What’s bad about women behaving badly in film?
Maybe it’s OK that Cameron Diaz’s character is so awful in Bad Teacher.
John Turturro
The director of Passione talks about directing himself, appearing in three Transformers films and the sequels to The Big Lebowski and Barton Fink that might happen.
Eugene: The cafeteria from Animal House
We don’t recommend you do your own impression of a zit at the Erb Memorial Union Fish Bowl. Actually, we don’t recommend you repeat anything from Animal House at the University Of Oregon, a.k.a. Faber College.
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Eugene: The cafeteria from Animal House
Recent Film Reviews
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Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
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Has Michael Bay been listening to his critics? All signs point to "yes."
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Aurora
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Cristi Puiu's follow-up to The Death Of Mr. Lazarescu tracks the slow lead-up to murder.
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Cars 2
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Pixar hitches its wagon to Larry The Cable Guy, and ends its long winning streak in the process.
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Bad Teacher
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Cameron Diaz delights in playing an irredeemable junior-high schoolteacher in this raunchy comedy.
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Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop
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A documentary finds backstage drama on Conan’s “Legally Prohibited From Being Funny On Television” tour.
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Passione
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Director John Turturro’s love letter to Neapolitan music provides an abundance of songs and a paucity of context.
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A Better Life
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The director of Twilight: New Moon makes his Bicycle Thieves. (It’s better than it sounds.)
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Leap Year
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Not to be confused with the Amy Adams rom-com, this Mexican drama explores a lonely writer’s disturbing proclivities.
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The Names Of Love
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From France, a romantic comedy done right.
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A Love Affair Of Sorts
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The Flip camera is dead. Hopefully, that means movies made on the Flip camera are dead, too.
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The Best And The Brightest
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What begins as a promising send-up of elitist Manhattan elementary schools goes drastically off course.
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General Orders No. 9
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An experimental documentary explores the altered landscape of the American South.
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Green Lantern
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Superhero movies are popular right now. Here’s another one.
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Page One: A Year Inside The New York Times
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As the media landscape changes drastically, the world’s most esteemed newspaper tries to change with it.
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Mr. Popper’s Penguins
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Jim Carrey improvises with half-real/half-animated penguins in a comedy strictly for those who might find that concept enticing
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The Art Of Getting By
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An insufferable protagonist dooms this modern-day Ferris Bueller.
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Battle For Brooklyn
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Corporate and grassroots forces collide over the Atlantic Yards project.
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Buck
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The man who inspired The Horse Whisperer helps problem horses cope with people problems.
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Kidnapped
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Only an absence of novelty holds back this crackling home invasion thriller from Spain.
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Super 8
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J.J. Abrams does his best Spielberg impression in this sci-fi thriller about… something.
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The Trip
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Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon exchange impressions and insults in this rollicking drive through northern England.
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Road To Nowhere
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The director of Two-Lane Blacktop has lost none of his iconoclasm four decades later.
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Judy Moody And The Not Bummer Summer
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Now girls have their own Diary Of A Wimpy Kid. Hooray?
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Just Like Us
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Director/comic Ahmed Ahmed leads a band of comedians on a tour through the Middle East.
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Viva Riva!
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A Congolese Scarface hits all the right exploitation-movie buttons.
Recent DVD Reviews
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Hearts Of The West
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Jeff Bridges, Andy Griffith and Alan Arkin star in this charming, forgotten ’70s Western.
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Raffaello Matarazzo’s Runaway Melodramas
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A new box set offers Italy’s answer to Douglas Sirk.
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DVDs In Brief: June 29, 2011
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Our weekly DVD review round-up.
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The Baby
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Three deranged women keep a grown man as an infant in a 1972 curio that’s every bit as disturbing as it sounds.
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DVDs In Brief: June 22, 2011
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Our weekly DVD review round-up.
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Billy Madison / Happy Gilmore
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Adam Sandler’s first two comedies show his finding his “voice,” then modifying it a little.
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The Makioka Sisters
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Kon Ichikawa’s late-period prestige drama concerns four siblings’ varied responses to changing times.
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Park Row
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Sam Fuller self-financed this two-fisted 1952 film about the newspaper business in 1880s New York.
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DVDs In Brief: June 15, 2011
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Our weekly DVD review round-up.
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Green Lantern: Emerald Knights
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An animated, straight-to-DVD comic book adaptation gets inside the Green Lantern mythos.
Film newswire
- Bryan Cranston brought in to Bryan Cranston up Ben Affleck's political thriller
- Yes, there could be a Party Down movie, and they already have an opening scene in mind
- Kevin Smith will get some help distributing Red State, not that he needs it
- There are now two more Whitey Bulger movies in the works
- Shia LaBeouf is still saying stuff that Megan Fox probably wishes he wouldn't
- Thomas Jane fired from Sylvester Stallone movie for being white and having a big dick, says Thomas Jane
- G.I. Joe sequel now has RZA
- One of those Frankenstein movies now stars Haley Joel Osment
- Ben Affleck casts Ben Affleck in Ben Affleck film
- Clint Eastwood still doing A Star Is Born with Beyoncé, now possibly with Leonardo DiCaprio
- Michael Bay demands that the nation's projectionists help him save 3-D
- Behold, The A.V. Club podcast returns Friday with a new name and new format
- Monty Python bringing Graham Chapman back from the dead in 3-D
- Christopher Meloni also joins Man Of Steel
- Tom Hanks says Toy Story 4 is in the works
- The Coen Brothers' new film may take on the Greenwich Village folk scene
- Warner Bros. will give you another chance to appreciate Green Lantern
- Weekend Box Office: Larry The Cable Guy, America's Sweetheart
- For no real reason, here's a photo of The Rock riding Splash Mountain
- Black Swan writer's Facebook thriller is like Black Swan meets The Social Network, except not really
- You will be able to smell Spy Kids 4
- R.I.P. Peter Falk
- Will Smith summons Emma Thompson to craft Annie remake for his precious daughter
- No, Connecticut theater won't refund your money because you think Tree Of Life is boring
- MGM boots up a WarGames remake
Film Features
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Scenic Routes
Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41From the top: An opening credits sequence that makes its running time count.
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Interview
Michael WinterbottomThe prolific director talks about working with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon—again—on The Trip.
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Memory Wipe
Science fiction for kids (Short Circuit 2, *Batteries Not Included, Flight Of The Navigator)How do some fondly remembered kid-targeted bits of sci-fi hold up?
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Primer
Robert AltmanFrom documentaries to TV to filmed plays to ’70s classics to late-career masterpieces, Robert Altman did it all
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Secret Cinema
Gas-s-s-sNew column: Let’s talk about the films no one’s talking about. First up, Roger Corman’s 1971 hippie apocalypse Gas-s-s-s.
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Random Roles
John Michael HigginsThe character actor in Christopher Guest films and many others talks about his “functionary” roles, his Navy-brat history, and his casual sing-along parties with Jane Lynch and others.
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My Year Of Flops
In The Mood For Lovesickness Case File #191: My Blueberry NightsFew noticed when one of the most acclaimed directors in the world made his debut with a wafer-light romance. Should they have paid more attention?
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Tolerability Index
June 22, 2011A guide to what we’re barely putting up with this week.
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Random Roles
Malcolm McDowellMalcolm McDowell reflects on a career that stretches from If… and A Clockwork Orange to Heroes.
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Films That Time Forgot
Films That Time Forgot: Doc Savage: The Man Of Bronze (1975)A famed pulp hero got a '70s movie adaptation he never deserved.
Portland: The Shining hotel
Cinema’s creepiest hotel is actually fairly cozy.