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How to turn a low-budget horror indie into a hit? Add Steven Spielberg, Twitter -- and scare the pants off people
By Mary Elizabeth Williams
October 16, 2009
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A heart-stopping media spectacle ends as 6-year-old Falcon Heene is found safe. But what were we watching, and why?
By Heather Havrilesky
October 15, 2009
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Why has Courteney Cox's painfully manic midlife-crisis sitcom been embraced by fans and critics?
By Heather Havrilesky
October 14, 2009
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Conservatives may be mangling the Scriptures, but the Mountain Goats' musical take on the Good Book is inspired
By Judy Berman
October 14, 2009
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"Fargo" vs. "Miller's Crossing"? "No Country" vs. "Lebowski"? We put the film geek question to a panel of our faves
Compiled by Jed Lipinski
October 14, 2009
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A new collection of vintage educational shorts offers a peek into the anxieties and hopes of earlier generations
By Tommy Wallach
October 12, 2009
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Drop the soap! These abusive but self-doubting lotharios are only getting funnier with age
By Heather Havrilesky
October 11, 2009
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Carey Mulligan shines as a teenager exploring the minefield of love -- and sex -- in a film written by Nick Hornby
By Stephanie Zacharek
October 9, 2009
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Burning relaxers, expensive extensions, African-American identity: Chris Rock covers it all, and keeps us laughing
By Stephanie Zacharek
October 9, 2009
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Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau costar in a flaccid comedy about couples desperately trying to keep it together
By Stephanie Zacharek
October 9, 2009
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A controversy over minstrelsy reveals its shockingly durable appeal
By Mary Elizabeth Williams
October 8, 2009
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As Abed on "Community," Danny Pudi is overeager, offensive, exasperating -- and hilarious
By Mary Elizabeth Williams
October 8, 2009
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"Man Shops Globe" reveals what's fascinating and horrible about upscale catalog culture
By Heather Havrilesky
October 7, 2009
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Meshell Ndegeocello's unpredictable eighth album curses the darkness, then dives right in
By Heather Havrilesky
October 7, 2009
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Plus, "Dollhouse" and "Project Runway" replace the devil you know
By Heather Havrilesky
October 4, 2009
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The horror-comedy "Zombieland" bridges the American divide
By Stephanie Zacharek
October 2, 2009
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The not-so-awful truth is that Ricky Gervais is smart, funny and, yes, sexy
By Stephanie Zacharek
October 2, 2009
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With her directorial debut, Drew Barrymore gets by on a skate and a smile
By Stephanie Zacharek
October 2, 2009
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A gripping new account captures the October Revolution's great intellectual facing doom (and feeding bunnies)
By Andrew O'Hehir
October 1, 2009
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Patricia Heaton's Midwestern matriarch is sometimes funny, but ultimately too manic and silly to embrace
By Heather Havrilesky
September 30, 2009
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"The Marchesa Casati" celebrates an eccentric European siren who led her pet cheetahs through the streets of Venice
By Stephanie Zacharek
September 30, 2009
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Or maybe Matt Weiner knows that life in America really is that strange and brutal
By Heather Havrilesky
September 28, 2009
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Suze Orman, "Survivor" villain Russell and "Californication's" Hank Moody prove sweet revenge can make you rich
By Heather Havrilesky
September 27, 2009
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Bruce Willis -- with hair! -- channels his inner John Tesh in this loopy sci-fi thriller
By Stephanie Zacharek
September 25, 2009
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In "Capitalism: A Love Story," the filmmaker takes to the bullhorn to decry corporate greed -- and promote himself
By Stephanie Zacharek
September 23, 2009
The terrifying success of "Paranormal Activity"
The boy and the balloon
High-fiving 40-year-olds? Get out of "Cougar Town"!
Critics' Picks: Call it the "liberal Bible"
Film Salon: Your favorite Coen brothers movie
Critics' Picks: How to improve your personality!
Make "Nip/Tuck" a comedy!
"An Education": Romance with an older man
"Good Hair" gives it to us straight
"Couples Retreat" is marital hell
Is blackface the new black?
Critics' Picks: The comedy of Asperger's
Overpriced antiques for anxious yuppies
Critics' Picks: Sade meets the Marquis de Sade
The evil savior of "The Hills"
Three cheers for the red, white and goo
"The Invention of Lying" tells it straight
"Whip It" wobbles, but it doesn't fall down
Critic's Picks: The tragic twilight of Leon Trotsky
"The Middle" just middling
Critics' Picks: More daring than Lady Gaga
Has "Mad Men" gone mad?
Vengeance equals payola
"Surrogates": Accept no substitutes 
Michael Moore and the evils of free enterprise
