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Movie Reviews MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE HELP' 'The Maids' Now Have Their Say By MANOHLA DARGIS "The Help," Tate Taylor's movie set in civil-rights-era Mississippi, shifts between black maids and their employers.  Arts & Leisure: Black-and-White Struggle With a Rosy Glow   Video: On Race and Hollywood MOVIE REVIEW | 'SENNA' A Spectacular Rise and Fall By STEPHEN HOLDEN "Senna," Asif Kapadia's documentary on the Brazilian racecar driver Ayrton Senna, includes racing footage that is frequently heart-stopping.   Anatomy of a Scene MOVIE REVIEW | 'GLEE: THE 3D CONCERT MOVIE' A Tutorial on Tolerance, With Beats and Upbeats By STEPHEN HOLDEN "Glee: The 3D Concert Movie" notes just how terrific it is to be yourself. MOVIE REVIEW | '3O MINUTES OR LESS' Menu for Trouble: Pizza, a Stripper and Slackers With Weapons By MANOHLA DARGIS In "3o Minutes or Less" Jesse Eisenberg plays a pizza delivery man forced into a bank heist by a couple of slackers. It's supposed to be a comedy. MOVIE REVIEW | 'SCHEHERAZADE, TELL ME A STORY' A TV Host Seeks Fluff, but Real Life Intrudes By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS Yousry Nasrallah's "Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story" resets "The Arabian Nights" in modern-day Cairo. MOVIE REVIEW | 'OVER YOUR CITIES GRASS WILL GROW' Touring an Artist's Pre-Apocalyptic Realm By MANOHLA DARGIS Sophie Fiennes's film "Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow" is a portrait of the painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer at work and an exploration of the artistic compound he created in France.  Following an Artist Into His Labyrinth MOVIE REVIEW | 'DAMN!' A Brush With Internet Fame By NEIL GENZLINGER "Damn!" is more than just a documentary about a quirky New York gubernatorial candidate. Movie Review | 'Aarakshan': A Battle for India's Soul Movie Review | 'The Boy Mir': The Teenage Years in the Tumult of Afghanistan Movie Review | 'Littlerock': Young Tourists Marooned in a California Town Movie Review | 'Final Destination 5': Death Will Not Be Cheated Movie Review | 'Bad Posture': Outsiders in Albuquerque Movie Review | 'Darwin': A Town Built for 30 News & Features All the Editors That Are Fit to Spoof By KEVIN FLYNN The musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" continues the fictive depiction of the hard-boiled editor, sometimes played as an all-bark, no-bite softie and other times as an incorrigible schemer. ARTS & LEISURE Black-and-White Struggle With a Rosy Glow By NELSON GEORGE All manner of documentary and feature films have tried to illuminate the civil rights era. An adaptation of "The Help," a best-selling novel, is just the latest cinematic endeavor. ARTS & LEISURE The Good, the Bad, Not the Ugly By MANOHLA DARGIS and A. O. SCOTT The New York Times's chief film critics take on readers' questions about stars. Achoos of Death Are Film's Scourge By MICHAEL CIEPLY In "Contagion," a forthcoming film by Steven Soderbergh, the world is beset by a deadly plague of flu.   Trailer: 'Contagion' DVD Desert Tales, Centuries Apart By DAVE KEHR Newly restored on DVD, "The Egyptian," directed by Michael Curtiz, stars Michael Wilding in an epic CinemaScopic yarn about the court of a forward-looking pharaoh.

Photos & Video VIDEO: Critics' Picks: 'MASH' A. O. Scott looks back at Robert Altman's irreverent film about an army hospital near the front lines in the Korean War.  Movie Overview |  Comment VIDEO: On Race and Hollywood Nelson George discusses the ways American movies portray race relations during the struggle for civil rights.  Movie Review: 'The Help'  Hollywood and the Civil Rights Era VIDEO: Anatomy of a Scene: 'Senna' Asif Kapadia, the director of the documentary "Senna," narrates a racing scene from the film. Showtimes & Tickets Enter Title and/orEnter Zip Code  Go to Showtimes & Tickets » Box Office Top 5 Rise of the Planet of the Apes The Smurfs Cowboys & Aliens The Change-Up Captain America: The First Avenger Go to Box Office » Editor FeedBack Thanks for taking the time to read this e-mail. Feel free to send feedback; I enjoy hearing your opinions and will do my best to respond. Mekado MurphyMovies Producer The New York Times on the Web Coming Soon  Conan the Barbarian  Fright Night  Don't Be Afraid of the Dark Go to Coming Soon » Times Pulse The most popular movies among NYTimes.com readers. The Help 30 Minutes or Less Senna Rise of the Planet of the Apes Glee: The 3D Concert Movie Go to Times Pulse »

