Movie Reviews & Stories From Billy Elliot to The Hours to The Reader, director Stephen Daldry has turned repressing your sexuality into something the upper class can feel sexy about. The people in his movies suffer the   More

Movie Reviews & Stories The movie’s star, Gary Oldman, studies us through stylish 1970s spectacles, adjusting them with a stylishly leather-gloved hand. Printed below his left eye are words: “The enemy is within.”    More

Movie Reviews & Stories  As a child, it can be a little traumatic to see a magician make a mistake and drop his thumb. I mean his false thumb, from which he might produce   More

Screen A burst of jazz announces the place as 1950s London, where elderly author J.R. Ackerley begins typing a memoir. From his cozy apartment,    More

Movies & Television A Valerie Plame movie, for people who thought that Decemberists song didn't go on long enough.

Fair Game



WW Critic's Score: 7

More left-wing celebrity grandstanding from studio Participant Media, Fair Game is a tribute to compromised CIA officer Valerie Plame and her diplomat husband Joe Wilson. They are played by Naomi Watts and Sean Penn as weepy victims of t...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories “Shenanigans” is a good English translation of this French title. If it’s shenanigans you want, then shenanigans you shall have, because Micmacs is the latest from Jean-Pierre Jeunet ...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories “You call me an asshole, I’m gonna earn it!” declares Michael Douglas in his new drama, and as we all know, Michael Douglas is a big earner. His character, Ben Kalmen, is a smooth-ta ...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Get ready for a mammogram. And another mammogram. And another. This is how Nicole Holofcener kicks off her film Please Give. Here in the dreaded radiology clinic, lonely New Yorker Rebecca (Rebecca Ha ...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories In the work of French filmmaker Michel Gondry, cinema has returned to its early role as a wondrous magic show. On Saturday, Gondry will visit Portland’s Hollywood Theatre to present The Thorn in ...   More

News It wasn't screened by WW press deadlines, but J.Lo's latest is the most heartwarming American film since last month's The Yellow Handkerchief. Seriously.



WW Critic's Score: 75

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