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A look back at the best the movie year 2008 had to offer

In a year for movies with little to celebrate, Scene film writers Noel Murray and Jim Ridley sifted through the past 12 months panning for gold... More>>

Published: January 01, 2009

Christmas Day floods theaters with costly gifts—but Benjamin Button is the one to open first

THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON Judging from its early critical reception, this delicate, intricate romantic fantasy was the last movie... More>>

Published: December 25, 2008

A talk with Catherine Deneuve about A Christmas Tale and her long, glorious non-career

Siren. Icon. Muse. You can apply any or all of those labels to Catherine Deneuve but trying to make any one of them stick is trickier than... More>>

By Scott Foundas

Published: December 18, 2008

A Christmas Tale makes for the season's richest cinematic pudding

Arnaud Desplechin is a cinema maximalist: A Christmas Tale feels like all 12 days of seasonal merriment, and then some. This comic, ultimately... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: December 18, 2008

Will Smith's new bummer Seven Pounds might as well be The Pursuit of Unhappyness

Two years ago nearly to the day, Will Smith and Italian director Gabriele Muccino released The Pursuit of Happyness, one of the most underrated... More>>

By Scott Foundas

Published: December 18, 2008

Earth doesn't move for Day The Earth Stood Still remake

Flying saucers just aren't that scary anymore. Especially after Ed Wood and Mars Attacks, it's hard to take a threat from a giant Frisbee all... More>>

By Luke Y. Thompson

Published: December 11, 2008

Cautious to a Fault, Gus Van Sant's Harvey Milk Biopic is Still Timed to Explode on Impact

Gus Van Sant has never been what you'd call a risk-averse filmmaker, but he directs his Harvey Milk biopic Milk so carefully, there might be a... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: December 04, 2008

Short Takes

This week in local theaters

FAMILIAR STRANGERS A disarming indie sleeper that could become the IFC alternative to holiday showings of Planes, Trains and Automobiles, this... More>>

Published: December 04, 2008

Crazy Late-Career Triumph or Requiem for an Action Hero? Either Way, Let's See Chuck Norris top Jean-Claude Van Damme's JCVD

Shown in the market last May at Cannes, Jean-Claude Van Damme's JCVD garnered a surprise critical cult. Audiences, midnight or otherwise, may... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: December 04, 2008

Thanksgiving Releases Feature Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon, but It's a Swedish Vampire Movie That Deserves Your Attention

ASHES OF TIME REDUX All of Wong Kar-wai's films are movies out of time, but his big-budget wuxia epic Ashes of Time seemed particularly doomed to... More>>

Published: November 27, 2008

Art imitates life imitating art in Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York

If you traveled the length of John Malkovich's medulla oblongata, hung a sharp left at the desk where Beckett's Krapp recorded his last tape, and... More>>

By Scott Foundas

Published: November 20, 2008

Nashville filmmaker explores subculture where everyone is Abraham Lincoln

Maybe this sounds strange to say of a haggard, bewhiskered man who hasn't been seen walking the planet in seven score and three years, but Elvis... More>>

By Jim Ridley

Published: November 13, 2008

This week in local theaters

QUANTUM OF SOLACE Daniel Craig's second outing as James Bond is as frustrating, sloppy and brusque as its predecessor was engaging, sleek and... More>>

Published: November 13, 2008

'Quantum of Solace': New 007 Shaky, Not Stirring

Those of us who adored Casino Royale, the 2006 reboot of the haggard, self-parodic James Bond franchise, had some trouble trying to decide where... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: November 13, 2008

Blues Brother

Soul Men pays fitting tribute to the late Bernie Mac

If the dream of every comic is to have his humor live on long after he's left the stage, then the late Bernie Mac has exited this world on a high... More>>

By Chuck Wilson

Published: November 06, 2008

Wave of Mutilation

Chabrol has spry, nasty fun with A Girl Cut in Two

From the standpoint of 2008, the French new wave that broke half a century ago is a towering monument to a particular moment—a solitary... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: November 06, 2008

Clockwork Oranges and Doomsday Devices

A complete Stanley Kubrick retro hails one of the movies' most polarizing talents

No director seems less likely to inspire consensus than the late Stanley Kubrick, who would have turned 80 this year. He left behind a body of... More>>

Published: October 30, 2008

This week in local theaters

RACHEL GETTING MARRIED A reminder of why people first fell in love with Jonathan Demme's unpredictable yet unfailingly generous human comedies... More>>

Published: October 30, 2008

City of Devils

Angelina Jolie takes on a serial killer and the crooked LAPD in Clint Eastwood's latest

On a double bill with L.A. Confidential, Chinatown or just about any film made after 1970 about institutional corruption in Los Angeles, Clint... More>>

By Ella Taylor

Published: October 30, 2008

Rent-a-Cop

Pride and Glory is as dull as police drama gets

Pride and Glory doesn't make any effort to disguise precisely what it is: a barely held together string of vignettes lifted from every cop movie... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: October 23, 2008

This week in local theaters

FLOW: FOR LOVE OF WATER One of those charming little documentaries that make you question whether the human race is really worth preserving,... More>>

Published: October 23, 2008

Holy Land Over Hollywood

Nashville Jewish Film Festival focuses on Israel, with unusually strong results

This year the Nashville Jewish Film Festival has two milestones to celebrate: its own eighth birthday, and the 60th anniversary of the founding... More>>

Published: October 23, 2008

House of No Pain

Nashville's IBFF takes the post-Madea pulse of African-American film

Something funny happened between the start-up of the International Black Film Festival of Nashville and this year: Tyler Perry. In 2006, as the... More>>

By Jim Ridley

Published: October 16, 2008

Short Takes

W. As much edited as it is directed, Oliver Stone's psycho-historical portrait of George W. Bush has all the queasy appeal of a strychnine-laced... More>>

Published: October 16, 2008

The Son Also Rises

Oliver Stone on W. and the President Who Would Be John Wayne

Sitting in the back of the restaurant at New York's überchic Royalton Hotel in an orange polo shirt and khakis, Oliver Stone looks out of... More>>

By Scott Foundas

Published: October 16, 2008

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