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Let the Sun In: Two wildly different Sundance favorites come to town.
Every year, scores of aspiring and struggling filmmakers bring their labors of love to the Sundance Film Festival. The luckiest ones leave Park City, Utah, with two kinds of prizes.... read on» -
Radical Schooling: An American operative gets entangled with some Islamic jihadists in Traitor.
Once we get past the obvious similarities to the Bourne franchise– rogue American ex-operative being chased all over the globe by CIA/FBI spooks that think he’s a terrorist– Traitor simmers... read on» -
False Document: Nanette Burstein’s American Teen doesn’t ring true.
Has reality TV ruined the movie documentary? Watching American Teen makes one wonder. Nanette Burstein’s new documentary was supposed to conjure the “types” of high school characters from 1985’s The... read on» -
Career Encore: The Office’s Rainn Wilson gets a second chance to be a drummer in The Rocker.
In everyone’s life, there comes a time when– for the sake of his sanity and long-term happiness– he must come to terms with his place in the world. The high... read on» -
Exchange Student: Woody Allen takes his affairs abroad again in Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
It used to be that you couldn’t get Woody Allen out of New York at gunpoint. For decades, New York City seemed to be Allen’s muse and inspiration even more... read on» -
Silly Salvo: Ben Stiller abandons subtle satire for broad gags in Tropic Thunder.
Ben Stiller is not a subtle guy. On his short-lived, self-titled Fox comedy series in 1992, Stiller oversaw some terrific satire, but the style was often broad. In the decade... read on» -
A Vine Romance: Bottle Shock’s filmmakers Randall Miller and Jody Savin pour it on.
When father-and-son winery owners Jim and Bo Barrett start to argue, they climb into a homemade boxing ring built in the dirt near their rows of vines. At least, the... read on» -
Estate Tax: In this new version of Brideshead Revisited, times takes its toll on the film’s two protagonists.
I’m not sure that Evelyn Waugh, a Roman Catholic convert, would have endorsed this accomplished adaptation of his 1945 novel about the pre-World War II chasmic divides of class and... read on» -
High Times: Pineapple Express takes a funny but unfocused stroll through 1970s cinema.
Like Ric Ocasek and Paulina Porizkova, the match just did not compute. Screenwriters Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg were part of the Judd Apatow comedy stable, the guys behind the... read on»
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