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Slate Magazine - Movies - Oct 10, 2008
Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Body of Lies. [more ...]
Slate Magazine - Oct 9, 2008
It seems unsporting to say anything even remotely negative about Happy-Go-Lucky (Miramax), the new Mike Leigh film that's been blissing out audiences abroad since it opened in the United Kingdom last spring. After all …
Slate Magazine - Movies - Oct 3, 2008
Beverly Hills Chihuahua (Disney) isn't terrible. OK, it's kind of terrible, but it's a talking-dog movie, and anyone who goes to a talking-dog movie without being prepared to step in poop deserves to ruin his shoes …
Slate Magazine - Movies - Oct 3, 2008
Jonathan Demme has reached a point in his career where he can make whatever movie he damn well pleases. A documentary about a Haitian radio host (The Agronomist)! A portrait of Jimmy Carter on book tour (Man From …
Slate Magazine - Movies - Oct 2, 2008
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (Sony) is so slight it's almost diaphanous—an hour after seeing it, what the movie leaves behind is not so much a memory as a mood. Still, it's a fine mood, lit with the sparkle of …
Slate Magazine - Movies - Sep 26, 2008
Earlier this month, Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks got sued for allegedly lifting the plot of 2007's Disturbia from Rear Window. It won't help their case that Eagle Eye (DreamWorks), the latest collaboration between …
Slate Magazine - Movies - Sep 25, 2008
Thank God we have another film about the fantasies, hang-ups, unintentional cruelties, and eventual redemption of a fucked-up straight white guy. For a moment there, I had almost forgotten to keep such dudes at the …
Slate Magazine - Movies - Sep 19, 2008
"There's something almost vulgar about trying to describe what [Max Ophuls'] camera does," says Todd Haynes in a DVD extra for Le Plaisir, one of three Ophuls films released this week by the Criterion Collection. The …
Slate Magazine - Movies - Sep 18, 2008
The new Ricky Gervais comedy, Ghost Town. [more ...]
Slate Magazine - Movies - Sep 13, 2008
As Jasira, the barely pubescent protagonist of Towelhead (Warner Independent Pictures), the 19-year-old actress Summer Bishil captures the terrifying combination of lubricity and innocence that is being 13. Her …