Andrew O'Hehir

Critics' Picks: The dark prince of postwar Italy Critics' Picks: The dark prince of postwar Italy

Paolo Sorrentino's dazzling, daring "Il Divo" brings the cinematic bravado of Coppola and Scorsese back home
  • Lightning survivors tell (almost) all!

    A spectacular new film explores the physics and metaphysics of nature's most terrifying elemental force
  • DVDs you should have seen -- but didn't

    Let's dance! "Adventureland" and "Last Days of Disco" bring the coke, "Audition" brings the sexual terror
  • Home schooling: How we do it

    What's the curriculum for our twin 5-year-olds? Greek myths, costumed trips to the Met and Lightning McQueen
  • Kids' movies that aren't for kids: The top 10

    Will "Where the Wild Things Are" be a smash or a flop? Either way, it joins an august list of kidult classics
  • Rape, power and Polanski's "Chinatown"

    What are the real lessons in the filmmaker's neo-noir classic?
  • The British indie explosion

    Dazzling direction, Oscar-worthy performances and strong narratives -- the Brits are doing what the Yanks can't
  • "Afterschool": Death comes to YouTube

    Young director Antonio Campos' chilly, brilliant video-age mystery is one of the decade's breakout movies
  • Goys, God, dentistry and "A Serious Man"

    Joel and Ethan Coen on mixing Yiddish fable and suburban farce in their slippery, dark and brilliant new movie
  • Confessions of a home-schooler

    Call us crackpots, but our kids spend their days at beaches and museums, not in school
  • Early odds on the Oscar derby

    "Up," Clooney, "Precious," "Lovely Bones," "Nine" all leading contenders. Plus: Is indie dead? (Part 174)
  • John Malkovich faces "Disgrace"

    The screen icon on playing Coetzee's doomed hero, rewriting other people's scripts and making terrible movies
  • Let a thousand eco-documentaries bloom!

    A guide to help you choose between "Earth" and "Earth Days," and "War, Inc." and "Food, Inc."
  • The family who just said no

    "No Impact" couple Colin Beavan and Michelle Conlin on the new movie capturing their year without A/C, TV or T.P.
  • Will Ecuador's Indians bankrupt Chevron?

    Documentarian Joe Berlinger on the amazing Amazon pollution case in "Crude" -- and its link to the West Memphis 3
  • Just say "9"

    Often gorgeous, this Tim Burton-infused "stitchpunk" animation is a mixed-up quilt of hackneyed yarns
  • Who's to blame for the mortgage crisis?

    A chilling new investigative film spins a yarn of real-life tragedy -- and points the finger at Gramm and Greenspan
  • Mickey and Spidey do Hollywood

    The Disney-Marvel deal: Great news for faceless bean-counters -- and for Ant-Man! For movie fans, not so much
  • Eco-pirates of the Antarctic

    This thrilling sea adventure follows a ragtag activist group's highly illegal campaign against Japanese whalers
  • Art, commerce, Anna Wintour and "The September Issue"

    Director R.J. Cutler on Anna Wintour, Grace Coddington and the backstage fashion dramas of "The September Issue"
  • Nostalgia for white terrorism

    New films tackle the Baader-Meinhof gang and the IRA's dirty war. Cue the rock music and put on those tight jeans!
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