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Movie Reviews




Leading Man, Miles Beyond the Boy Band

By JONAH WEINER
Justin Timberlake with Mila Kunis in “Friends With Benefits.”
Glen Wilson/Screen Gems
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.

Summer Movies: Some Have a Blast

By A. O. SCOTT and MANOHLA DARGIS
“Transformers: Dark of the Moon” is one of the big-budget movies released by a major studio this summer.
Robert Zuckerman/Paramount Pictures
“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.
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.
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.
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.
MOVIE REVIEW | 'SALVATION BOULEVARD'
A scene from

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.
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.
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.
T MAGAZINE
Joyce McKinney in

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.”
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
Jason Zinoman

‘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.

Photos & Video
Interactive Feature
Harry Potter and the Devoted Fans
Reader-submitted photos of Harry Potter fans in costume from around the world.
Slide Show
A Career in Sync
A look back at the work of the musician-turned-actor Justin Timberlake.
Interactive Feature
Harry Potter and the Billion-Dollar Franchise
A look at how Harry Potter evolved from a figment of a teacher’s imagination into the foundation of an entertainment empire.

Harry Potter and You

July 15, 2011

Seeking Your Harry Potter Photos

July 14, 2011

A Single Pleasure Ere Summer Fades

July 14, 2011
More Movies Posts in Artsbeat »

Ask the Critics

Have a question for the co-chief film critics of The New York Times, Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott? Write to them ataskthefilmcritics@nytimes.com.
Photos & Video
Video
Critics' Picks: Diabolique
A. O. Scott looks back at the 1955 French thriller where appearances can be deceiving.
Video
Rocking With Wizards
A look inside the wizard rock circuit; a group of rock bands inspired by Harry Potter.
Slide Show
The Films of Chris Evans
A look at the career of the actor now starring in “Captain America: The First Avenger.”
Slide Show
Small Museums, Big Stars
Museums in small towns make sure that stars like Stewart, Gardner and Gable don’t fade away.
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Education Review


Charter School Battle Shifts to Affluent Suburbs

By WINNIE HU
Founders of a proposed Mandarin-immersion charter school meeting in a South Orange, N.J., home. From left, Jutta Gassner-Snyder, Nancy Chu, Tom Piskula and Tiffany Boyd Hodgson.
Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
Founders of a proposed Mandarin-immersion charter school meeting in a South Orange, N.J., home. From left, Jutta Gassner-Snyder, Nancy Chu, Tom Piskula and Tiffany Boyd Hodgson.
Charters, normally thought of as a way to help poor areas, are being proposed in places that have good schools.

Law School Economics: Ka-Ching!

By DAVID SEGAL
Despite fewer high-paying jobs, students continue to pour into law school. And the schools keep charging higher tuition and admitting more students.

School Officials and Union Agree on Pilot Program for Teacher Evaluations

By SHARON OTTERMAN
Teachers in 33 schools will be rated as either ineffective, developing, effective or highly effective, rather than simply satisfactory or unsatisfactory.

California to Require Gay History in Schools

By IAN LOVETT
California will become the first state to require public schools to include the works of gays and lesbians in social science instruction and in textbooks.
Tom Vander Ark, the former executive director of education for the Gates Foundation, says a weak economy hurt efforts by City Prep Academies to start schools in New York and New Jersey.

Tom Vander Ark’s New York-Area Charter Schools Falter

By ANNA M. PHILLIPS
A former top official with the Gates Foundation found that opening innovative schools in the New York area was harder than he had anticipated.
Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law a sweeping education-reform bill that among other things will allow for longer school days.

Supporters of Education Bill Seek to Replace Money Lost in Budget-Cutting Process

By KRISTEN McQUEARY
Education advocates say they hope that money cut from the state budget will be restored by the federal Race to the Top program.

Schools Chiefs See a Path to Proposing Their Own Accountability Systems

By WINNIE HU
Some state education chiefs say that if Congress does not overhaul No Child Left Behind by the fall, they may be allowed to propose their own accountability systems as an alternative.

Top Science Fair Honors Go to American Girls

By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Three girls from the United States won the top prizes in a global science fair started by Google for their projects on ovarian cancer, grilled chicken and indoor air quality.
ON EDUCATION
Matthew Sprowal and his mother, Katherine. He left a charter school for a traditional public school, where he is flourishing.

Message From a Charter School: Thrive or Transfer

By MICHAEL WINERIP
A mother said a school concluded in 12 days that her son did not meet standards, raising a question about whether charter schools cherry-pick students.
DOCTORS INC.

