Saturday, May 17, 2008
The Lifetime adaptation of Sue Silverman’s memoir, Love Sick, provides a mostly thoughtful rendering of difficult subjects
By Beth Harrington
Chan Marshall and Norah Jones make acting debuts in My Blueberry Nights
By Mengly Taing
The Babysitters lies where Mean Girls meets Show Girls, and it isn’t pretty
By Alexa Weibel
Snow Angels comes off as a dreamy slice of rural living — until it’s interrupted with flashes of violence and suppressed, near-biblical ire
By Ling Ma
Married Life attempts to make a social commentary, but goes sour
By Melissa Silvestri
An offbeat fairy tale about an ugly duckling, Penelope's tale of a pig-nosed heiress may charm younger audiences but fails to satiate
By Alexa Weibel
The story of Anne and The Other Boleyn Girl
By Kelly Skinner
Diego Luna plays a Michael Jackson impersonator in Mister Lonely
By Jonathan Reiss
Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind takes DIY directing to Hollywood
By Melissa Silvestri
Diary of the Dead a dull zombie apocalypse
By Beth Capper
Graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi brings Persepolis to life on the big screen
By Alexa Weibel
P.T. Anderson and Daniel Day Lewis wow audiences with There Will Be Blood
By Beth Capper
‘The Orphanage’ a mediocre mélange of ‘Pan's Labyrinth’ and ‘The Devil's Backbone’
By Beth Capper
‘Starting Out in the Evening’ paints a grim but moving portrait of human relationships
By Beth Capper
Though it presents itself as hip and counterculture, Juno sends an alarmingly mainstream message
By Beth Capper
The comix artist animates the Iran revolution with the film version of her award-winning book, Persepolis
By Beth Capper
The Future is Unwritten, Julian Temple’s tribute to Joe Strummer, traverses the link between the man and the legend
By Sheba White
Anton Corbijn takes on the life of Ian Curtis in Control
By Mairead Case
The Coen brothers' latest and greatest is about a place that really is No Country for Old Men — or anyone else for that matter
By Beth Capper
Ron Livingston journeys through the child sex trade in Holly
By Mengly Taing
Writer/director Noah Baumbach, Nicole Kidman, and Jennifer Jason Leigh exorcise their demons in Margot at the Wedding
By Amy Westervelt
The fall season’s pilot crop begs the question: What happened to ‘character’ in ‘characterization’?
By Catherine Disabato
Ryan Gosling finds a lady friend in Lars and the Real Girl
By Melissa Silvestri
Dark Meat finds itself busless and penniless on the Great Plains
By Emily Armond
Free Gold! (We Are Free)
By Camella Lobo
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