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Ah, Madonna. People have been arguing about her ever since that moment in the early '80s when somebody first blurted out, "She can't sing --...
Chronicle is a teen-outcast science-fiction movie told in the low-budget, found-footage style of The Blair Witch Project . As soon as you hear that, you…
Big Miracle is an inspirational true-life drama, set in 1988, that tells the story of Operation Breakthrough, the international effort to rescue three gray whales…
A couple of weeks ago, based on the fact that The Artist, as it began to open across the country, didn't exactly seem to be...
Elizabeth Olsen, who was last year's Sundance It Girl, deserved the terrific reviews she got for Martha Marcy May Marlene. But since the character she...
It reduces the hilarious humanity of Bridesmaids to sum it up, simply, as the comedy that proved that girls in a movie could be just as...
When Spike Lee threw a small fit last night during his Q&A after the premiere of Red Hook Summer, is it because he was angry...
Every year at Sundance since the 2008 economic meltdown, there has been a movie that's looked at the new America through the lens of finance;...
I went into West of Memphis, the new documentary, financed by Peter Jackson, about the West Memphis Three case -- the gruesome 1993 child murders...
It's been 26 years since Top Gun , but the dogfights in that absurdly entertaining Reagan-era classic have lost none of their speed-demon zap. That…
This film has a grander trajectory than just about any other fashion doc. Halston, looking like a sunglassed cross between Henry Fonda and Richard E.…
A harmless crime caper. It stars Peter Facinelli ( Nurse Jackie , the Twilight series), who also wrote the script, shaping the movie to his…
A few weeks ago, the holiday movie season -- or, at least, the conventional wisdom on it -- went a little nutty. The media decreed...
War films can achieve a certain cold, clear moral power through the unblinking depiction of atrocity. Angelina Jolie, making her debut as a writer-director with…
One of the many things that distinguish an extraordinary filmmaker from the merely ordinary is that the former doesn't just stage scenes — he uses…
EW critic picks his favorite films of the year -- and the five worst he saw in the past 12 months
EW critic picks his favorite films of the year -- and the five worst he saw in the past 12 months
EW critic picks his favorite films of the year -- and the five worst he saw in the past 12 months
EW critic picks his favorite films of the year -- and the five worst he saw in the past 12 months
EW critic picks his favorite films of the year -- and the five worst he saw in the past 12 months
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