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Scenic Routes A quiet scene from The Matrix demonstrates how to make exposition compelling

Morpheus explains The Matrix by not explaining The Matrix.

May 20, 2013 | 11:00am -
Cannes Film Festival Cannes 2013, Day Five : Takashi Miike schlocks it up, in a good way

Looking at the festival’s fifth day.

May 20, 2013 | 10:37am -
Cannes Film Festival Cannes 2013, Day Four: The Coen brothers return to the festival with a folk-rock flashback

Looking at the festival's fourth day.

May 19, 2013 | 2:39pm -
Cannes Film Festival Cannes 2013, Day Three: Cheers for the young stars of The Selfish Giant, jeers for the new films by Hirokazu Kore-eda and Arnaud Desplechin

Looking at the festival's third day.

May 18, 2013 | 10:17am -
Watch This With Beavis And Butt-head Do America, Mike Judge skewered the idiocy of cinematic adventures

MTV’s couch-potato satirists “huh-huh” their way through an epic quest.

May 17, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Cannes Film Festival Cannes 2013, Day Two: Iranian director Asghar Farhadi chases A Separation with another stunning drama

Looking at the festival's second day.

May 17, 2013 | 10:38am -
Cannes Film Festival Cannes 2013, Day One: Sofia Coppola offers the first misfire of the festival

Our look at the first day of Cannes.

May 16, 2013 | 11:15am -
Movie Review 33 Postcards

There must be cheaper ways to boost the Chinese and Australian tourism industries…

May 16, 2013 | 12:01am -
Movie Review State 194

For the uninitiated, here’s a documentary primer on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

May 16, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Venus And Serena

A conventional sports doc searches for uplift in the worst season of the tennis pros’ careers.

May 9, 2013 | 12:03am -
Movie Review And Now A Word From Our Sponsor

The great Bruce Greenwood almost saves this pointless farce. Almost.

May 9, 2013 | 12:02am -
Preview The other side of summer: A preview of the season’s non-blockbuster movies

There’s more to summer cinema than superheroes and sequels.

May 9, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This The Bard gets a millennial makeover in Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet

To see or not to see? Spare yourself the debate. This Shakespeare adaptation is stellar.

May 7, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Scenic Routes Shelley Duvall does the talking, but Sissy Spacek may be the real protagonist of Altman’s 3 Women

Two scenes from Robert Altman’s drama illustrate how a movie’s “main” character is not always the one with all the dialogue.

May 6, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Watch This Believe it or not, Sky High is a blast

Overcoming a less-than-promising pedigree, this Hollywood superhero comedy soars.

May 2, 2013 | 11:00am -
Movie Review Post Tenebras Lux

The new film from Carlos Reygadas starts brilliant, then gets baffling.

May 2, 2013 | 12:07am -
Movie Review Dead Man’s Burden

Sometimes they do make ’em like they used to.

May 2, 2013 | 12:06am -
Watch This Even by the standards of noir, Night Moves is harsh

Gene Hackman snoops around the Florida Keys in Arthur Penn’s ultra-bleak crime flick.

April 26, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Mud

Matthew McConaughey's winning streak continues with an adventure yarn from the director of Take Shelter.

April 25, 2013 | 12:09am -
Movie Review Paradise: Love

Ulrich Seidl (Import/Export) kicks off his bleak Paradise trilogy with a tale of mutual exploitation.

April 25, 2013 | 12:07am -
Scenic Routes The big numbers are the lowlight of Dancer In The Dark

Can Lars von Trier’s musical—or any musical—transcend bad song-and-dance routines?

April 22, 2013 | 11:00am -
Watch This The cerebral sci-fi classic Solaris is for adventurous viewers only

Thirty years before Steven Soderbergh vexed audiences with a glossy remake, Andrei Tarkovsky unleashed an even more challenging sci-fi opus.

April 17, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Movie Review The Angels’ Share

Ken Loach lightens up with a winning comedy about community servants who get into the whiskey business.

April 11, 2013 | 12:02am -
Scenic Routes The cats, not the cast, draw viewers’ eyes in Jean Vigo’s classic L’Atalante

What the film’s remarkable use of felines says about the practice of putting animals in movies.

April 8, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This Why Bull Durham is the greatest baseball movie ever made

Ron Shelton’s endlessly quotable romantic comedy makes passion its subject.

April 8, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Tomorrow You’re Gone

An ex-con (Stephen Dorff) goes on a dangerous mission for his jailhouse mentor (Willem Dafoe) in this indie thriller.

April 4, 2013 | 12:08am -
Movie Review Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal

This horror-comedy does feature a sleepwalking cannibal, but also subtler pleasures.

April 4, 2013 | 12:02am -
Watch This Jean Cocteau’s The Blood Of A Poet is a mesmerizingly bizarre feast for the senses

Made in the early ’30s, a Surrealist wonder severs all ties to narrative convention.

April 3, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Welcome To The Punch

In this strong thriller, a crook (Mark Strong) emerges from hiding to help his son after a heist gone wrong.

March 28, 2013 | 12:07am -
Movie Review Renoir

The legacies of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and his director son Jean are linked by a model-turned-actress.

March 28, 2013 | 12:03am -

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