Movie Reviews & Stories It is a hazardous undertaking to look in the mirror during a hangover. Yet this is a motif repeated throughout Young Adult: Somewhere between swigging from a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke and cracki   More

Movie Reviews & Stories “I find you disgusting.” These are the first substantive words spoken in director Steve McQueen’s sex-negative new film, aptly titled Shame. They are a misdirection, delivered after a craft   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Portland director James Westby’s Rid of Me is targeted very narrowly at a certain audience, and you will know whether you are part of it from the very first scene, in which Storm Large is atta   More

Movie Reviews & Stories The latest in a tide of seasonal ensemble films that play like Short Cuts or Magnolia for people with strong feelings about annual festivities, New Year’s Eve insists that nothing ennobles the hum   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Mr. Murata, the tropical-fish vendor and serial killer who drives the Japanese horror fantasia Cold Fish, likes to describe what he does to his victims as “making them invisible.” He accomplis   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Our cinemas are being overrun with garbage, and it’s glorious. Portland’s hunger for all things trashy has hit a nexus, flooding cinemas with amateurish depravity. Hollywood Theatre programm   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Lars von Trier’s restless formal experimentation makes him difficult to pin down, but the Dane responsible for Dancer in the Dark and Dogville tends toward an obsession with wretchedness. The result   More

Movie Reviews & Stories With The Muppets opening today to introduce a new generation to lonely monsters and wisecracking bears, WW called in its resident plushies to unstuff it.Aaron: So the new Muppet thing turns out to be    More

Movie Reviews & Stories George Clooney, who may be the closest thing we now have to a Cary Grant, seems of late to be reversing Grant’s career trajectory. While Grant went from pratfalling acrobat to ironically self-aware    More

Movie Reviews & Stories As Werner Herzog softens from Teutonic maniac into shutterbug German tourist, his documentaries have begun to resemble the adventures of Ernest P. Worrell. There was Werner Goes to Alaska, where he wa   More