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    REVIEW | Style Wars: Steven Soderbergh's "The Good German"

    by Michael Koresky on December 14, 2006

    It's an odd thing when a contemporary filmmaker apes an outmoded era of cinema. When Quentin Tarantino - whose "Kill Bill" literally lifted chop-socky zooms and cuts for some of its throwbacks - does it, the pastiche is a means of appropriation, to capture the sense of film history as ever-evolving,...

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    REVIEW | Death of a Ladies' Man: Roger Michell's "Venus"

    by Nick Pinkerton on December 13, 2006

    Death be not proud. One hears stories of men on their deathbeds who, lucidity gone, expend their last energy on a vain attempt to masturbate; of Viagra-boosted sex that climaxes in cardiac arrest. This stubbornness of the erotic urge, past physical failing, is the subject of "Venus": Why can't I get...

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    REVIEW | Out of the Past: Isabel Coixet's "The Secret Life of Words"

    by Michael Koresky on December 11, 2006

    Spanish-born writer-director Isabel Coixet treads delicate territory with alternately slippered feet and hammer toes in "The Secret Life of Words," an admirably intimate, character-driven work that burdens itself with more importance than it can ultimately handle. Without spoiling the film's final r...

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    REVIEW | Exit Wounds: Irwin Winkler's "Home of the Brave"

    by Michael Rowin on December 11, 2006

    At the very least, "Home of the Brave" is one for the history books: the first major fiction film about the Iraq War and its effect on those fighting it. Updating "The Best Years of Our Lives" before conflict has reached an end (if there ever is one), this too-earnest drama seeks to realistically po...

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    REVIEW | London Falling: Anthony Minghella's "Breaking and Entering"

    by Indiewire on December 8, 2006

    The kind of movie that makes a pejorative of words like "tasteful" and "intelligent," Anthony Minghella's "Breaking and Entering" arrives just in time to give the faint-hearted a refuge from the untidy pleasures of "Casino Royale" and "Borat." The latest from the director of "The English Patient" is...

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    REVIEW | Half Step: James Ponsoldt's "Off the Black"

    by Nick Pinkerton on December 6, 2006

    There's a lot about "Off the Black" to remind you that it's a directorial debut - the bearded indie-type clerking a small-town convenience store who just screams "director's buddy," for example - but that's not the real problem. Writer/director James Ponsoldt's screenplay never stops reminding us th...

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    REVIEW | Daily Grind: Daniel Burman's "Family Law"

    by Nick Pinkerton on December 5, 2006

    I don't go to the movies looking for modest intentions any more than your average baseball fan goes to the stadium hoping to see some well laid-down bunts, but Daniel Burman's "Family Law" is cause for exception. This story of a thirtyish law professor, Ariel Perelman, (Daniel Hendler), wriggling be...

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    REVIEW | Into the Woods: David Lynch's "Inland Empire"

    by Michael Koresky on December 4, 2006

    Since its wildly anticipated debut screening at this October's New York Film Festival, David Lynch's three-hour, digital-video freefall "Inland Empire" has been both castigated and commended for the same things: its jaggedness, its refusal to give up its secrets, and its merrily incongruous jigsawin...

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    REVIEW | Checking Out: Brad Silberling's "10 Items or Less"

    by Kristi Mitsuda on November 30, 2006

    Brad Silberling's "10 Items or Less" takes its title from the express checkout lane at the grocery store, and refers more particularly here to the aisle manned by Spanish actress Paz Vega as Scarlet in a working-class L.A. neighborhood. To this locale, Morgan Freeman--as himself, or someone like hi...

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    REVIEW | Bad Blood: Thom Fitzgerald's "3 Needles"

    by Kristi Mitsuda on November 27, 2006

    Opening on World AIDS Day, Thom Fitzgerald's "3 Needles" sets itself up as a consciousness raiser from the get-go. Chronicling three stories built around the disease's manifestations across geographic and cultural distances in just over two hours, no wonder the result is reductive--but still, you s...

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