• Jumping the Broom / *** (PG-13)
    Thursday - 05/05/2011 - 05:30 PM

    "Jumping the Broom" (PG-13). A comedy involving a marriage between two old African-American families, one working-class from Brooklyn, one very, very rich and living on a priceless slice of Martha's Vineyard.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • The Princess of Montpensier / ***1/2 (Unrated)
    Thursday - 05/05/2011 - 05:01 AM

    "The Princess of Montpensier" (Unrated, 139 minutes). In France in 1562, a beautiful young princess (Melanie Thierry) is married off to a callow husband and yet remains the passionate obsession of two powerful men, and the great love of her tutor (Lambert Wilson).More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Forget Me Not / **1/2 (Unrated)
    Thursday - 04/28/2011 - 06:27 AM

    "Forget Me Not" (Unrated, 92 minutes). A young couple Meet Sorta Cute and end up sharing an all-night meander through London. They banter, they share, they separate and join up again, they even take a ride on the London Eye, and all the while I was wondering why "Before Sunrise" needed to be remade.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Incendies / ***1/2 (R)
    Thursday - 04/28/2011 - 06:26 AM

    "Incendies" (R, 130 minutes). After her death, a twin brother and sister are given letters from their mother to be delivered to the father they never knew an the brother they didn't know they had.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • I Am / ** (Unrated)
    Thursday - 04/21/2011 - 06:17 PM

    "I Am" (Unrated, 78 minutes). The successful director Tom Shadyak ("Ace Ventura: Pet Detective") suffered near-fatal injuries in a bike accident, had a moment of truth, sold his 17,000-square-foot mansion, and moved into a mobile home.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Water for Elephants / *** (PG-13)
    Thursday - 04/21/2011 - 06:17 PM

    "Water for Elephants" (PG-13, 122 minutes). Endearingly old-fashioned about a love story involving a beautiful bareback rider (Reese Witherspoon) and a kid (Robert Pattinson) who runs off to join the circus.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Potiche / *** (R)
    Friday - 04/15/2011 - 05:22 AM

    "Potiche" (R, 103 minutes). A whimsical comedy, based on a Parisian stage success, with Catherine Deneuve as the placid wife of a mean-tempered factory boss, and Gerard Depardieu as the local Communist mayor.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • The Conspirator / *** (PG-13)
    Friday - 04/15/2011 - 05:22 AM

    "The Conspirator" (PG-13, 121 minutes). Robert Redford's new film star Robin Wright, as the half-forgotten Mary Surratt, the first defendant tried after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. John Wilkes Booth and his conspirators, including her son, held meetings in the Washington boarding house she ran.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Scre4m / ** (Rated R)
    Thursday - 04/14/2011 - 06:58 PM

    "Scre4m" (R, 111 minutes). The ghost-faced psychopath has returned to the town of Woodsboro, and so has Sidney (Neve Campbell), promising her new best-seller. Will her niece Jill (Emma Roberts) be the next slashing victim?More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Super / ** (Unrated)
    Thursday - 04/14/2011 - 06:16 AM

    "Super" (Unrated, 96 minutes). Starts as a goofy comedy and derails into a startling exercise in insane mayhem. Rainn Wilson stars as an jilted husband who vows vengeance on evil in general and Kevin Bacon (who stole his wife) in particular.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Something Borrowed / ** (PG-13)
    Thursday - 05/05/2011 - 05:30 PM

    "Something Borrowed" (PG-13, 112 minutes). Kate Hudson plays Darcy, the lifelong best friend of the heroine, Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin). Blonde, rich and headstrong, as the film opens she's about to be married to Dex (Colin Egglesfield), who Rachel has had a crush on since law school.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Fast Five / *** (PG-13)
    Thursday - 04/28/2011 - 06:57 PM

    "Fast Five" (PG-13, 130 minutes). Justin Lin's third entry in the Fast and Furious franchise reunites Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Jordana Brewster, and adds Dwayne Johnson, creating a sort of reunion of reckless drivers.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Henry's Crime / ** (R)
    Thursday - 04/28/2011 - 06:27 AM

    "Henry's Crime" (R., 108 minutes). Curiously low-key for a screwball comedy. Keanu Reeves stars as a tollway collector who gets tricked into driving the getaway car for a bank robbery, ends up in jail, and decides since he did the time he might as well do the crime.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Cave of Forgotten Dreams / ***1/2 (Unrated)
    Thursday - 04/28/2011 - 06:26 AM

    "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" (Unrated, 90 minutes). Werner Herzog's spellbinding 3D documentary about the Chauvet Cave in France. where 32,000 years ago, above the Ardèche River in Southern France, humans created the oldest cave paintings known to exist.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • The Bang Bang Club / ** (Unrated)
    Thursday - 04/21/2011 - 06:17 PM

    "The Bang Bang Club" (Unrated, 109 minutes). Many of the photos of the bloody final months of apartheid were taken by four photographers who became famous as "The Bang Bang Club." Two of them won Pulitzers.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • In a Better World / **1/2 (R)
    Friday - 04/15/2011 - 05:22 AM

    "In a Better World" (R, 113 minutes). Parallel stories in Africa and Denmark make a point about those who are instinctively cruel and those who are instinctively kind. What could be two better movies fit together here uncomfortably like an obvious parable.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Putty Hill / **** (Unrated)
    Friday - 04/15/2011 - 05:22 AM

    In a way rarely seen, "Putty Hill" says all that can be said about a few days in the lives of its characters without seeming to say very much at all.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Atlas Shrugged / * (PG-13)
    Thursday - 04/14/2011 - 06:58 PM

    "Atlas Shrugged" (PG-13, 97 minutes). The most anticlimactic non-event since Geraldo Rivera broke into Al Capone's vault. A muddle of sterile dialogue that seems ripped steaming from the torrid pages of Investor's Business Daily.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • People: Sidney Lumet: In Memory
    Thursday - 04/14/2011 - 06:16 AM

    Sidney Lumet was one of the finest craftsmen and warmest humanitarians among all film directors. He was not only a great artist but a much-loved man. When the news of his death at 86 arrived on Saturday, it came as a shock, because he had continued so long to be so productive.

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  • Your Highness / * (R)
    Thursday - 04/14/2011 - 06:16 AM

    "Your Highness" (R, 102 minutes). A juvenile excrescence that feels like the work of 11-year-old boys in love with dungeons, dragons, warrior women, pot, boobs and four-letter words. A promising cast (James Franco, Natalie Portman, Danny McBride, Zooey Deschanel) in one of the worst films of the year, a witless farce set in medieval times and featuring a curious obsessions with adding obscenities to every sentence.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share