Downton Abbey’s Lady Sybil portrays anything but a lady in this coming of age tale.
Reviews
Beauty and the Beast in 3-D: Still an Enchantment
Disney’s 1991 animated feature retains its lilt, glow and magic
Mark Wahlberg and Mark Wahlberg’s Muscles Are On a Boat in Contraband
The jacked actor stars in this one-last-heist flick with a fresh setting: smuggling via cargo ships.
Is Ani DiFranco’s Which Side Are You On? an OWS Rallying Cry?
To understand Ani DiFranco’s work as it stands now, it helps to know where she lives. The wandering feminist folkie veteran (we can call her that now, right?) has made her home in New Orleans over the past decade or so, and …
The Best DVD of the Year: Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du Cinema
A quarter-century after the French director began it, his grand film essay on movies is finally available in America
Let’s Go Eat the Factory: Guided by Voices’ Lo-Fi Reunion
Robert Pollard and his band have reunited to release a charming album full of distorted, guitar-driven indie rock.
A Separation: How about an Oscar for This Fascinating Iranian Drama?
Director Asghar Farhadi shows how, even in the nicest families, things can go horribly wrong
Meryl as Maggie in The Iron Lady: A Stunt of Genius
With the help of some great makeup, Streep slips into Thatcher’s skin and finds the British PM’s mettle as well as her metal
Wenders’ Pina: Dance Crazy
One icon of German modernism pays thrilling tribute to another in Wenders’ 3-D doc on the late Pina Bauch’s Wuppertal Dance Theater Company
The Weeknd’s Echoes of Silence: A Third Mixtape, a Third Success
Despite not yet releasing a proper album, Abel Tesfaye has crafted some of this year’s most compelling and captivating music.
Pariah: Coming Out and Coming of Age
The year’s best coming-of-age film has slipped in just under the wire. Pariah, which opens this week with a limited release geared towards awards season, opens in a lesbian club where shy Brooklyn teenager Alike (Adepero Oduye) …
War Horse: Spielberg’s Searing, Splendid Christmas Gift
How many Steven Spielbergs are there, anyway? One Spielberg released a 3-D animated comedy yesterday: The Adventures of Tintin. Another has an emotionally urgent live-action epic opening Christmas day: War Horse, the story of a …
Cameron Crowe’s We Bought a Zoo is Pure Cornography
Star Matt Damon shines bright, but all else in blight, in this egregiously dewy family drama