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Movie Reviews MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE INTERRUPTERS' Confronting a Plague of Violence By MANOHLA DARGIS "The Interrupters," a documentary by Steve James, takes a look at a gutsy, activist component of the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention.   Exclusive Clip: 'The Interrupters' MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE FUTURE' Is That All There Is? Milking Life for More By A. O. SCOTT The fears and frustrations that shadow us on our awkward trip through the life cycle often feel enormous, and "The Future" elevates them to something metaphysical and wondrous.   Anatomy of a Scene ADVERTISEMENT MOVIE REVIEW | 'COWBOYS & ALIENS' Extraterrestrials Land at the O.K. Corral By MANOHLA DARGIS In "Cowboys & Aliens," Daniel Craig rides into the New Mexico Territory and wrangles extraterrestrials that look like cousins of the monsters from the "Alien" films.  Look Past the Beauty of Olivia Wilde, If You Can MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE GUARD' Mismatched Partners in a Crime Comedy By MANOHLA DARGIS In "The Guard" Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle are reluctant crime-fighting buddies.  Buddy-Cop Banter With a Brogue MOVIE REVIEW | 'CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE' What's a Guy to Do if His Wife Cheats on Him? Head to the Mall By A. O. SCOTT "Crazy, Stupid, Love," packed with appealing stars, is essentially a study in the varieties of masculine sexual confusion. MOVIE REVIEW | 'THE DEVIL'S DOUBLE' Straight From Uday Hussein's Inner Circle By A. O. SCOTT "The Devil's Double," a slick, English-language excursion into Saddam Hussein's Iraq, might seem either timely or insensitive, given the uprisings in the Middle East.  Stepping Into the Shoes of a Psychopath MOVIE REVIEW | 'TRUE ADOLESCENTS' Great Outdoors Beckons as a Test of Manhood By STEPHEN HOLDEN Mark Duplass stars in Craig Johnson's film "True Adolescents," which explores the sexual discomfort of boys and men not entirely secure in their masculinity. MOVIE REVIEW | 'POINT BLANK' It's Paris, and Everyone Is Rotten but the Man Chased by the Police By STEPHEN HOLDEN "Point Blank" is a French thriller involving cops, gangsters, a kidnapping and a breakneck chase. MOVIE REVIEW | 'ATTACK THE BLOCK' Inner City vs. Outer Space By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS Joe Cornish's comedic "Attack the Block" considers the chance of an alien invasion in South London.  Aliens in the 'Hood MORE REVIEWS Movie Review | 'Good Neighbors': The Local Serial Killer Movie Review | 'All She Can': Powerlifting as Escape Movie Review | 'Golf in the Kingdom': Fellowship of the Links Movie Review | 'Life in a Day': The World as YouTube Knows It Movie Review | 'Where the Road Meets the Sun': Paths That Cross in Los Angeles Movie Review | 'Sleep Furiously': The Slow Life in Trefeurig Movie Review | 'House of Boys': Gay in Amsterdam in the 1980s Movie Review | 'Forged': A Parolee's Dilemma Movie Review | 'The Smurfs': Blue Travelers in the Big City Movie Review | 'The Optimists': Best of All Possible Worlds: When Life Gives You Mud, Take a Mud Bath Movie Review | 'El Bulli': Taste-Testing the Edge of Cuisine's Envelope News & Features ARTS & LEISURE Apes From the Future, Holding a Mirror to Today By TERRENCE RAFFERTY Pierre Boulle's idea of peculiarly advanced simians has evolved from his 1963 novel "Planet of the Apes" to Rupert Wyatt's new film, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes," the seventh film based on the book. ARTS & LEISURE Babies to Heroes: A Field Guide to Big-Screen Men By A. O. SCOTT and MANOHLA DARGIS The male archetypes populating contemporary Hollywood offer clues about what the men of our dreams look like, or at least what moviemakers are trying to sell us. ARTS & LEISURE When They Play Women, It's Not Just an Act By ERIK PIEPENBURG Harmony Santana is among a small group of openly transgender actors who are increasingly recognizable and finding a place on screen. DVD Gleason as Tripster, Groucho as God By DAVE KEHR "Skiddoo," Otto Preminger's 1968 psychedelic comedy starring, among others, Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Mickey Rooney and Grouch Marx, is a finely controlled mess. ADVERTISEMENT

Photos & Video VIDEO: Critics' Picks: 'Back to the Future' A. O. Scott explores the existential predicaments that arise in Robert Zemeckis's 1985 time-travel adventure.  Movie Overview |  Comment VIDEO: Anatomy of a Scene: 'The Future' Miranda July, the director of "The Future," narrates a look at the film. VIDEO: Gender Roles The new movie "Gun Hill Road" distinguishes itself from transgender films of the recent past by relying on an actress, Harmony Santana, who is herself transgender.  When They Play Women, It's Not an Act A. O. SCOTT RECOMMENDS: The Myth of the American Sleepover NYT Review Readers' Reviews Buy Tickets Watch Trailer MANOHLA DARGIS RECOMMENDS: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 NYT Review Readers' Reviews Buy Tickets Watch Trailer STEPHEN HOLDEN RECOMMENDS: The Optimists NYT Review Readers' Reviews Buy Tickets Watch Trailer More Critics' Picks » Showtimes & Tickets Enter Title and/orEnter Zip Code  Go to Showtimes & Tickets » Box Office Top 5 Captain America: The First Avenger Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 Friends with Benefits Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon Horrible Bosses Go to Box Office » Editor FeedBack Thanks for taking the time to read this e-mail. Feel free to send feedback; I enjoy hearing your opinions and will do my best to respond. Mekado MurphyMovies Producer The New York Times on the Web Coming Soon  Mysteries of Lisbon  Rise of the Planet of the Apes  The Whistleblower Go to Coming Soon » Times Pulse The most popular movies among NYTimes.com readers. Cowboys & Aliens The Future Crazy, Stupid, Love The Optimists El Bulli: Cooking in Progress Go to Times Pulse »