domingo, 17 de julio de 2011

Movie Reviews

Leading Man, Miles Beyond the Boy Band

By JONAH WEINER

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Justin Timberlake with Mila Kunis in “Friends With Benefits.”

Justin Timberlake has morphed from a boy-band singer to a solo pop star to a lead actor in two major screen comedies this summer.

Slide Show: A Career in Sync

Summer Movies: Some Have a Blast

By A. O. SCOTT and MANOHLA DARGIS

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“Transformers: Dark of the Moon” is one of the big-budget movies released by a major studio this summer.

Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott answer reader questions about summer blockbuster movies.

New Angle on an Oft-Visited Nightmare

By SYLVIANE GOLD

With his film version of “Sarah’s Key,” Gilles Paquet-Brenner hopes he is presenting a side of the Occupation rarely discussed in France.

MAGAZINE PREVIEW

Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding

By KATRINA ONSTAD

She is the most honest, uninhibited ﬁlmmaker of our time. Or: She’s twee, precious and maddening. Discuss. Nicely.

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Herbert Marshall with Jeanne Eagels in “The Letter” (1929), seven months before her death. Few of Eagels's filmed performances remain.

A Tragic Actress’s Twilight, Burning, Not Dimming

By DAVE KEHR

“The Letter” (1929) featured Jeanne Eagels, who influenced Bette Davis (the remake’s star). “Zazie Dans le Métro” was Louis Malle’s nod to the New Wave.

Movie Reviews

MOVIE REVIEW | 'HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2'

Class Dismissed

By MANOHLA DARGIS

Childhood ends with tears and howls and swirls of smoke, the shock of mortality and bittersweet smiles in the grave, deeply satisfying final movie in the “Harry Potter” series.

MOVIE REVIEW | 'TABLOID'

Joyce Mckinney, the subject of the documentary

Was It Love? The ‘Manacled Mormon’ and His Kinky Weekend

By A. O. SCOTT

“Tabloid” revisits the case of the “Manacled Mormon,” which offered good, clean, dirty fun.

MOVIE REVIEW | 'LIFE, ABOVE ALL'

Keaobaka Makanyane, left, and Khomotso Manyaka play best friends near Johannesburg in the drama “Life, Above All.”

Burdened in a Ravaged South Africa

By MANOHLA DARGIS

“Life, Above All” traces the tribulations of a 12-year-old overburdened with responsibilities in a South Africa racked with AIDS.

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MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE CHAMELEON'

Marc-André Grondin, left, and Nick Stahl in “The Chameleon.”

A ‘Who Is It?’ More Than a Whodunit

By STEPHEN HOLDEN

“The Chameleon” is based on the story of a French-born serial impostor and master of disguise who assumed scores of identities, especially those of missing teenagers.

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MOVIE REVIEW | 'WINNIE THE POOH'

Tigger, Kanga, Roo, Owl, Rabbit, Winnie the Pooh and Eeyore in “Winnie the Pooh,” in which the pitfalls of language usage drive the plot (as Pooh, of course, still searches for honey).

Hundred Acre Gang Is Back in Town

By A. O. SCOTT

This “Winnie the Pooh” has no bells and whistles: it is comfortable with itself and confident in its ability to amuse and beguile young viewers.

MOVIE REVIEW | 'SNOW FLOWER AND THE SECRET FAN'

Li Bingbing, left, and Gianna Jun in “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan,” based on a best-selling novel by Lisa See.

Ties That Bind: Life-Sustaining Friendships Transcending Life’s Brutalities

By MANOHLA DARGIS

“Snow Flower and the Secret Fan,” a movie based on the Lisa See book, explores foot binding and the relationships of two pairs of women during two periods of history.

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MOVIE REVIEW | 'SALVATION BOULEVARD'

An Evangelist, an Atheist and an Act That Tests Faith

By A. O. SCOTT

The accidental shooting of an atheist professor puts a former Deadhead turned man of faith at odds with his church.

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MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE TREE'

Morgana Davies as a girl who hears her late father's voice in a Moreton Bay fig in Julie Bertuccelli's film “The Tree.”

