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Public Enemies is fast and furious look at John Dillinger's life and crimes Miami Vice director Michael Mann wisely chooses Johnny Depp for lead role
"They're all about where people come from. Nobody seems to wonder where somebody's going." So says the Depression-era bank-robber-cum-folk-hero... More>>
Published: July 01, 2009
Film Highlight: Whatever Works
Whatever Works is Woody Allen's first New York movie after five years abroad. It's his first in even longer to center on the Woody Allen... More>>
Published: July 01, 2009
My Sister's Keeper is honest only about illness Jason Patric and Cameron Diaz play parents of sick child
Eleven-year-old Anna Fitzgerald's parents didn't just plan for her—they customized her in utero, with the specific end of providing spare... More>>
Published: June 24, 2009
Hot Summer Nights, Cool Movies The summer's best film series
THE 48-HOUR FILM PROJECT Earlier this month, a group of adventurous Minnesota filmmakers was given 48 hours to write, shoot, and edit a short... More>>
Published: June 17, 2009
Outrage documentary exposes closeted conservatives Kirby Dick attempts to out sexual hypocrites in politics
Director Kirby Dick doesn't actually stick his camera under any Capitol Hill bathroom stalls in the new documentary Outrage, but his goal is more... More>>
Published: June 17, 2009
Film Highlight: Food, Inc.
Anyone who has read The Omnivore's Dilemma or Fast Food Nation will experience a strong sense of déjà vu as the film Food, Inc.... More>>
Published: June 17, 2009
Tony Scott's The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 is pointless remake In this subway series, the original wins
Want to know how a city works? Start by watching 1974's The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, a primer in which subway hijackers test how long it... More>>
Published: June 10, 2009
Film Highlight: Lawrence of Arabia
In the early 1960s, Norman Mailer's essay "The White Negro" hit an American cultural phenomenon square on the nose: the alienated white hipster's... More>>
Published: June 10, 2009
The Hangover does Vegas bachelor-party style Todd Phillips's film doesn't have much to say about women
What Fletch was to water-cooler wits in the '80s, what National Lampoon's Van Wilder was to college-bound douches at the dawn of Dubya, that's... More>>
Published: June 03, 2009
Film Highlight: Easy Virtue
Quick! Noel Coward: sage or supercilious bitch? No matter where you stand, Stephan Elliott's deliciously cheeky screen adaptation of one of the... More>>
Published: June 03, 2009
Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell is damned good fun Alison Lohman bears brunt of film's supernatural humiliations
Sam Raimi wants to go home again. Often a drifting virtuoso in the
years before finding his Spider-Man gig, with Drag Me to
Hell Raimi defaults... More>>
Published: May 27, 2009
Film Highlight: Up
First of all, Up is not a movie about a cranky old
coot who, with the help of a roly-poly Boy Scout, finds his inner child
during a series of... More>>
Published: May 27, 2009
Terminator Salvation begs us to save ourselves, but really, just save your $10 Director McG just wants to "re-establish credibility" with moviegoers
Both warning and advertisement, the Terminator films are technophobic teases, selling tickets by promising this decade's new model of killing... More>>
Published: May 20, 2009
Film Highlight: The Brothers Bloom
Writer-director Rian Johnson's movies—first
Brick in 2006, now The Brothers
Bloom—are clever and soulful confabulations.... More>>
Published: May 20, 2009
Ron Howard's Angels & Demons a treat for conspiracy theorists Lead actor Tom Hanks says movie is "not important, but it's fun"
At the tail end of The Da Vinci Code, having traipsed around scenic Paris and London for over two hours to find out whether the Holy Grail was... More>>
Published: May 13, 2009
Film Highlight: Lola Montès
When this Max Ophuls masterpiece was released in Paris in 1955, eager audiences came not only to see the most expensive movie ever made in France... More>>
Published: May 13, 2009
J.J. Abrams's Star Trek will live long and prosper Franchise still going at warp speed decades later
It's difficult for this longtime Trekkie to review J.J. Abrams's relaunching of the U.S.S. Enterprise. It's difficult to dispassionately dole out... More>>
Published: May 06, 2009
Film Highlight: Tulpan
Tulpan, the first feature by Russian ethno-documentarian Sergei Dvortsevoy, winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes, is a fiction founded... More>>
Published: May 06, 2009
Matthew McConaughey is scary bad in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past Waters's film is like a wedding shot by a drunken cousin
Two weeks after jowly Matthew Perry transformed into pretty Zac Efron to relive his adolescence in 17 Again, Warner Bros. releases Ghosts of... More>>
Published: April 29, 2009
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Click here for our rundown of the best arts and entertainment in the Twin Cities.More>>
Published: April 22, 2009
Film Highlight: Sugar
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have transformed some of the most clichéd genres with smarts, non-screechy politics, superb acting, and visual... More>>
Published: April 22, 2009
Russell Crowe saves the day in State of Play Robin Wright Penn plays Ben Affleck's wife in Kevin Macdonald's political thriller
Kevin Macdonald's Washington thriller is a bellows designed to puff up the most beaten-down reporter's chest. Compressed from the highly regarded... More>>
Published: April 15, 2009
Film Highlight: North By Northwest
A breathless example of old-fashioned Hollywood gratification and the blueprint for every "sophisticated" action-adventure series from James Bond... More>>
Published: April 15, 2009
Steve McQueen's excruciating Hunger portrays starving prisoner Watching the Cannes-praised film is both awful and awe-inspring
Established artists who have made mid-career leaps from gallery to movie house have not easily found their footing. Julian Schnabel's first... More>>
Published: April 08, 2009
Film Highlight: Serbis
Filipino director Brillante Mendoza's Serbis is entirely set in and around a candidate for the world's tawdriest movie theater—a dingy hall... More>>
Published: April 08, 2009
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