Movie Review: ‘The Runaways’
Like many a musical odyssey (Help!, Velvet Goldmine, SpiceWorld), this story of the Runaways' volatile tenure zips through a scene or two of a band…
Movie Review: ‘Shutter Island’
Four years after The Departed, Martin Scorsese returns to Massachusetts -- and to his favorite leading man. Here, it's 1954, and the director ferries DiCaprio…
Movie Review: Milk
Gus Van Sant's portrait of San Francisco politician Harvey Milk clunks along as the squarest movie he's ever made, a result of the director investing…
Boarding Gate
Combining elements of a D-grade erotic thriller and a deconstructed international thriller, Boarding Gate proves duly snazzy and sleazy -- kinda skanky in a highfalutin'
Paranoid Park
The action -- if action isn't too strong in the context of Gus Van Sant's latest downbeat meditation -- partly unfolds at a skate park…
Snow Angels
David Gordon Green, a director who made his name creating detailed portraits of the small-town South (like George Washington and All the Real Girls), heads…
The Bank Job
The makers of this extra-crunchy popcorn movie -- an Inside Man-ish heist flick, but also a spy tale, and ultimately a tribute to an exuberant…
The Killing of John Lennon
This portrait of psychosis slouches into release a couple months before the other Mark David Chapman movie, Chapter 27, which stars Jared Leto as the…
How to Rob a Bank
Loopy but glossy, this heist movie plays like a camp classic searching for its cult. Jason (Stahl), who has wandered in from some Reality Bites…
Be Kind Rewind
The titular establishment dodders along on a shabby corner in Passaic, New Jersey. It's a neighborhood video store whose owner -- called Mr. Fletcher, as…
Persepolis
Adapting her memoir into a starkly beautiful animated feature, comics artist Marjane Satrapi braids personal history and national tragedy. From the perspective of her parents,…
