A last-minute addition to the Miami International Film Festival screening schedule, Bruce Weber’s short documentary Liberty City Is Like Paris to Me is among the most locally focused films in this year’s fest. And, for that reason, it could also end up being a lightning rod for debate. Already, we’ve…
Leo can’t deliver the goods to his girlfriend of six months. And there’s a good reason – he’s gay. But this is Catholic Uruguay, and men don’t just go around kissing other men in public. In Leo’s Room (El Cuarto de Leo), the title character, played by puppy-eyed Martín Rodríguez,…
Despite the fact they’ve been a committed couple for three and a half years, Sonia (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and Daniel (Romain Duris) don’t even live together. She sleeps alone in a big, polished Paris apartment while Daniel crashes across town in a perpetually in-progress renovation project that she’s nicknamed his “secret…
The seriously black comedy Police, Adjective at Miami Beach Cinematheque this weekend only
Today, when you pick up a fresh copy of this week’s New Times, take note: There’s a little gift nestled inside. It’s the official program for the 2010 Miami International Film Festival. (General admission tickets went on sale at 9 a.m. this morning.) But before you rip it out, run…
Scorsese’s Shutter Island is the good kind of insane
The White Ribbon is Michael Haneke’s best film
Valentine’s Day has too many stars and too many story lines
From Paris With Love: Cowboy diplomacy from John Travolta
Crazy Heart is a rarity: a well-done, adult American movie
Mel Gibson gets revenge in vigilante flick Edge of Darkness
Endgame, about the covert negotiations in the ’80s that helped bring down apartheid, follows Michael Young (Jonny Lee Miller), a public affairs director for a British gold-mining firm. Miller secretly assembles talks between African National Congress representatives led by Thabo Mbeki (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and powerful Afrikaners like philosophy prof Will…
For better or worse, there isn’t a human experience that French director André Téchiné can resist lathering into a tone poem. Tackling a 2004 incident whose sociopolitical ramifications can hardly be ignored — a young Gentile woman set off a media storm by falsely claiming to be the victim of…
Harrison Ford talks about his new movie, Extraordinary Measures
Peter Jackson makes a one-dimensional Lovely Bones
Reunited with Charles McKeown, his co-writer from Brazil and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Terry Gilliam has created another ultimate postmodern adventure crammed to a fault with big ideas and bigger images that mutate a grungy contemporary London into a living Heaven and Hell. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is…
The Book of Eli‘s postapocalyptic theology is a little warped
Ethan Hawke vampire flick Daybreakers squanders its actors
Leap Year bears no luck for Amy Adams
Sherlock Holmes
Pedro Almodovar’s Broken Embraces is twice as fun as it ought to be
Blockbuster Video’s dismal decade
