Movie Reviews

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Soderbergh's spectacular "Che"-volution
Messy, unfinished and utterly mesmerizing, Steven Soderbergh's two-part, four-hour Che Guevara opus, starring Benicio del Toro, sets Cannes buzzing.
"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"
Steven Spielberg's beloved adventure series has built its own Temple of Hype -- but the latest installment manages to surprise and delight.
Clint, Angelina and the movie with no name
Eastwood and his pregnant star bring their moody 1920s L.A. thriller to Cannes. But what's it called?
Blood on the beach
From a dizzying reinvention of the Mafia film to Tony Manero as serial killer to the death of Bobby Sands, it's a violent spring at Cannes.
Indy and the Martian Inca mummies -- vs. the French!
"Indy 4" premieres, Harrison Ford charms the Euro-throngs and Cannes surrenders to celebutainment silliness.
Woody Allen and Mike Tyson, together at last
A marriage made in Cannes: Two notorious tabloid-fodder Yanks are showered with love on the Riviera.
"The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian"
Grand battles! Dazzling special effects! But where are all the people?
Grief, cancer, Nietzsche and Santa
Arnaud Desplechin's wrenching "Christmas Tale" might just be a dysfunctional-family masterpiece.
Cannes opens with a dud -- but delights follow
"Blindness" is an apocalyptic horror flick, rendered dull and pretentious. But an astonishing animated war film and a gripping prison drama provide the fireworks.
If Austin Powers were French -- and funny
He might be the star of "OSS 117," a deadpan, borderline-brilliant satire of postwar spy movies and preening Euro-idiocy in the Middle East.
"Speed Racer"
You know a movie's heading nowhere fast when even its monkey doesn't make you laugh.
"What Happens in Vegas"
This Ashton Kutcher-Cameron Diaz romantic comedy needs fewer sunsets and more lap dances and tequila shooters.
Building a road from Bollywood to dullsville
How can a gorgeous-looking movie about an adulterous interracial affair in 1930s India be so boring? Plus: The amazing Juliet Stevenson, sex symbol at age 51.
A star is born (at age 51)
As a married woman meeting her ex-lover 25 years later, Juliet Stevenson transforms a Lifetime-level middle-aged rom-com into delirious comic magic.
The Iraq movie we've been waiting for
Nick Broomfield's pulse-pounding "Battle for Haditha" turns the infamous 2005 civilian massacre into a haunting classic about the inhumanity of war.
10 to watch from Tribeca
A hot Swedish girlfriend (who's undead), a Spanish math thriller, getting high with Ben Kingsley and the rest of the best from NYC's spring fest.
Marilyn, Michael and the flying nuns
Harmony Korine, the skate-punk Fitzgerald of the '90s, is back for his second act -- with a sweet and surprisingly lovely film, believe it or not.
"Made of Honor"
This formulaic romantic comedy starring Patrick "McDreamy" Dempsey leaves us McCold.
The girl who's also a boy
A nifty Gothic fable about an intersex teen in a desolate coastal town is among the year's most striking debuts.
"Iron Man"
Robert Downey Jr. gives this inventive superhero blockbuster its warm, glowing heart -- and makes it soar.
Three films about poverty, murder and Coca-Cola
Take a rattle-trap road trip with a trio of Romanian losers, a haunting cruise "Up the Yangtze" and a silky slide into a Hitchcock-lite thriller.
He conquered the World Trade Center
"Man on Wire" and its daredevil star thrill Tribeca, but Mamet's "Redbelt" is a jiu-jitsu pratfall. Plus: Is Brecht still relevant?
"Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay"
This good-natured sequel might not be as endearing as the original, but it's still much more than another stoner comedy.
"Deception"
It's bad enough that this Ewan McGregor and Hugh Jackman thriller is improbable. But why does it have to look so awful?
Interrogating Abu Ghraib
Errol Morris on his film "Standard Operating Procedure," why Lynndie England and others took photographs, and how the infamous images conceal as much as they reveal (podcast and video).
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