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"In Darkness": Recognizable Holocaust Story Still Affecting

By Michael Atkinson | Wed, February 08, 2012

Holocaust culture has proven to be essentially infinite — almost 70 years since the end of World War II, and untold stories of decimation and survival are still hitting the mainstream. Agnieszka Holland's new film, In Darkness, opens a scab perhap... More >
"Coriolanus": Another Unnecessary Shakespeare Adaptation

By Eric Hynes | Wed, February 01, 2012

Updating Shakespeare seems doubly condescending: the implication that we need help relating to the text, and that the text needs to be made relevant. In the case of Ralph Fiennes's adaptation of Coriolanus — a knotty tragedy about a warrior who re... More >
"Albert Nobbs": A Daring Story Rendered Static

By Melissa Anderson | Wed, January 25, 2012

Fulfilling a mission that has consumed her for almost two decades, Glenn Close — as producer, co-writer, and lead — brings to the screen the titular character, a woman who passes as a man in 1890s Ireland, a role for which she won an Obie in 1982.... More >
"Polite" Society Upended

By Karina Longworth | Wed, January 04, 2012

In Carnage, Roman Polanski's adaptation of Yasmina Reza's hit play, posh pair Alan and Nancy (Christoph Waltz and Kate Winslet) come to the home of wholesaler Michael (John C. Reilly) and crunchy author Penelope (Jodie Foster) to discuss how to de... More >
The Life of the Mind

By J. Hoberman | Wed, December 14, 2011

David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method is at once a lucid movie of ideas, a compelling narrative, and a splendidly acted love story involving Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender), Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), and Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley), t... More >