Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens shake beaucoup booty in outlaw auteur Harmony Korine’s lurid parody-tribute to MTV mindlessness
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Cat Power Shines on Sun
Singer Chan Marshall returns to glory on her ninth album, in stores now
Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep: Old Radicals Die Hard
That icon of movie liberalism rounds up some fine old stars—Julie Christie, Susan Sarandon, Nick Nolte—for a thriller about veterans of the Weather Underground
The Words: Oh What a Tangled Web They Weave
The movie features three interwoven stories of writers—played by Bradley Cooper, Dennis Quaid and Ben Barnes—and yet none of them manage to make the story convincing
Bachelorette: Something Borrowed, Something New
A top notch Kirsten Dunst leads the pack of bridesmaids behaving badly in this gleeful but uneven female take on ‘The Hangover’
Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell: Secrets and Lies
The Canadian actress-director probes the mysteries of her family history in the most fulfilling, devastating work at this year’s Venice Film Festival
The xx Take Risks, Succeed on Coexist
The band’s much-anticipated sophomore album ‘Coexist’ debuts in the U.S. on Sept. 11
Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder: Rapturous, Forbidding, Wondrous
Earning boos and bravos at Venice, this daunting experiment is also a rapturous photo essay on carnal and spiritual love
Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master: There Will Be Boredom
Don’t believe the hype that this is a Scientology exposé. The director of ‘There Will Be Blood’ is just replaying his old father-son fixation, with indifferent results
Bad 25: Spike Lee’s Thrilling Tribute to the Michael Jackson Album
A quarter-century to the day after its release, Lee lays out the soul and the science behind the King of Pop’s followup to ‘Thriller’
Orlando Bloom in The Good Doctor: Malpractice Makes Perfect
The ex-heartthrob of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ is back as the kind of physician you might not want to entrust your gorgeous daughter to
The Iceman: A Killer Role for Michael Shannon
Your favorite mild-mannered psychopath scores big at Venice as a real-life contract killer who boasted of more than 100 hits for the Jersey mob
Lawless: Tom Hardy as the Bane of the Revenuers
The Batman villain leads a terrific cast in this much-too-studied story of the Prohibition era’s Virginia Moonshine Wars