Persepolis is at once a confessional autobiography, historical re-enactment, graphic art object, and deeply involving contemporary story about a girl’s coming of age while circumventing not only the usual pitfalls of adolescence but also the enforced repression brought on by Iran’s Islamic revolution of the Eighties. 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

Nothing sets a girl’s heart racing more than having your dreamboat name a new world after you. Read more

The Russian crime syndicate in New York and conflicts between brothers on opposite sides of the law: These are Gray’s recurrent (redundant?) themes. That Wahlberg and Phoenix both co-starred in Gray’s last film, 2000’s The Yards, doesn’t ease We Own the Night’s sense of déj? vu. Read more

A truly perplexing documentary, My Kid Could Paint That begins as a fascinating cultural investigation, then events occur during the shooting of the film which cause filmmaker Bar-Lev to shift his focus and consequently render his finished product an ultimately creepy and exploitative document. Read more

With his fifth feature film, Anderson boards another train of ironic whimsy, although this time the train is quite literal and not just the train of thought in his head. Read more

Vigilantism is alive and flourishing in “Death Sentence,” the new revenge thriller from Wan, the so-called Splat Pack director of the original Saw movie. Read more

Professional gadfly Moore alights on the topic of the shortcomings of the American health-care system, and with this subject crafts his most widely accessible and least divisive documentary to date. Read more

Although hardly clueless, this Nancy Drew seems like she’d be more at home in a movie titled thusly. read more

More than just a fun three hours at the movies, Grindhouse is a total immersion into movie geekdom, in which the packaging, marketing, lore, and accumulative experience are as much a part of the deal as the images that are up on the screen Read the rest of this entry »