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Review: How to Survive a Plague

In 1987, 26-year-old Peter Staley, a closeted Wall Street trader, was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Given less than two years to live, he addressed the International AIDS Conference . . . three years later. He's still alive.

By: BRETT MICHEL | October 02, 2012

Review: Frankenweenie

Shaggy dog story
Death becomes Tim Burton, whose best films feature corpses or the undead.

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 04, 2012

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Review: Looper

It takes some concentration to follow a plot where flashbacks are flash-forwards and vice versa. Or both. And sometimes flash-sideways.

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 28, 2012

Review: House at the End of the Street

A project that's been around the block, Mark Tonderai's horror thriller was slated to go into production nearly a decade ago, with Jonathan Mostow (Breakdown) attached to direct.

By: BRETT MICHEL | September 25, 2012

Review: Liberal Arts

Multi-hyphenate Josh Radnor (star of How I Met Your Mother ; he writes, stars, and directs here) has undeniable talent behind the camera.

By: JAKE MULLIGAN | September 25, 2012

Review: Stars in Shorts

There are big names galore in this amalgam of short films — Judi Dench, Colin Firth, Keira Knightley, Kenneth Branagh, etc. — and the celebs are having a holiday good time, even when the stories aren't particularly distinguished.

By: GERALD PEARY | September 25, 2012

Review: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

"Just smile and be yourself," advises Charlie's naïve dad. "That's how you make friends in the real world."

By: BRETT MICHEL | September 25, 2012

Review: Vulgaria

"Your attention please," announces a voiceover at the start of the new movie from Pang Ho-Cheung.

By: BRETT MICHEL | September 25, 2012

Review: 10 Years

No one has had a better year than Channing Tatum.

By: JAKE MULLIGAN | September 27, 2012

Review: Backwards

In the press notes, writer/lead actress Sarah Megan Thomas describes her film as "unabashedly mainstream."

By: JAKE MULLIGAN | September 25, 2012

Review: Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel

Legendary Harper's Bazaar fashion editor Diana Vreeland (1903-1989) was the inspiration for both the Maggie Prescott character in 1957's Funny Face and Miss Maxwell in 1966's Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?

By: BRETT MICHEL | September 25, 2012

Review: Hotel Transylvania

Genndy Tartakovsky's crummy cartoon would suck under any circumstances, but its inadequacies are particularly glaring when it comes out the week before Tim Burton's macabre gem, Frankenweenie .

By: PETER KEOUGH | September 28, 2012

Review: Dredd 3D

Slow-mo blow-ups
Johnny Knoxville and his merry band of Jackasses were on to something when they shot their last movie in 3D; their formula of slow-motion + stereoscopic imaging was just about the greatest thing ever.

By: BRETT MICHEL | September 20, 2012

Review: End of Watch

Self-important police drama
Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña aren't exactly corrupt cops in this self-important police drama, they're just fascistic assholes.

By: JAKE MULLIGAN | September 20, 2012

Review: Knuckleball!

Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg's documentary
For a film that's centered around such a silly-looking pitch, Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg's documentary is packed with considerable drama.

By: MICHAEL C. WALSH | September 18, 2012

Review: Step Up to the Plate

Paul Lacoste's French documentary
It's a corny American title for Paul Lacoste's French documentary, Entre les Bras , about the father-and-son chefs, Michel and Sébastien Bras, behind a Michelin three-star restaurant in the L'Aubrac region of France.

By: GERALD PEARY | September 18, 2012

Review: Trouble with the Curve

Bad timing
Are we sure Clint Eastwood wasn't in character at the RNC?

By: JAKE MULLIGAN | September 20, 2012

Review: The Ambassador

Raoul Duke by way of Borat
Mads Cortzen is a diplomat on a mission.

By: BRETT MICHEL | September 18, 2012

Review: For Ellen

A man/child gets a brief taste of adult responsibility
Barely visible in a close-up behind the wheel of his car until the flame from his lighter illuminates his angular profile, floundering rocker Joby Taylor (Paul Dano) promptly spins into a snow bank. It's going to be that kind of trip.

By: BRETT MICHEL | September 18, 2012

Review: Resident Evil: Retribution

Creative bankruptcy
Uwe Boll gets most of the scorn, but has anyone done more to destroy hope of a decent movie being made from a video game than Paul W.S. Anderson?

By: BRETT MICHEL | September 18, 2012

Review: Chicken with Plums

Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi's new film
Many filmmakers have made the transition from animation to live-action, but Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi's new film suggests they're better off going back to the drawing board.

By: JAKE MULLIGAN | September 20, 2012

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