Film
Teheran Confidential
Hossein Keshavarz wants his movie 'Dog Sweat' to show the way people really live in Iran
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Chico & Rita
A pianist and a beautiful singer make a fateful journey from Cuba to New York in animated Chico & Rita.
read moreArrietty
The new film 'The Secret World of Arrietty' is a Japanese animated version of the children's tale 'The Borrowers'.
read moreOscar Nominated Shorts
For the Oscar-betting pool on Animated Short Subjects: note that the big nominations went to retro films (Hugo, The Artist and so on). Thus Moonbat Studios, creators of "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore," should be clearing some mantelpiece space.
read moreAlbert Nobbs
Based on a George Moore novella, Albert Nobbs, starring Glenn Close, has some plusses. It's plausible-ultimately, it's a story of the kind of thing that used to happen all the time
read moreCinequest Preview
Cinequest announces this year's slate of features, documentaries, shorts, panels and Mavericks coming to San Jose.
read moreShe’s Leaving Home
In the Iranian feature A Separation, a knockout follows a spiral of lies in the wake of a split-up
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Winging It
The heroism of the Tuskegee Airmen will never be forgot. Red Tails, however forget about it.
read moreA Kid’s 9/11
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close turns a national tragedy into a children’s pop-up story.
read moreStand Down, Meryl
The new Meryl Streep film The Iron Lady fails even as a handkerchief-soaker for an audience of wonks from the Hoover Institute
read moreRoman Woolf
A quartet of nasty bourgeois, played by four top-drawer actors with crack timing, make Roman Polanski’s Carnage a civilized entertainment
read moreNot so Holly Jolie
Director/writer Angelina Jolie strives hard for In the Land of Blood and Honey, but art is not for strivers
read moreTricky Nick
Xavier Durringer’s The Conquest reiterates de Gaulle’s idea that France is ungovernable—much like our own state of California. Snobbery may be the reason why this mordant film has it in for its protagonist. President Nicolas Sarkozy (Denis Podalydès) is known, as if he were a lost Marx brother, as “Sarko.”
read moreSpy vs. Spy
Gary Oldman’s George Smiley hunts for moles in a chilly adaptation of 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'
read moreCold Case
David Fincher lays on the visual style in his adaptation of Stieg Larsson's 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo'
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Tintin Type
Stephen Spielberg brings the boy reporter to life in animated version of ‘The Adventures of Tintin’
read moreGhost in the Mission
The stunts and gadgets battle improbable plot and affectless Cruise performance in new 'Mission Impossible'
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