This intimate indie is one of the loveliest romances of the year
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I Don’t Know How She Does It, but Bagels Trump Kegels
Sarah Jessica Parker is a harried yet glamorous mother in this adaptation of Allison Pearson’s best seller
Warrior: The Pugilists Are Restless
Compelling acting puts up a fight against some plausibility issues in this story of a mixed-martial-arts family feud
Soderbergh’s Contagion: Don’t Touch Gwyneth Paltrow!
With Contagion, the real fear comes when you leave the theater. The film dramatizes, with brisk ruthlessness, the dangers of touching anyone who may be infected or anything he or she may have touched
Midnight in Paris. And 2 a.m. And 4 a.m.
Serge Gainsbourg comes back to life in a dreamy biopic
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy Is a Better Idea than You’d Think
It’s kind of like ‘The Big Chill’, without the funeral, clothes or ethical restraint
Detective Dee: A Masterpiece from a Hong Kong Cinema Swami
Tsui Hark’s latest is an action spectacle, a tender-tragic love story and has enough deadly political scheming to fill a Gaddafi playbook
The Debt: The Spy and the Gynecologist
This bracing political thriller is a welcome tonic for the end of a sluggish summer at the movies
Higher Ground: When God Doesn’t Talk Back
Vera Farmiga goes looking for heaven in her directorial debut
Our Idiot Brother: Paul Rudd on a Couch-Crash Course
Finally, an offbeat summer comedy that’s more amiable than outrageous
One Day: A Page Turner Becomes a Head Scratcher
Even with cute stars Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess, this adaptation of David Nicholls’ best-selling novel lacks the punch of its source material
Conan the Barbarian: That’s Sado-tainment!
This grimy, gruesome revenge tale has a body count in the mid-trillions and plenty of things to make you go eww
Amigo: John Sayles’ Latest Declaration of Indie-pendence
Pushing Vietnam and Iraq analogies in depicting the U.S. occupation of the Philippines a century ago, the veteran filmmaker gets stuck in the Big Muddy of his grand ambitions