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Movie Review | 'The Exploding Girl': Zoe Kazan and Mark Rendall in a Minefield of Emotions

Ivy (Zoe Kazan), present in virtually every frame of “The Exploding Girl,” Bradley Rust Gray’s sweet and tentative new film, is home from college for the summer, back in a New York suffused with leafy green in the daytime and red neon at night. Her ...

From A. O. SCOTT, The New York Times,  11 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Zoe Kazan,  Bradley Rust Gray,  Meryl Streep,  Leonardo DiCaprio

Movie Review | 'Green Zone': Matt Damon Searches for That Casualty of War, Truth

“We’re here to do a job,” says an American soldier in Baghdad, about a month after the United States-led invasion of Iraq and a third of the way into “Green Zone,” Paul Greengrass’s breakneck tour of street-level mayhem and official deceit. “The ...

From A. O. SCOTT, The New York Times,  11 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Judith Miller,  Paul Greengrass,  Matt Damon,  Kathryn Bigelow,  Saddam Hussein

Movie Review | 'The Secret of Kells': Outside the Abbey’s Fortified Walls, a World of Fairy Girls and Beasts

There is a lot to look at in “The Secret of Kells.” Nearly every frame of this 75-minute animated feature is dense with curlicued and cross-hatched patterns and figures. Your eye travels over Celtic crosses and through forest glades, studies ...

From A. O. SCOTT, The New York Times,  4 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Brendan Gleeson,  Tomm Moore

Film: Huge Film, Small Film: Big Stakes

VERY soon now, whatever suspense remains in this Oscar season will be over. Bullock or Streep? “Avatar” or “Hurt Locker”? All will be revealed. Will you be watching? The stars, the films, the analysis. Full coverage of the new awards season. That ...

From A. O. SCOTT, The New York Times,  4 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Steve Martin

On a High School Lacrosse Team, Opposites Attract and Attack

If “Toe to Toe” were a young-adult novel, it would be embraced and argued about in classrooms and eagerly read by thoughtful teenage girls. The film’s observations about race, class and friendship are clear and accessible without being overly didactic, ...

From A. O. SCOTT, The New York Times,  25 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Emily Abt,  Leslie Uggams

Movie Review | 'Cop Out': The Buddy-Police Recipe: Take Guns, Add Some Wisecracking, Stir

Jimmy and Paul are a carefully mismatched pair of New York City detectives who have endured nine years of partnership, which should put the ordeal of anyone who buys a ticket to “Cop Out” in some perspective. You will spend less than two hours in their ...

From A. O. SCOTT, The New York Times,  25 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Tracy Morgan,  Bruce Willis,  Seann William Scott,  Michelle Trachtenberg,  Guillermo Diaz

Film: That Unmistakable Streepness

FROM the moment it was announced on Feb. 2, Meryl Streep’s 16th Oscar nomination best performance by an actress in a leading role for “Julie & Julia,” in case your attention has been otherwise occupied seemed both richly merited and a bit redundant. Of ...

From A. O. SCOTT, The New York Times,  19 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Meryl Streep,  Alan J. Pakula,  Isabelle Huppert,  Julia Child,  John Fowles

Short in Time, Long on Wit and Daring

“In small proportions we just beauties see,” wrote Ben Jonson, the Elizabethan poet. “And in short measures life may perfect be.” Short films may lack the scale and sweep of their feature-length siblings, but the best of them offer a Jonsonesque ...

From A. O. SCOTT, The New York Times,  19 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Ben Jonson,  Nick Park

A Town Torn Asunder by Racial Killing in ’70

Jeb Stuart’s “Blood Done Sign My Name” scrupulously examines a page from the recent history of the South — a racially charged murder that took place in Oxford, N.C., in 1970. The details of the case resemble those of many similar events that took place ...

From A. O. SCOTT, The New York Times,  18 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Jeb Stuart,  John Hope Franklin

Don’t Think of It as Another Film Festival, Think of It as a Sampler

Berlin is wrapping up. Cannes looms on the horizon, and the rest of the calendar is stuffed with more film festivals than even the most dedicated frequent-flying cinemaniac could list, much less attend. But for the last 10 years Film Comment Selects, ...

From A. O. SCOTT, The New York Times,  18 Feb 2010

Related Topics: Film Comment,  Hong Sang-soo,  Film Society of Lincoln Center,  Elia Suleiman,  Walter Reade Theater

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