolution" explain how Che Guevara's face ended up on all those T-shirts, posters, beer bottles and bikini bottoms
- Marilyn, Michael and the flying nuns
- Ex-wunderkind Harmony Korine is back -- with his sweetest, saddest, loveliest movie yet. Plus: A haunting "intersex" Gothic from Argentina
- The girl who's also a boy
- A nifty Gothic fable about an intersex teen in a desolate coastal town is among the year's most striking debuts
I dated Cindy Sherman ...- And all I got was this documentary. Paul H-O on his film about the iconic photographer and the perils of being an art world sidekick
Made of Honor- This formulaic romantic comedy starring Patrick "McDreamy" Dempsey leaves us McCold
Iron Man- Robert Downey Jr. gives this inventive superhero blockbuster its warm, glowing heart -- and makes it soar
- Three films about poverty, murder and Coca-Cola
- Take a rattle-trap road trip with a trio of Romanian losers, a haunting cruise "Up the Yangtze" and a silky slide into a Hitchcock-lite thriller
- No "Sex" on the beach at Cannes
- Fernando Meirelles' "Blindness," starring Julianne Moore, to open Cannes fest, with Barry Levinson's "What Just Happened?" as the closer.
- He conquered the World Trade Center
- "Man on Wire" and its daredevil star thrill Tribeca, but Mamet's "Redbelt" is a jiu-jitsu pratfall. Plus: Is Brecht still relevant?
- Guillermo del Toro to make "Hobbit" films: Bleah!
- A director who hates Tolkien, enslaved in New Zealand by a latter-day George Lucas. Whose brilliant idea was this?
Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay- This good-natured sequel might not be as endearing as the original, but it's still much more than another stoner comedy
Deception- It's bad enough that this Ewan McGregor and Hugh Jackman thriller is improbable. But why does it have to look so awful?
- Interrogating Abu Ghraib
- Errol Morris on his film "Standard Operating Procedure," why Lynndie England and others took photographs, and how the infamous images conceal as much as they reveal (podcast and video)
- Trash-meister strikes back!
- Reviled German director of "BloodRayne" reneges on promise to quit, pronounces self "only genius in the whole fucking business"
- What's hot (and not) at Tribeca
- Tribeca preview: Glitzy premieres grab the headlines, but New York's downsized spring fest is all about the strange, daring smaller movies
- Indy, Clint and Che hit the Côte d'Azur
- Eastwood's "Changeling" and Soderbergh's four-hour "Che" top an impressive Eurocentric lineup at 61st Cannes festival
Baby Mama- Tina Fey and Amy Poehler make a dynamite duo, but this spoof of our child-centric culture doesn't go as far as it could
- Charlie Wilson's unfinished war
- The legendary Texas congressman talks about his secret 1980s Afghan war (and its blowback), the Obama campaign and being better-looking than Tom Hanks
DVD Releases
- The Great Debaters (5/13)
- Untraceable (5/13)
- Mad Money (5/13)
- Youth Without Youth (5/13)
- Rent DVDs with Netflix
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"Speed Racer"
By Stephanie Zacharek -
A star is born (at age 51)
By Andrew O'Hehir -
"What Happens in Vegas"
By Mary Elizabeth WIlliams -
The Iraq movie we've been waiting for
By Andrew O'Hehir -
Bateman: What Bill and Chelsea were really thinking
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