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Review: I Love You Phillip Morris

Should have been a drama instead
Only in the last half-hour of this film from Glenn Ficarra and John Requa does it click that we're getting the gritty, true tale of king conman Steven Russell (Jim Carrey) and his jailbird lover.
By CHRIS FARAONE | December 07, 2010

Interview: Damon Wayans

Getting silly again
"Right now, my intent is not to offend. I just want to laugh. I want to suspend reality."
By JIM SULLIVAN | February 16, 2010

52 ways to leave 2009

Get your New Year's Eve down to an Auld Lang science.
Your usual lackadaisical approach to New Year's Eve — just see what happens and go with the flow — is not going to cut it this year. Sure, the end of this decade may not have the same kind of new-millennium pressure riding on it as the last one, but the plunge into 2010 is a milestone nonetheless.
By SHAULA CLARK | December 30, 2009

Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol

State-of-the-art technology allows actors to reach new heights of hamminess
Charles Dickens made a mint with readings of A Christmas Carol , but a century and a half of technological progress has not been kind to the property.
By PETER KEOUGH | November 09, 2009

Carnal knowledge

Nick Cave’s bad Bunny
When I interviewed Nick Cave for the Phoenix three years ago and he told me — drolly, languidly, literarily — that his next writing project was about “a sexually incontinent hand-cream salesman” on the south coast of England, I assumed he was taking the piss.
By JAMES PARKER | October 06, 2009

October lite

The outlook is still gloomy, but film finds time for childish things
We expected the vampires, the werewolves, the zombies, and the homicidal maniacs. Same thing with the android doubles, the alien abductors, the sexually abused pregnant teenager, the Apocalypse, and the post-Apocalypse. But kids' movies?
By PETER KEOUGH | September 17, 2009

Review: Fired Up!

Despite its Cheerleader Movie appearance, this is very much a Guy Movie
If you're a guy who's reluctant to view a neutered movie (and despite its Cheerleader Movie appearance, this is very much a Guy Movie), you might want to wait for the unrated DVD.
By BRETT MICHEL | February 25, 2009

Where the wild things are

As our planet edges closer to the apocalypse, the escapist, fantasy world of cryptids is suddenly coming to life
Venture out into the waters and woodlands of New England, and there's a chance you'll bump into "Champ," America's own Loch Ness Monster, who allegedly plies the muddy ripples of Lake Champlain.
By MIKE MILIARD | January 12, 2009

Review: Yes Man

The correct answer is "No"
Once the one-note joke's been established, everything else follows with plodding, mechanical predictability.
By BRETT MICHEL | December 16, 2008

Regifting

Aurelia's Oratorio; All About Christmas Eve; How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical
Aurelia's Oratorio; All About Christmas Eve; How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical
By CAROLYN CLAY | December 12, 2008

Holy multiplicity, Batman!

A Caped-Crusader scorecard
A Caped-Crusader scorecard
By MIKE MILIARD | July 16, 2008

Feign and fortune

The US Air Guitar Championships
McNallica shredded upon nothingness like an unholy hybrid of Mick Mars and a feral burlesque dancer.
By BARRY THOMPSON | June 10, 2008

Horton Hears a Who!

Good-natured, egalitarian, and mildly stupid
Although it scatters a few jokes for adults, some of them earnestly funny, Horton lacks the wit and layered cleverness of the good animated films of recent years.
By JASON O'BRYAN | March 12, 2008

Shaggy frog

Interview: Michel Gondry goes lo-fi
Michel Gondry is not a household name.
By BRETT MICHEL | February 20, 2008

Primary concerns

2008 releases offer campaign reform
The last thing people are looking for when they go to the movies is a reminder of the political crapola they are trying to escape.
By PETER KEOUGH | December 28, 2007

America Blows

Since George W. Bush took office, the United States has sunk to unprecedented lows in sports and pop-culture domination
The United States of America is a nation with a proud history.
By MIKE MILIARD | June 29, 2007

Evan Almighty

The movie of the summer for the timid Christian paranoiacs
Finally, the 21st-century redo of the Oh, God!
By MICHAEL ATKINSON | June 20, 2007

The Number 23

A zero
A flashy, predictable, incomprehensible piece of dreck that can’t even be saved by its fine actors.
By PEG ALOI | February 28, 2007

Fractured fairy tales

Fantasy and reality compete for the box office in 2007
Times are tough when the Dream Factory has a better grip on what’s going on than the people in Washington.
By PETER KEOUGH | December 28, 2006

Stranger than Fiction

Submits to the temptations of clichés and bathos
What’s stranger than fiction? Some might say meta-fiction, the “avant-garde” genre that’s actually older than Don Quixote, in which a work of fiction self-consciously refers to its own artifice. Watch the trailer for Stranger than Fiction (QuickTime)
By PETER KEOUGH | November 10, 2006

Dream job

Michel Gondry is skilled in the science of film
In a recurring scene in Michel Gondry’s La science des rêves , Stéphane (Gael García Bernal), who’s clad in a tight-fitting lavender suit, frantically runs around his “television studio,” its walls constructed from egg cartons, its cameras from cardboard. Watch the trailer for The Science of Sleep (QuickTime)
By BRETT MICHEL | September 22, 2006

Fall back

This season, Hollywood lives in the past
If you cannot remember the past, so Santayana said, you’re condemned to repeat it. Watch trailers for this fall's new releases.
By PETER KEOUGH | September 13, 2006

Only in The Movies

A virtual movie studio gives hope to gamers who really want to direct
The Movies , released by Activision in late 2005, is a video game that lays out a simple, beautiful tool set that empowers its players to create their own films.
By IAN MAISEL | August 11, 2006

Patty Larceny

The career of Patricia Clarkson
When I started off on the "summer of schlubs," I made a couple of rules.
By RYAN STEWART | July 06, 2006

Apocalypse now and then

Doom, damnation, and other summer fun
With Snakes on a Plane and World Trade Center opening on the same day, this summer won’t be offering the usual escapist fare.
By PETER KEOUGH | May 03, 2006