The Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Terri Sutton

Bertolucci's 'Conformist' hero stalks normality.

Oil Spill by David Ng

Petroleum-based spy thriller fails to strike black gold.

Short Film Reviews

Little Things Mean a Lot
Size matters in holiday movies, but shorts make an impression. (Film - 11/30/2005)

Bohemian Travesty
Something's wrong with 'Rent'--and it's not just the awful songs. (Film - 11/23/2005)

Southern Discomfort
'The Real World' is no place for an artist like William Eggleston. (Film - 11/23/2005)

The World is Not Enough
Robert Bresson found the ineffable in the ordinary. (Film - 11/16/2005)

Crouching Producer, Hidden Director
Longtime collaborators James Schamus and Ang Lee leave their cinema unsigned. (Film - 11/9/2005)

Louder Than Bombs
A Palestinian filmmaker records the tick-tick before the bang. (Film - 11/9/2005)

Ride Away
Ang Lee finds home on the range. (Film - 11/9/2005)

The Personal is Geopolitical
Horror and grace at the Third Annual Arab Film Festival. (Film - 11/9/2005)

Power Struggles
Meager funding, no-show interviewees, makeshift sound studios—producing independent political documentaries is an uphill battle. But that’s the kind of fight director Dawn Mikkelson likes. (Arts Feature - 11/2/2005)

She Found It at the Movies
Give it up for Georgia Brown, 'Squid' director Noah Baumbach's film-critic mom. (Film - 11/2/2005)

The Pope of Cinema
'Henri Langlois' doesn't just preach to the converted. (Film - 11/2/2005)

We Don't Live Here Anymore
'The Squid and the Whale' swims under the surface of divorce. (Film - 11/2/2005)

Good Night, and Good Luck Dodging the Sniper Fire
Marcel Ophüls on the heroic idealists and cynical mollycoddles of wartime journalism. (Film - 10/26/2005)

Sampling the Merchandise
'Shopgirl' actor-author can't cut the mustard, but licks the jar. (Film - 10/26/2005)

I Believe Charlize!
South African 'North' star convinces even the natives. (Film - 10/19/2005)

Vanity Fare
Oscar awaits an actor's immodest portrayal of the immodest Capote. (Film - 10/19/2005)

Celebrity Journalism
George Clooney's hard look at a chain-smoking muckraker elicits a puff piece. (Film - 10/12/2005)

He Had Me at Hello
A Cameron Crowe fan takes the long, strange trip to 'Elizabethtown.' (Film - 10/12/2005)

We Dine, They Die
'Darwin's Nightmare' calculates the terrible cost of a good meal. (Film - 10/12/2005)

Sweet Sixteen
Beautiful (mostly) and all yours, our sneek peek at the 6th Annual 'Sound Unseen.' (Arts Feature - 10/5/2005)

Wild Men Blues
The tortured artist abuses his privilege in Sound Unseen's painful docs. (Arts Feature - 10/5/2005)

Brighten the Corners
'Everything Is Illuminated' star Eugene Hutz lights up the fair. (Film - 9/28/2005)

Delusions of Grandeur
David Cronenberg's 'History' repeats itself. (Film - 9/28/2005)

Innocence is Bliss
Director Mike Mills thinks like a kid for 'Thumbsucker.' (Film - 9/28/2005)

The Encyclopedist of the Grind House: Tarantino on Film (Film - 9/28/2005)

What Makes Her So Special?
'Flightplan' finds Jodie Foster still dealing with her elevated status. (Film - 9/28/2005)

Getting Into a Tiff
High-Intensity Moviegoing at the Toronto International Film Festival. (Film - 9/21/2005)

The Nightmare Before Marriage
Not even death can part the puppets of 'Tim Burton's Corpse Bride.' (Film - 9/21/2005)

Casualties of War
'Winter Soldier' comes home after 34 years. (Film - 9/14/2005)

Fall Film Events (Film - 9/14/2005)

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