Truth and beauty are the victors in this playful, autobiographical tale of a French couple fighting for their son’s life.
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The Grey: Wolves Near a Plane
Mountain man Liam Neeson battles a lupine conspiracy in this fitfully engrossing but logorrheic thriller
Albert Nobbs: Glenn Close’s Quiet Man
The Oscar-nominated actress bases her performance of the title character, a lady disguised as a man, on Charlie Chaplin.
This Man on a Ledge Is Pretty Wobbly
The rage against the economic machine that exploded forth from movie theaters in late 2011 (Margin Call, Tower Heist, In Time) continues in Man on a Ledge. In this slight, but crowd-pleasing caper, a blue-collar hero (Sam …
The Original Godzilla: New Criterion Release Celebrates the Greatest Monster Movie
Heavily re-edited and distributed in America ‘Godzilla, King of the Monsters,’ Criterion has revived Ishiro Honda’s original masterpiece, a complex and haunting monster morality play
Cloud Nothings’ Attack on Memory: An Aural Assault on the Heart
Singer-songwriter Dylan Baldi’s solo project has turned into a fully realized band. On its third album, Cloud Nothings has never felt more alive or more authentic.
Music Monday: Kathleen Edwards’ Voyageur
Kathleen Edwards has a penchant for bittersweet ballads. An earnest singer-songwriter, her voice is sweet and her her song subjects — from budding love to break-ups to “what am I doing with my life”-type explorations — …
Underworld Awakening: Me Somewhat Lycan
In this flashy fourth installment, Kate Beckinsale’s vampires and their rival werewolves battle a vicious new species: humans
Miss Bala: Beauty and the Beasts in a Mexican Drug War
Inspired by truly awful events, Gerardo Naranjo’s melodrama is as smart and thrilling as it is tragic
Red Tails: So Square It Can Barely Fly
Against the great odds of pervasive bigotry, a group of black pilots from the Tuskegee training program flew in World War II, shooting down German planes, bombing trains and trucks and even taking out a destroyer. They sacrificed …
Soderbergh’s Haywire: Good Workout, Not So Good Movie
MMA star Gina Carano has the kick of an action heroine but not the charisma of a movie star.
The Big Pink: Britain’s Overstuffed Pop Act
This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene.
With a pair of garishly overblown indie-pop anthems (“Velvet” and …
Joyful Noise: Is it Awfully Nice or Just Plain Awful?
Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton star in an aggressively uplifting musical that will leave you either snarling or singing—maybe both