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Download GymBook for AndroidOpening date: 2010-03-05
PG
Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
What’s a Nice Girl Doing in This Hole?
Critic's Pick: N
Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” is busy, garish and periodically amusing.
Opening date: 2010-03-05
R
Reviewed by: A. O. Scott
When Troubled Cops Cross the Thin Blue Line
Critic's Pick: N
“Brooklyn’s Finest” burrows deep into the collective memory of generations of meaty, emotional movies about New York City cops in trouble.
Opening date: 2010-03-05
Reviewed by: A. O. Scott
Outside the Abbey’s Fortified Walls, a World of Fairy Girls and Beasts
Critic's Pick: Y
“The Secret of Kells” conveys the almost sacred magic of color and line.
Opening date: 2010-03-03
NR
Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
Haunted by What Dad Did in the War
Critic's Pick: N
The sins of the father weigh heavily and sometimes scarcely at all in the documentary “Harlan — In the Shadow of ‘Jew Süss.’”
Opening date: 2010-02-26
PG-13
Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
Three Loners on a Road Leading to One Another
Critic's Pick: N
William Hurt, who specializes in playing high-strung, upscale neurotics, brings his formidable skills to “The Yellow Handkerchief.”
Opening date: 2010-02-26
R
Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
Learning to Read, Murder, Survive
Critic's Pick: Y
“A Prophet” is one of those rare films in which the moral stakes are as insistent and thought through as the aesthetic choices.
Opening date: 2010-02-26
NR
Reviewed by: A. O. Scott
On a High School Lacrosse Team, Opposites Attract and Attack
Critic's Pick: Y
The film’s observations about race, class and friendship are clear and accessible without being overly didactic.
Opening date: 2010-02-26
NR
Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
Family Dynamics
Critic's Pick: Y
Kimberly Reed’s compelling documentary, “Prodigal Sons,” is filled with revelations.
Opening date: 2010-02-26
R
Reviewed by: A. O. Scott
The Buddy-Police Recipe: Take Guns, Add Some Wisecracking, Stir
Critic's Pick: N
From time to time, “Cop Out” offers glimpses of the giddy, goofy delight it might have been.
Opening date: 2010-02-26
NR
Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
On the Phone, Alienated and Indulging
Critic's Pick: N
“Easier With Practice” is an intimate drama about a fledgling author with a sensitive soul.
Opening date: 2010-02-26
Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
Manifesto From the Battle for the Barnes Collection
Critic's Pick: N
“The Art of the Steal” is a hard-hitting documentary about a high-cultural brawl.
Opening date: 2010-02-19
PG-13
Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
Writer for Hire Is a Wanted Man
Critic's Pick: Y
With “The Ghost Writer,” Roman Polanski creates a wholly believable world rich in strange contradictions and ominous implications.
Opening date: 2010-02-19
R
Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
The Many Shades of Family Dysfunction
Critic's Pick: N
In “Happy Tears,” the writer and director Mitchell Lichtenstein struggles to find the humor in a host of horrors.
Opening date: 2010-02-19
PG-13
Reviewed by: A. O. Scott
A Town Torn Asunder by Racial Killing in ’70
Critic's Pick: N
Jeb Stuart’s “Blood Done Sign My Name” scrupulously examines a page from the recent history of the South.
Opening date: 2010-02-19
R
Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
Sex and Money and High Rollers (Memories Were Made of This)
Critic's Pick: Y
“The Good Guy” is fresh enough to provide the voyeuristic kick of glimpsing the frenzied lifestyle of aspiring masters of the universe.
Opening date: 2010-02-19
NR
Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
Documenting a Quarrelsome Marriage
Critic's Pick: N
“Phyllis and Harold” is an impossibly self-involved portrait of a union far more commonplace than its offspring seem to believe.
Opening date: 2010-02-19
NR
Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
In an Ever-Changing New York, Falling in Love May Be the Only Constant
Critic's Pick: N
The best thing about “The Last New Yorker” is its evocation of the relentless speed with which the city tears down and rebuilds itself.
Opening date: 2010-02-18
R
Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
All at Sea, Surrounded by Red Herrings
Critic's Pick: N
On "Shutter Island," something TERRIBLE is afoot. Sadly, that something turns out to be the movie itself.
Opening date: 2010-02-17
NR
Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
Mysteries and Hopes Converge on a Shrine
Critic's Pick: N
One of the pleasures of “Lourdes” is that it takes place in the space between the inexplicable (no explanation is possible) and the unexplained.
Opening date: 2010-02-12
Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
The Mobsters of Palermo
Critic's Pick: N
“To Die for Tano” is a bizarre musical comedy in which the actual severed swordfish heads are not the ugliest things on screen.