New for Aspiring Doctors, the People Skills Test

By GARDINER HARRIS
A new admission process at medical schools involves a series of encounters meant to examine aspiring doctors’ ability to communicate and work in teams.
Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers says the debate “has been hijacked by a group of self-styled reformers.”

Union Chief Faults School Reform From ‘On High’

By ALAN SCHWARZ
The president of the American Federation of Teachers called for education reform that emanates from teachers and their communities, rather than from “those who blame teachers for everything.”


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Cold Cherry Soup


RECIPES FOR HEALTH

Andrew Scrivani for The New York Times
By MARTHA ROSE SHULMAN
Published: July 12, 2011
Many versions of cold cherry soup originated in Hungary and Poland, where cooks would use sour cherries and a lot of sugar. Traditional cherry soups also are made with sour cream and heavy cream, and sometimes they are thickened with flour. I like this lighter version, which is made with drained yogurt instead of cream.

Recipes for Health

Martha Rose Shulman presents food that is vibrant and light, full of nutrients but by no means ascetic, fun to cook and to eat.

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5 cups water
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup red wine
1/4 teaspoon salt
Grated zest of 1/2 lemon
1 1/2 pounds sweet, dark cherries
1. Pit the cherries, and place the pitted cherries in a bowl and the pits in a large soup pot. Add the water to the pot, and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer five minutes. With a skimmer, remove the pits from the water. Add the sugar, red wine, salt and lemon zest, and bring back to a boil over medium-high heat. Boil five minutes, then add the cherries. Bring to a simmer, turn the heat to low, cover and simmer five minutes. Remove from the heat.
2. Place the yogurt in a large bowl and slowly whisk in a cup of the liquid from the soup once it is no longer simmering. Whisk until the mixture is smooth. Slowly add the rest of the soup, and whisk or stir until smooth. Allow to cool, stirring from time to time, then refrigerate until cold. Before serving, you will have to stir or whisk again, as the liquid and yogurt will separate. Still, the soup is easily homogenized.
3. Serve in bowls or in glass tumblers. If you wish, garnish with additional halved, pitted fresh cherries.
Yield: Serves six to eight.
Advance preparation: The soup will keep for two or three days in the refrigerator. (I found myself snacking on the leftovers -- very refreshing on a hot summer day.)
Nutritional information per serving (six servings): 178 calories; 1 gram saturated fat; 0 grams polyunsaturated fat; 0 grams monounsaturated fat; 3 milligrams cholesterol; 37 grams carbohydrates; 2 grams dietary fiber; 116 milligrams sodium; 4 grams protein
Nutritional information per serving (eight servings): 134 calories; 0 grams saturated fat; 0 grams polyunsaturated fat; 0 grams monounsaturated fat; 2 milligrams cholesterol; 28 grams carbohydrates; 2 grams dietary fiber; 87 milligrams sodium; 3 grams protein
Martha Rose Shulman is the author of “The Very Best of Recipes for Health.”
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An Alarming New Stimulant, Legal in Many States


