http://dir.salon.com/topics/movie_reviews/?source=rss&aim=movie_reviews en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT Movie reviews Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/07/09/battle_rattle/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/07/09/battle_rattle/index.html?source=rss Welcome to the military's Iraq Simulation, where the townspeople are Arab actors, the insurgents come from Arkansas -- and things tend to go horribly wrong. Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/07/04/gibney_gonzo/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/07/04/gibney_gonzo/index.html?source=rss Alex Gibney talks about his Oscar-winning "Taxi to the Dark Side" and his new look at Hunter S. Thompson, American hero. (Plus: Audio podcast.) Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/07/03/wackness/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/07/03/wackness/index.html?source=rss In this interview and podcast, director Jonathan Levine talks about how Holden Caulfield met Rudy Giuliani and Biggie in the heartbroken, heat-stricken New York summer of 1994. Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/07/02/japan_cuts/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/07/02/japan_cuts/index.html?source=rss Asia's greatest cinema power never really lost its mojo. But 10 years after Kurosawa's death, Japanese movies are hotter (and weirder) than ever. By Stephanie Zacharek Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/07/01/hancock/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/07/01/hancock/index.html?source=rss This story of a seriously flaked-out superhero shows us the limits of Will Smith's superpowers. Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/30/tell_no_one/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/30/tell_no_one/index.html?source=rss Harlan Coben's beach-read bestseller "Tell No One" becomes a crackerjack thriller -- made in France. Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/27/elsa/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/27/elsa/index.html?source=rss An elderly Spanish couple -- one dignified, the other not -- revisits the classic love affair between Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg. By Stephanie Zacharek Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/06/27/wall_e/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/06/27/wall_e/index.html?source=rss This new Pixar movie is an environmental cautionary tale and a story of robot love -- and quite possibly the most melancholy cartoon ever made. By Stephanie Zacharek Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/06/27/wanted/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/06/27/wanted/index.html?source=rss Sick thrills, "Matrix"-like special effects, Angelina Jolie in black leather -- but this action picture's secret weapon is James McAvoy. By Stephanie Zacharek Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/06/27/last_mistress/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/06/27/last_mistress/index.html?source=rss This explicit movie about a sexually insatiable 19th century courtesan emerges like an erotic dream. Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/26/trumbo/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/26/trumbo/index.html?source=rss How the legendary screenwriter of "Roman Holiday" and "Spartacus" defied Congress, broke the blacklist and raised his family. Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/21/nakadai/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/21/nakadai/index.html?source=rss Little known outside his homeland, haunted hero-villain Tatsuya Nakadai spans the best years, and greatest films, of Japan's postwar cinema boom. By Stephanie Zacharek Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/06/20/get_smart/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/06/20/get_smart/index.html?source=rss Steve Carell plays everyone's favorite shoe-phone-sporting spy in this surprisingly smart comedy. By Stephanie Zacharek Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/06/20/kit_kittredge/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/06/20/kit_kittredge/index.html?source=rss Yes, it's based on a doll. But this gentle-spirited movie makes the past come alive. By Stephanie Zacharek Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/06/20/love_guru/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/06/20/love_guru/index.html?source=rss Mike Myers' new movie is offensive to Hindus? They're not the only ones. Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/19/winnipeg/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/19/winnipeg/index.html?source=rss It's frozen allegory week -- in summer! Guy Maddin reveals the sleepwalking sex secrets of Winnipeg; Werner Herzog chases psycho penguins in Antarctica. By Stephanie Zacharek Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/06/13/hulk/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/06/13/hulk/index.html?source=rss The big, angry green guy is back in this booming picture. Sure, it's a fantasy -- but is it too much to hope for a little believability? By Mary Elizabeth Williams Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/06/13/happening/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/06/13/happening/index.html?source=rss Suicide is painless. Can the same be said of M. Night Shyamalan's latest scare flick, in which people off themselves in countless ingenious ways? Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/12/verdoux/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/12/verdoux/index.html?source=rss How Charlie Chaplin's poisonously dark "Monsieur Verdoux" drove the audience away -- and was embraced by critics and filmmakers as a masterpiece. Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/12/beauty_trouble/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/06/12/beauty_trouble/index.html?source=rss Smoldering Ana Geislerová lights up the screen in a dark, sexy blend of romance and social satire, one of the year's best foreign flicks. By Stephanie Zacharek Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/06/06/zohan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/06/06/zohan/index.html?source=rss Despite the bare butts and crude sex jokes -- or because of them -- this Adam Sandler vehicle addresses some of the biggest political problems of our time. By Stephanie Zacharek Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/06/06/mother_of_tears/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/06/06/mother_of_tears/index.html?source=rss Orgies! Eviscerations! Power-crazed witches! As sick and twisted as this horror movie is, it's also full of life. Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/05/30/unknown/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/05/30/unknown/index.html?source=rss Massive Euro-hit "The Unknown Woman" is ludicrous and trashy -- don't miss it! Plus: "Stuck" in a windshield and left to die. Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/05/30/stuck/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/05/30/stuck/index.html?source=rss Is Stuart Gordon's black-comic horror movie "Stuck" just tabloid-fueled gore or American metaphor? By Stephanie Zacharek Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:07:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/05/30/sex_and_the_city/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2008/05/30/sex_and_the_city/index.html?source=rss Everyone's favorite cosmo-swilling sophisticates sashay onto the big screen in a padded push-up bra version of the TV show that made us love them.