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The bad news

Ben Foster is painfully good as an emotionally detached casualty notification officer

By Anders Wright 11/17/2009
Arrrrgh!

Rock ’n’ roll deserves better than Pirate Radio, the cinematic equivalent of soft rock

By Anders Wright 11/10/2009
Mind games

Even with its stellar cast, The Men Who Stare at Goats isn’t the movie you’re looking for

By Anders Wright 11/03/2009
Fighting Irish

Violence begets violence and terrific performances in Five Minutes of Heaven

By Anders Wright 10/27/2009
School of hard knocks

Nick Hornby does a 180 in his screenplay for An Education, about a girl who desperately wants to grow up

By Anders Wright 10/20/2009
Melting pot

Some of the short films in New York, I Love You work, others not so much—just like the city itself

By Anders Wright 10/13/2009
Gotta have faith

The Coen brothers make their most personal, most maddening film yet

By Anders Wright 10/06/2009
Power to the people

Michael Moore is mad as hell, and you should be, too

By Anders Wright 09/29/2009
Twinkle, twinkle

Jane Campion creates period poetry with Bright Star

By Anders Wright 09/22/2009
Personal foul

Giants diehard learns about the painful side of sports in Big Fan

By Anders Wright 09/15/2009
Re-animated

Even with voice talent like Elijah Wood and Jennifer Connelley, the style of 9 outweighs its substance

By Anders Wright 09/08/2009
Revisionist history

Robin Williams does his best work in years in Bobcat Goldthwait's nasty dramedy World's Greatest Dad

By Anders Wright 09/01/2009
Harshed mellow

Ang Lee’s new film, Taking Woodstock, is a bad trip

By Anders Wright 08/25/2009
Blood lust

Oldboy director Park Chan-wook talks about Catholicism and Thirst, his anti-Twilight vampire movie

By Anders Wright 08/18/2009
Illegal aliens

Yes, District 9, from executive producer Peter Jackson, is the summer sci-fi movie you've been waiting for

By Anders Wright 08/11/2009