Movie Reviews & Stories Director Jonathan Demme has always been fascinated by how music affects a person. Think of the members of Talking Heads beaming with pure joy as they performed in the 1984 concert film Stop Making   More

Movie Reviews & Stories In the Bathtub—the fictional Louisiana bayou settlement that forms the backdrop and lifeblood of the enchanting Beasts of the Southern Wild—the price of existing off the grid is living in waterlog   More

Movie Reviews & Stories I would love this movie to become the Risky Business or Pump Up the Volume for a generation of small-town Norwegian teens raised on Internet pornography. Even with its opening scene of a nubile yo   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Peter Parker has come unstuck in time. Only five years ago, our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man was a grown-up who looked a lot like walking homunculus and worked as a photographer. Five years    More

Movie Reviews & Stories It takes some kind of performance to bust through Oliver Stone’s hardened lacquer of film stocks and oblique angles. In Savages, Benicio Del Toro...    More

Movie Reviews & Stories In To Rome With Love, the latest stop on Woody Allen’s prolonged European vacation, there’s a recurring reference to “Ozymandias melancholia,” a made-up condition in which being among the    More

Movie Reviews & Stories In the early 2000s, former Clinton Street Theater owner Seth Sonstein founded the Portland Underground Film Festival. His mission...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Odds were that Steven Soderbergh’s career of genre hopscotching would eventually land on a male stripper movie. Taking bits from Midnight Cowboy, Boogie Nights and, strangely, Coyote Ugly, the   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Few threats are as amorphous and frightening as breast cancer. It is nature’s violent misogyny, sex and death bound up far too tightly. Small wonder, I suppose, that Avon or Revlon or Susan G. K   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Can it really be true that through a dozen films, Pixar—the North American animation titan celebrated for its multilayered storytelling and uncommonly complex characters—declined to come up wi   More