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Movie Review My Brother The Devil

In this ambitious genre film, the troubled sons of Egyptian immigrants try to survive in British gangland.

March 21, 2013 | 12:02am -
Watch This Julia Loktev’s Day Night Day Night follows a suicide bomber to Times Square

The director of The Loneliest Planet tracks a woman’s harrowing path from training to execution, emphasizing her isolation.

March 20, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Emperor

General Douglas MacArthur (Tommy Lee Jones) investigates Emperor Hirohito’s role in World War II in this historical fiction.

March 14, 2013 | 12:05am -
HomeVideo Review Chronicle Of A Summer

The idea of “cinéma vérité” was put to the test in this groundbreaking 1961 French documentary.

March 13, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This Two magic legends screw with viewers and each other in Penn & Teller Get Killed

The title characters’ first and last film isn’t coherent, but does have some fun with itself.

March 13, 2013 | 12:00am -
Scenic Routes The mastery of Brick’s opening (annotated by writer-director Rian Johnson)

The debut feature from the director of Looper starts strong. Here’s what it does and why it works—with thoughts from Johnson himself.

March 11, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Somebody Up There Likes Me

Even Nick Offerman can’t redeem this excruciating deadpan comedy.

March 7, 2013 | 12:07am -
Movie Review The Silence

In this tense German drama, an adult returns to the scene of a 23-year-old crime he witnessed.

March 7, 2013 | 12:04am -
Watch This A documentary about Wilco found the band—and the music world—on the brink

Only 11 years old, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart is now sweetly quaint.

March 6, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Future Weather

A 13-year-old girl deals with her mother’s abandonment by striking out on her own in this sensitive indie.

February 28, 2013 | 12:03am -
Movie Review The Condemned

A hostile, haunted town in remote Puerto Rico thwarts a doctor’s attempt to honor her father.

February 28, 2013 | 12:02am -
HomeVideo Review The Ballad Of Narayama

The ritual of leaving the elderly on a mountain to die underpins this kabuki-influenced Japanese drama.

February 27, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This Ignored by Oscar, Steve Martin gave 1984’s best lead performance in All Of Me

Sorry, F. Murray Abraham.

February 26, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This A corporate whistleblower’s daily life lends dimension to the fact-based Silkwood

Mike Nichols’ film is the rare movie about a whistleblower that acknowledges one doesn’t constantly have the whistle in one’s mouth.

February 21, 2013 | 12:00am -
Scenic Routes The audacious Odd Man Out turns Britain’s biggest star into furniture in his own film

The barely conscious James Mason serves as the fulcrum for a community drama.

February 18, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Movie Review No

Director Pablo Larraín dismantles Pinochet’s legacy with this ingenious comedy about a voter referendum to oust him.

February 14, 2013 | 12:02am -
Watch This The notorious flop Hudson Hawk goes places no other studio action vehicle would dare

The screenwriters of Die Hard and Heathers collaborate on a Bruce Willis action-comedy that somehow melds their sensibilities.

February 13, 2013 | 12:00am -
HomeVideo Review The Tin Drum

Günter Grass’ metaphorical novel about Nazism isn’t suited to adaptation, but Volker Schlöndorff gave it a shot.

February 6, 2013 | 12:00am -
Scenic Routes Stop Making Sense’s opening number establishes it as a concert film like no other

The groundbreaking performance begins with just David Byrne, a boombox, and a void waiting to be filled.

February 4, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This Alec Baldwin excels as a robber who robs robbers in the crime comedy Miami Blues

As a reverse Robin Hood, Alec Baldwin darkens this Day-Glo comedy with oily charisma.

February 4, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This An obscure H.P. Lovecraft story gets twisted into a hilarious gore comedy in Re-Animator

A young Stuart Gordon does his own reanimating with his inventive adaptation of a lesser H.P. Lovecraft story.

January 28, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Supporting Characters

The love lives of two film editors recalls Albert Brooks' great Modern Romance without quite reaching the bar.

January 24, 2013 | 12:01am -
Scenic Routes 1985’s Tampopo kicked off the era of death threats for loud moviegoers

The humorous meta opening of this Japanese comedy presaged decades of attempts to get audiences to sit down, shut up, and turn off their watch alarms.

January 21, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Watch This The Red Shoes skips the fairy tale’s severed feet and meditates on love instead

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger converted a grim Hans Christian Andersen story into a gorgeous, fevered spectacle.

January 21, 2013 | 12:00am -
Movie Review Outside Satan

French provocateur Bruno Dumont returns to his comfort zone of inexpressive bumpkins wandering a dreary countryside.

January 17, 2013 | 12:00am -
Watch This The darkly comic Barfly slips every cliché of inebriation

Making his first film in America, director Barbet Schroeder commissioned Charles Bukowski for a black comedy of ill manners.

January 14, 2013 | 10:00am -
For Our Consideration Zero Dark Thirty’s lone-wolf protagonist makes it more conventional than it seems

Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal’s acclaimed thriller is closer to Good Morning, Vietnam than anyone thinks.

January 14, 2013 | 12:00am -
Scenic Routes A Moonrise Kingdom montage shows the art of compression isn’t dead

Team America: World Police may have mocked montages into retreat, but not as far as Wes Anderson is concerned.

January 7, 2013 | 12:00pm -
Watch This The Night Of The Hunter was Charles Laughton’s first, and only, directorial masterpiece

The actor made one of the greatest movies in cinema history, then never made another.

January 7, 2013 | 12:00am -
Best of The best film scenes of 2012

These film scenes epitomized greatness or elevated mediocrity this year.

December 21, 2012 | 12:00am -

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