Joe Strummer, front man for The Clash, was the quintessential rude boy, rebel musician, artist, and activist who melded raw creativity with radical politics and transformed punk rock into a social movement. Julien Temple’s doc traces the musicians career from squat to stardom.Read more

Julien Temple’s Sex Pistols documentary, THE FILTH AND THE FURY, remains one of the best of the punk-rock docs, a bracing blast of energy that reminds audiences just why the band was so exciting and so relevant to their time. Unfortunately, Temple’s treatment of The Clash, particularly the band’s lead singer, Joe Strummer, who died unexpectedly in 2002, is far less involving. Read more

Men are apparently not the only ones from Mars. Small boys hail from the Red Planet, too, according to Martian Child, an occasionally schmaltzy but likable story of healing and redemption. Read more

Hollywood, in all its shallow, hypnotic glory, is rife with three different types of people – those who are famous, those who want to see someone famous, and those who desperately want to be famous. Read more

Less an exposé than a graceful, sometimes sad, reverie, the documentary features gorgeous still photos, casual-seeming sidewalk footage, and fascinating talking heads (honestly, the interview settings, from a warehouse to a bedroom to several cluttered apartments, are both beautiful and apt) Read more

Playwright Susan Charlotte’s examination of 9/11’s psychic scars, directed by Antony Marsellis, comprises three loosely connected vignettes, each featuring a pair of New Yorkers whose paths intersect at an emotionally volatile moment. Read more

In his first major film venture and his largest-scale project since the conclusion of his watershed TV show in 1998, Seinfeld has made an animated movie that’s only little more than “about nothing.” Read more

It’s so unfunny it almost stings. Read more

In the world of animated movies, there’s Pixar (whose “Ratatouille” may well turn up on many 10-best lists this year), and then there’s everyone else. And even when “everyone else” includes Jerry Seinfeld, it’s still second best. Read more

Cute, ingratiating, crawling with celebrity voice talent, and steeped in cowriter, coproducer and star Jerry Seinfeld’s New York-centric observational shtick, this candy-colored animated fable is an awkward mix of corny bee puns, clever sight gags, kid-friendly action, adult-oriented workplace angst and Seinfeld’s distinctive navel-gazing wit. Read More