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Review: Noble Son

A precious, hyperkinetic mess
On its surface, this quirky thriller from Randall Miller has indie-style appeal, with Alan Rickman in a delicious role as a gluttonous, philandering, narcissistic physics professor whose Nobel Prize win is deflated by the kidnapping of his rebellious philosophy-major son.

By: PEG ALOI | December 03, 2008

Review: Pray the Devil Back to Hell

A moving historical documentary
Remember the old "essentialist" argument that women are by nature pacifist and nurturing whereas men are aggressive and warlike?

By: GERALD PEARY | December 03, 2008

Were the World Mine

A clumsy, queer take on the Bard
High School Musical 3 not quite the gay romp you were hoping for?

By: BRETT MICHEL | December 03, 2008

Review: Andy Warhol's Denied

A wry, amusing bit of art-world sleuthing
Andy himself would love the to-do concerning his mountains of left-over work.

By: GERALD PEARY | November 25, 2008

Review: Four Christmases

Tests the audiences' tolerance of grim cheer
Rather than the typical snowstorm that strands characters in a Holiday-themed comedy, it's heavy cloud cover that keeps San Francisco couple Brad and Kate from catching their flight to Fiji.

By: BRETT MICHEL | November 25, 2008

Review: Milk

Van Sant's gay of reckoning
Van Sant's Milk of human kindness

By: PETER KEOUGH | November 26, 2008

Review: Dream of Life

An intimate, affectionate, non-linear visit
This collage of a documentary emanates from an 11-year collaboration between punk poet/rocker Patti Smith and her filmmaker friend Steven Sebring.

By: GERALD PEARY | November 25, 2008

Review: Transporter 3

A poor man’s version of the latest James Bond outing
The new Transporter spills out in a jumble of frenetic action vignettes.

By: TOM MEEK | November 26, 2008

Review: Australia

Baz Luhrmann's Oz and ends
Baz Luhrmann's incontinent Australia

By: PETER KEOUGH | November 25, 2008

Review: Twilight gives life to the undead

Twilight puts the life back into the undead
Twilight puts the life back into the undead

By: PETER KEOUGH | November 24, 2008

Review: Danny Boyle's Millionaire Slumdog

Slumdog Millionaire is a magical misery tour
Slumdog Millionaire is a magical misery tour

By: PETER KEOUGH | November 24, 2008

Review: A Christmas Tale at the IFC

A twisted Christmas stocking
Maybe Charles, who died of leukemia three decades ago, at the age of six, knew what he was doing.

By: PETER KEOUGH | November 24, 2008

Review: Disney's animated Bolt

Pixarian technical wizardry and Disney schmaltz
The celebs are okay under the direction of Chris Williams and Byron Howard, but the best lines belong to animator Mark Walton as Rhino, a fanboy hamster who fogs up his plastic ball when excited.

By: CHRIS WANGLER | November 24, 2008

Review: Eden is no utopia

The story is too familiar
There's a utopian pastoral painting on the wall of Billy and Breda Farrell's bedroom, but their actual marriage is no Eden.

By: GERALD PEARY | November 19, 2008

Review: Harvard Beats Yale 29-29

Scores in nearly every department
Kevin Rafferty's 40th-anniversary documentary about the fabled Game of 1968 — when both teams were unbeaten and Harvard, after being completely outplayed by the 16th-ranked Elis, scored 16 points in the final 42 seconds to "win" — has no designs on being innovative: contemporary interviews with the players are intercut with slightly fuzzy but quite acceptable footage of the game.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | November 24, 2008