Movie Reviews

MOVIE REVIEW | 'BRIDESMAIDS' Deflating That Big, Puffy White Gown By MANOHLA DARGIS "Bridesmaids" celebrates the giddy, liberating humor of the writers Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo.  Making 'Bridesmaids'  Profile Article: Kristen Wiig CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK Paris (and Cannes) in the Spring, Through Woody Allen's Eyes By MANOHLA DARGIS The Cannes Film Festival led with Woody Allen's new movie, "Midnight in Paris"; other early screenings have included Julia Leigh's "Sleeping Beauty" and Gus Van Sant's "Restless."   Slide Show | Cannes Coverage on ArtsBeat  More From the Festival MOVIE REVIEW | 'EVERYTHING MUST GO' A Picture Window on a Life Turned Inside Out By A. O. SCOTT "Everything Must Go" adapts and fills in the blanks of the Raymond Carver story "Why Don't You Dance?"  Fledgling Filmmaker Casts Against Type  Movie Overview | Trailers | Rate and Review MOVIE REVIEW | 'L'AMOUR FOU' The Passions and Demons of Yves Saint Laurent By STEPHEN HOLDEN "L'Amour Fou," a documentary about Yves Saint Laurent, the French couturier, narrated by Pierre Bergé, his partner in business and in life.  Saint Laurent's Other Half  Finding a Life's Story in Objects  Movie Overview | Showtimes | Trailers | Rate and Review MOVIE REVIEW | 'CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH' A Tale of Nanjing Atrocities That Spares No Brutal Detail By MANOHLA DARGIS "City of Life and Death" portrays the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians tortured and killed during the mass butchery known as the Rape of Nanjing.  Movie Overview | Showtimes | Trailers | Rate and Review MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE BIG BANG' A Taste for Psychedelics and the God Particle By STEPHEN HOLDEN "The Big Bang" carries film noir parody into particle physics territory to try to solve the mystery to end all mysteries.  A Director Is Born  Movie Overview | Showtimes | Trailers | Rate and Review MOVIE REVIEW | 'A SERBIAN FILM' Torture or Porn? No Need to Choose By A. O. SCOTT "A Serbian Film," directed by Srdjan Spasojevic, doesn't just push the envelope of the extreme-cinema niche, it shreds it.  So Scandalous a Prosecutor Took Notice  Movie Overview | Showtimes | Trailers | Rate and Review MOVIE REVIEW | 'HESHER' Burn This, Curse That, Wreak Your Havoc By STEPHEN HOLDEN Spencer Susser's "Hesher" stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a tattooed, profanity-spewing, heavy-metal life force. And guess what? He has lessons to teach.   Interview: Spencer Susser  Movie Overview | Showtimes | Trailers | Rate and Review