Film, TV & Streaming

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It’s Complicated: Nancy Meyers can’t keep making the same movie over and over again

Avatar glitters, but it isn’t gold

Clint Eastwood’s Invictus: Not much truth but plenty of reconciliation

The Princess and the Frog: Disney’s first black princess can’t escape the ghetto

Richard Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles puts on quite a show

Brothers is a PTSD melodrama

Up in the Air steers clear of the predictable route, lands the emotion

Fantastic Mr. Fox: Wes Anderson and animation are a fantastic fit

What’s Wrong With Wes Anderson?

John Hillcoat’s The Road is middle-of-the-road

The Twilight Saga: New Moon: Too much angst, not enough saga

Precious: Diary of a sad black woman

The Messenger is a moving and nuanced drama about the casualties of the Iraq War

Completing his multifilm vendetta against the world’s tourist trade, German-born director Roland Emmerich sends the mother of all storms to level the Washington Monument, the Eiffel Tower, and a priest-filled Vatican City in his newest end-times thriller, 2012. From Independence Day (1996) to The Day After Tomorrow (2004), taking down…

Compared to its madcap predecessors — the psychotic Holden Caulfield update Donnie Darko and the delirious welcome-to-the-21st-century extravaganza Southland Tales — the new Richard Kelly movie is basically a sock of coal for Christmas. A mysterious stranger offers a nice American couple (Cameron Diaz and James Marsden) an unusual deal:…

Seven months after its theatrical release in the United Kingdom and two months after its DVD debut there, Pirate Radio washes ashore in U.S. theaters with a different title (it was formerly known as The Boat That Rocked) and most of its better bits excised. Writer/director Richard Curtis, paying homage…

The Men Who Stare at Goats: Did aliens abduct George Clooney’s sense of humor?

A Christmas Carol: A very CGI Christmas

This Is It: Michael Jackson goes out with a whimper

An Education and its star, Carey Mulligan, get good marks.

The Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man: Bad for the Jews