POSTED // Feb 4,2011 - In the opening scene of writer/director Mike Leigh’s subtly heartbreaking ensemble drama Another Year, a tight-faced, 50-something woman named Janet ...

POSTED // Jan 28,2011 - A stalwart veteran of late-night basic cable, the 1972 Charles Bronson hit-man vehicle The Mechanic remains in the top tier of that era’s B-movies ...

POSTED // Jan 20,2011 - The opening minutes of All Good Things suggest that director Andrew Jarecki might be looking for common ground ...

POSTED // Jan 14,2011 - Here’s the complicated contradiction currently exemplified by Rabbit Hole: Grief is one of the easiest subjects around which to structure a drama ...

POSTED // Jan 14,2011 - Serious devotees of The Green Hornet—he of the dark, grim 1930s radio show—are going to howl. The rest of us can enjoy The Green Hornet, Seth Rogen-style ...

POSTED // Jan 7,2011 - Oh, how silly, the movie about the lady country-music superstar, with Gwyneth Paltrow as the Faith Trisha LeAnn Shania mashup! Hey, cute: She meets the boy-toy up-and-comer who might become her lover

POSTED // Jan 7,2011 - Everyone makes year-end lists of the best or worst movies. But what about the most aggressively nondescript movies of 2010?

POSTED // Dec 31,2010 - It seemed that 2010 was the year of “but did it really happen that way?” at the movies. Not surprisingly, it was a question that usually missed the point entirely ...

POSTED // Dec 29,2010 - Had I been paying attention to promotional materials, and realized beforehand that Made in Dagenham was directed by Nigel Cole ...

POSTED // Dec 23,2010 - Don’t hate Colin Firth just because he’s playing a real person who overcomes an obstacle in The King’s Speech. But don’t love him just for that reason, either ...