Michael Stravato for The New York Times
So-called bath salts are labeled “not for human consumption,” which helps them skirt a law that would make them illegal.
By  and KATIE ZEZIMA
Published: July 16, 2011
Dr. Jeffrey J. Narmi could not believe what he was seeing this spring in the emergency room at Schuylkill Medical Center in Pottsville, Pa.: people arriving so agitated, violent and psychotic that a small army of medical workers was needed to hold them down.
They had taken new stimulant drugs that people are calling “bath salts,” and sometimes even large doses of sedatives failed to quiet them.
“There were some who were admitted overnight for treatment and subsequently admitted to the psych floor upstairs,” Dr. Narmi said. “These people were completely disconnected from reality and in a very bad place.”
Similar reports are emerging from hospitals around the country, as doctors scramble to figure out the best treatment for people high on bath salts. The drugs started turning up regularly in the United States last year and have proliferated in recent months, alarming doctors, who say they have unusually dangerous and long-lasting effects.
Though they come in powder and crystal form like traditional bath salts — hence their name — they differ in one crucial way: they are used as recreational drugs. People typically snort, inject or smoke them.
Poison control centers around the country received 3,470 calls about bath salts from January through June, according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers, up from 303 in all of 2010.
“Some of these folks aren’t right for a long time,” said Karen E. Simone, director of theNorthern New England Poison Center. “If you gave me a list of drugs that I wouldn’t want to touch, this would be at the top.”
At least 28 states have banned bath salts, which are typically sold for $25 to $50 per 50-milligram packet at convenience stores and head shops under names like Aura, Ivory Wave, Loco-Motion and Vanilla Sky. Most of the bans are in the South and the Midwest, where the drugs have grown quickly in popularity. But states like Maine, New Jersey and New York have also outlawed them after seeing evidence that their use was spreading.
The cases are jarring and similar to those involving PCP in the 1970s. Some of the recent incidents include a man in Indiana who climbed a roadside flagpole and jumped into traffic, a man in Pennsylvania who broke into a monastery and stabbed a priest, and a woman in West Virginia who scratched herself “to pieces” over several days because she thought there was something under her skin.
“She looked like she had been dragged through a briar bush for several miles,” said Dr. Owen M. Lander, an emergency room doctor at Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, W.Va.
Bath salts contain manmade chemicals like mephedrone and methylenedioxypyrovalerone, or MDPV, also known as substituted cathinones. Both drugs are related to khat, an organic stimulant found in Arab and East African countries that is illegal in the United States.
They are similar to so-called synthetic marijuana, which has also caused a surge inmedical emergencies and been banned in a number of states. In March, the Drug Enforcement Administration used emergency powers to temporarily ban five chemicals used in synthetic marijuana, which is sold in the same types of shops as bath salts.
Shortly afterward, Senator Bob Casey, Democrat of Pennsylvania, asked the agency to enact a similar ban on the chemicals in bath salts. It has not done so, although Gary Boggs, a special agent at D.E.A. headquarters in Washington, said the agency had started looking into whether to make MDPV and mephedrone controlled Schedule I drugs like heroin and ecstasy.
Mr. Casey said in a recent interview that he was frustrated by the lack of a temporary ban. “There has to be some authority that is not being exercised,” he said. “I’m not fully convinced they can’t take action in a way that’s commensurate with the action taken at the state level.”
Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, introduced federal legislation in February to classify bath salts as controlled Schedule I substances, but it remains in committee. Meanwhile, the drugs remain widely available on the Internet, and experts say the state bans can be thwarted by chemists who need change only one molecule in salts to make them legal again.
And while some states with bans have seen fewer episodes involving bath salts, others where they remain fully legal, like Arizona, are starting to see a surge of cases.
Dr. Frank LoVecchio, an emergency room doctor at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix, said he had to administer general anesthesia in recent weeks to bath salt users so agitated that they did not respond to large doses of sedatives.
Dr. Justin Strittmatter, an emergency room doctor at the Gulf Coast Medical Center in Panama City, Fla., said he had treated one man whose temperature had shot up to 107.5 degrees after snorting bath salts. “You could fry an egg on his forehead,” Dr. Strittmatter said.
Other doctors described dangerously elevated blood pressure and heart rates and people so agitated that their muscles started to break down, releasing chemicals that led to kidney failure.
Mark Ryan, the director of the Louisiana Poison Center, said some doctors had turned to powerful antipsychotics to calm users after sedatives failed. “If you take the worst attributes of meth, coke, PCP, LSD and ecstasy and put them together,” he said, “that’s what we’re seeing sometimes.”
Dr. Ryan added, “Some people who used it back in November or December, their family members say they’re still experiencing noticeable paranoid tendencies that they did not have prior.”
Before hitting this country, bath salts swept Britain, which banned them in April 2010. Experts say much of the supply is coming from China and India, where chemical manufacturers have less government oversight.
They are labeled “not for human consumption,” which helps them skirt the federal Analog Act, under which any substance “substantially similar” to a banned drug is deemed illegal if it is intended for consumption.
Last month, the drug agency made its first arrests involving bath salts under the Analog Act through a special task force in New York. Undercover agents bought bath salts from stores in Manhattan and Brooklyn, where clerks discussed how to ingest them and boasted that they would not show up on a drug test.
“We were sending out a message that if you’re going to sell these bath salts, it’s a violation and we will be looking at you,” said John P. Gilbride, special agent in charge of the New York field division of the D.E.A.
The authorities in Alton, Ill., are looking at the Analog Act as they prepare to file criminal charges in the death of a woman who overdosed on bath salts bought at a liquor store in April.
“We think we can prove that these folks were selling it across the counter for the purposes of humans getting high,” said Chief David Hayes of the Alton police.
Chief Hayes and other law enforcement officials said they had been shocked by how quickly bath salts turned into a major problem. “I have never seen a drug that took off as fast as this one,” Chief Hayes said. Others said some people on the drugs could not be subdued with pepper spray or even Tasers.
Chief Joseph H. Murton of the Pottsville police said the number of bath salt cases had dropped significantly since the city banned the drugs last month. But before the ban, he said, the episodes were overwhelming the police and two local hospitals.
“We had two instances in particular where they were acting out in a very violent manner and they were Tasered and it had no effect,” he said. “One was only a small female, but it took four officers to hold her down, along with two orderlies. That’s how out of control she was.”
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