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‘Armadillo’: Danish Troops in Afghanistan - Review
This documentary follows troops in Helmand Province in Afghanistan into a firefight and its aftermath.
April 14, 2011
‘The Conspirator,’ Directed by Robert Redford - Review
“The Conspirator,” Robert Redford’s latest turn as director, imagines the path of justice in the aftermath of Lincoln’s assassination.
April 14, 2011
Sidney Lumet, Urban Realist With a Humanist Side
Looking back on the New York films of Sidney Lumet, who died April 9, we may miss their present-tense urgency and journalistic clarity.
April 13, 2011
‘Arthur,’ With Russell Brand, Helen Mirren - Review
A remake of the 1981 comedy “Arthur” stars Russell Brand in the Dudley Moore role of the boozy billionaire.
April 8, 2011
‘Meek’s Cutoff,’ Directed by Kelly Reichardt - Review
Michelle Williams portrays a member of a pioneer family crossing Oregon Territory in “Meek’s Cutoff,” directed by Kelly Reichardt.
April 8, 2011MOVIE REVIEW | 'BLANK CITY'; That '80s Moment When Nothing And (Almost) Everything Mattered
Céline Danhier's ''Blank City'' uses conventional documentary methods -- talking-head reminiscences intercut with clips from the archives -- to explore the work of a group of aggressively anticonventional artists. This is not a criticism. The movie is about the iconoclastic filmmakers clustered in the East Village and Lower East Side of Manhattan in the late 1970s and early '80s. The chaotic, fast-moving, hazily remembered scene they created deserves and benefits from the scholarly consideratio...
April 6, 2011CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; Belligerent and Boozy, and That's Just the Audience
DETROIT -- Charlie Sheen chose Detroit as the starting point for his ''My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat Is Not an Option'' live performance tour. Before his show at the Fox Theater here on Saturday night you could speculate on a metaphorical link between the city and the star: phoenix rising from the ashes or shattered wreck of former glory. Either one might have seemed appropriate. As it happened, Mr. Sheen and Detroit proved to be a disastrous match. The Fox, a lavishly ornamented, carefull...
April 4, 2011Chorus of Boos at Sheen Show in Detroit
Charlie Sheen took the stage at the Fox Theater in Detroit for the first stop on his "Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat Is Not an Option" tour.
April 03, 2011MOVIE REVIEW | 'IN A BETTER WORLD'; A Do-Gooder Vision Clouded by Blind Spots
''In a Better World,'' directed by the Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier and written by Anders Thomas Jensen, is an elegant, somber scourge for the guilty conscience of the affluent, liberal West. Or, to put it another way, ''In a Better World'' is the winner of the 2011 Academy Award for best foreign language film. I'm not trying to be glib -- well, maybe a little -- but rather to put my finger on the merits and limitations of this ethically serious, aesthetically graceful and curiously bloodless ...
April 1, 2011MOVIE REVIEW | 'HOP'; Bunny Doesn't Want to Work, Just Wants to Bang the Drum All Day
''It was better than 'Alvin and the Chipmunks.' '' I don't think I can improve on that assessment -- delivered by my son in the wake of a Saturday morning sneak-preview screening of ''Hop'' -- and I certainly can't contradict it. Connoisseurs of the school of cinema in which fuzzy animated creatures interact with hard-working, slightly desperate-looking human actors may find themselves, if not exactly delighted, then at least pleasantly tickled. The rest of us, who endure such movies in the nam...
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