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A gift from France. Open now. Mathieu Amalric and Catherine Deneuve in "A Christmas Tale" Woody Allen once said he treasured the films of Ingmar Bergman for the Swedish director's ability to put two people in a ...

Asa Butterfield as Bruno in "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" is an unusual movie that offers a child's eye view of the Holocaust.

Dev Patel and Freida Pinto in "Slumdog Millionaire" Danny Boyle 's "Slumdog Millionaire" is a head-first immersion into the roiling urban culture of modern India, a quest movie that follows its teenage hero ...

Paul Rudd finally gets a comedy to call his own. Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Paul Rudd in "Role Models" Although the man himself had nothing to do with making the movie, "Role Models," the new comedy starring ...

A muddled farewell to the late Bernie Mac. Bernie Mac and Samuel L. Jackson in "Soul Men" "Soul Men" is a sweet and occasionally funny, but over-amped and limply constructed comedy about two old R&B stars who ...

A movie in search of a cult. Good luck. Terrance Zdunich in "Repo! The Genetic Opera" Anyone intent on reviving the rock opera, that most misbegotten of pop-music genres, should consider two things.

Just when you thought everyone had launched a web series, there's a new face on the scene: Kurt Loder .

Takin' it to the screen with Motor City mystery group ADULT. From the set of "Decampment" Those familiar with the music released over the last decade by ADULT.

A horror film unlike any other. Lina Leandersson in "Let The Right One In" "Let the Right One In," a luminous, transfixing new vampire movie from Sweden, does a rare thing: It creates a completely new ...

Edward Norton and Colin Farrell add some new wrinkles to another urban cop flick.

Eugene Hutz in "Filth and Wisdom" Madonna makes her directorial debut with a three-hour movie that ... no, wait - it says 84 minutes here; surely a misprint.

Mark Wahlberg chills down for an all-stylish action bash. Mark Wahlberg in "Max Payne" "Max Payne" is yet another video game brought to grim, snarling life for the screen .

Harry Treadaway and Saoirse Ronan in "City of Ember" Ember is a city that glows like a coal deep beneath the surface of the Earth, a refuge for the survivors of a cataclysm that wiped out all life above more ...

Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in a fairly average action flick. Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in "Body of Lies" Russell Crowe is always an interesting actor to watch, even in the oddly uninvolving ...

"RocknRolla" suggests that Guy Ritchie should maybe rethink the course of his career, Kurt Loder says.

Greg Kinnear as the man who took on Big Auto and sort of won. Greg Kinnear in "Flash of Genius" In 1986, Tom Wolfe published a now-famous article in Popular Mechanics called "Land of Wizards." In it, he ...

Anne Hathaway dazzles in Jonathan Demme's one-of-a-kind latest. Tunde Adebimpe, Anne Hathaway and Rosemarie DeWitt in "Rachel Getting Married" "Rachel Getting Married" isn't like any other Jonathan Demme movie.

Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo stand out in a movie that doesn't. Mark Ruffalo and Julianne Moore in "Blindness" Stopped at a light on a busy street in an unnamed city, a motorist raises his hands to his eyes ...

Shia LaBeouf pinned down by pyro. Shia LaBeouf in "Eagle Eye" "Eagle Eye" is yet another action movie aimed at people unfamiliar with the tremendous strides made in special effects over the last 15 years.

Vinnie Jones as Mahogany in "The Midnight Meat Train" Well, here it is, the little movie that Lionsgate dumped unheralded into about a hundred second-run theatres last month, consigning it to the trash heap of ...