A Tree That Shelters Animal Life and Maybe Even a Dead Parent

By STEPHEN HOLDEN

In “The Tree,” a Moreton Bay fig serves as title character and all-purpose metaphor.

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MOVIE REVIEW | 'DAYLIGHT'

Alexandra Meierhans and Michael Godere, as a hitchhiker, in “Daylight,” a psychological thriller directed by David Barker.

A Kidnap Thriller Cuts It Close

By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS

“Daylight” is an unusually delicate psychological thriller and kidnap drama that favors suggestion over exposition.

The Hot List

The John Lautner house in Los Angeles known as the Chemosphere, which appeared in Brian De Palma's “Body Double.”

A House Tour for Cinephiles

By MANOHLA DARGIS

Manohla Dargis plans to take in the celebration of the centenary of the architect John Lautner, some of whose homes became movie sets.

Catherine Demongeot as the title character in the 1960 film “Zazie Dans le Métro.”

A Few Hours for the Best of Youth

By A. O. SCOTT

Summer may (finally) provide a few hours for an old inspiration: the nonlinear, anti-rational “Zazie Dans le Métro,” Louis Malle’s film from 1960.

From left, Jessica Chastain, Tye Sheridan, Laramie Eppler, Hunter McCracken and Brad Pitt as the O'Brien family in 1950s Texas in Terrence Malick's film “The Tree of Life.”

Authority, From God to Dad

By STEPHEN HOLDEN

Stephen Holden writes that Terrence Malick’s film “The Tree of Life” shows a patriarchal heirarchy and an ambiguous look at religious faith.

News & Features

Bittersweet Feeling Among Fans Awaiting Final ‘Harry Potter’ Film

By MATT FLEGENHEIMER

Harry Potter fans lined up for the opening of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2,” marking the end of a 13-year saga.

Left, the Winnie the Pooh character from 2007, and the one from the movie opening Friday.

The Real Winnie the Pooh Returns to the Hundred Acre Wood

By BROOKS BARNES

After a decline in merchandise sales, Disney is returning to Winnie the Pooh’s hand-drawn look that was abandoned in 2007 for slick Pixar-style animation.

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Asked & Answered | Errol Morris

By ABBY AGUIRRE

The Moment sat down with Morris in SoHo to discuss his mad meditation on obsession, hysteria and the tabloid rag.

A Film Festival Revisits an Audience’s Outcry

By JONATHAN CURIEL

The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival in 2009 was blindsided by an uproar over a documentary. Now it is exploring the issues raised.

In “A Clockwork Orange,” Malcolm McDowell's character was forced to watch movies without blinking.

What You See Is What You Get

By MANOHLA DARGIS

Why are difficult movies so, um, difficult? Maybe the fault lies not in our tastes, but in our eyes.

CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK

A Flying Giselle, Coming Right at You

By ALASTAIR MACAULAY

The latest of the “Giselle” movies, this time in 3-D, stars Natalia Osipova and Leonid Sarafanov at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg.

Netflix Raises Price of DVD and Online Movies Package by 60%

By BRIAN STELTER and SAM GROBART

Netflix advertised the change as a new choice for consumers, but thousands of the company’s customers complained online.

Roberts Blossom, Quirky Character Actor, Dies at 87

By WILLIAM GRIMES

Mr. Blossom played a great many curmudgeons but may be best recalled for his turn as the surprisingly sweet Old Man Marley in “Home Alone.”

Chris Evans in “Captain America: The First Avenger.”

Star-Spangled and Searching His Own Psyche

By DAVE ITZKOFF

The actor Chris Evans plunged into a period of introspection when he was offered the title role in “Captain America: The First Avenger.”

Slide Show: The Films of Chris Evans

Comic books, figurines and action figures crowd Tsui Hark’s Hong Kong office.

Bringing a Wealth of Cinematic Knowledge to the Screen in 3-D

By JOYCE HOR-CHUNG LAU

A martial-arts theme got the modern treatment from the Hong Kong filmmaker Tsui Hark.

BOOKS OF THE TIMES

‘Shock Value’

By JASON ZINOMAN
Reviewed by TY BURR

“Shock Value” tells the story of how the seminal shockers of the late 1960s and early ’70s came to be and how a handful of films and filmmakers brought the scary horror movies back to life.