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Tom Hooper's film looks like an Oscar winner

Speech impediments?
Given the change in political attitudes after the election of Barack Obama, a reactionary backlash following last year's progressive Oscars - in which Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win Best Director - might be no surprise. But who knew the Academy would get this fuddy-duddy?
By PETER KEOUGH | February 25, 2011

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Review: The Way Back

Peter Weir gets a lift out of prison
Peter Weir gets a lift out of prison
By BETSY SHERMAN | February 24, 2011

Oscar nominee predictions 2011: Social anxiety

Oscar looks back, turns inward
Last year's Oscar program had a celebratory feeling about it that's not always associated with the most watched ceremony in the world.
By PETER KEOUGH | February 24, 2011

Review: The King's Speech

Royal flush
Given that England's George III ran around pissing blue from porphyry, his great-great-great grandson, George VI, got off pretty easy with just a stutter.
By PETER KEOUGH | February 24, 2011

Oscar predictions 2010

With 10 Best Picture noms, is Oscar up in the air? Our critic predicts.
After years of shrinking audiences and low-grossing Best Picture nominees, the Academy this year is hedging its bets.
By PETER KEOUGH | January 29, 2010

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Review: A Single Man

Colin Firth stands alone
Christopher Isherwood published his novel about a middle-aged homosexual grieving for a lost lover, the frank depiction of gay desire scandalized some readers.
By PETER KEOUGH | December 22, 2009

Review: St. Trinians

Earns a passing a grade
Some out-of-work A-list British actors end up at Hogwarts. Others must settle for St. Trinian’s.
By PETER KEOUGH | October 15, 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

Mamma Mia!

Passable, frothy fun
The Abba musical, helmed by stage director Phyllida Lloyd, sails to a real Greek island with its fairy-tale aura intact.
By BETSY SHERMAN | July 16, 2008

When Did You Last See Your Father?

Much more than a Lifetime Movie for Men
Director Anand Tucker's focus on compromise and memory over pre-fab, end-of-life resolutions is realistic and powerful.
By CHRIS WANGLER | June 11, 2008

Then She Found Me

Overplotted pregnancy flick
Helen Hunt bites off more than she can chomp on, choosing also to star in this her first try as a film director, a clumsy, overplotted rendition of Elinor Lipman’s 1990 novel.
By GERALD PEARY | April 30, 2008

Masterpieces and mysteries

‘The Complete Jane Austen’ on WGBH, and making book on the Austen detectives
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that there cannot be too many Jane Austen adaptations for film and television.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | January 14, 2008

The Austen adaptations

By JEFFREY GANTZ | January 09, 2008

Bogus Bess

Elizabeth: The Golden Age is leaden
“History,” Winston Churchill told us, “is written by the victors.”
By JEFFREY GANTZ | October 10, 2007

The Last Legion

A load of poppycock
The battle scenes look ho-hum in the wake of 300 , as director Doug Lefler sticks stolidly to the old school.
By TOM MEEK | August 22, 2007

Jane II

The further adventures of Austen wanna-bes
No sooner had I finished last week’s review than Shannon Hale’s Austenland turned up on my desk.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | May 29, 2007

No plain Jane

PBS's hot Bronte
Every generation leaves its fingerprints on Jane Eyre .
By JUSTINE ELIAS | January 17, 2007

Nanny McPhee

This sweet confection stars Emma Thompson (who also wrote the screenplay, adapting the Nurse Matilda children’s books) as the magical nanny who descends on a brood of unruly motherless British children and ever-so-gently teaches them to behave.
By BROOKE HOLGERSON | January 25, 2006