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• Movie Review | 'The Kite Runner': From Memories, There’s No Escape
  In both novel and film form, “The Kite Runner” recounts a simple yet shrewd story about that favorite American pastime: self-improvement.
• Movie Review | 'I Am Legend': Man About Town, and Very Alone
  In spite of its third-act collapse into obviousness and sentimentality, “I Am Legend” is among Will Smith’s better movies.
• Movie Review | 'Youth Without Youth': The Folks You Meet on the Border Between Consciousness and Dreams
  “Youth Without Youth” is a narratively ambitious, visually sumptuous surrealist enterprise that tries to bend time and space together as neatly as the folds in an origami swan.
• Movie Review | 'A Walk Into the Sea': Out of Warhol’s Inner Circle Into the Void
  “A Walk Into the Sea” is Esther B. Robinson’s documentary about Danny Williams, a former Harvard student who was a part of Andy Warhol’s Factory scene.
• Movie Review | 'Alvin and the Chipmunks': Familiar Faces With a Digital Makeover
  Hollywood continues its tired milking of old television properties with “Alvin and the Chipmunks,” a slick updating of the musical-cartoon franchise.
• Movie Review | 'Half Moon': Harsh Realities and Mystical Power
  For his poetic fourth feature, “Half Moon,” Bahman Ghobadi returns to the desolation of the Kurdish borderlands and the enduring optimism of his people.
• Movie Review | 'The Singing Revolution': Songs for a Brighter Tomorrow
  Can singing change history? “The Singing Revolution,” a documentary by James Tusty and Maureen Castle Tusty about Estonia’s struggle to end Soviet occupation, shows that it already has.
• Movie Review | 'Look': Now You See Me
  “Look,” an unsettling, rudely funny but not entirely credible feature by the writer and director Adam Rifkin, is an ensemble narrative for the age of public surveillance.
• Movie Review | 'Arranged': Teachers United
  In “Arranged” two devout Brooklyn schoolteachers clutch hands across the religious divide as their respective families prepare to marry them off.
• Movie Review | 'Nanking': Giving Testimony on the Horror That Was Nanking
  “Nanking” is a swift, incisive documentary about one of the lesser-known horrors of the 20th century.
• Movie Review | 'The Perfect Holiday': For a Single Mother, Mr. Claus Is Mr. Right
  “The Perfect Holiday,” directed by Lance Rivera, is that most dispiriting product, a formulaic movie that doesn’t believe in itself.