The new Bond is not just another pretty face, in fact is a pretty craggy face.

Has his sexism perhaps crossed over from fiction into reality?

Never mind how tortuous the route to a punch line.

The more you know about an event, the more tainted it will get.

The director tries to lose the viewer in a maze of flashbacks-within-flashbacks.

The training is gone into in some depth and at even greater length.

A few moving, movie-ish moments fight through the messiness.

The parallel plotlines take a long time to shed any light on each other.

Manny Farber was a friend of mine before we ever met. I recall exactly how I was introduced. I had read Pauline Kael's jeremiad on Andrew Sarris and the auteur theory, “Circles and Squares,” in …

Movies reviewed this week: Eight Below, Final Destination 3, Firewall, Freedomland and The Pink Panther

Seldom has so small a film created so big a flap. The flap, to be sure, has nothing whatever to do with the film itself, identified on the poster as "another Steven Soderbergh experience," though …

Movies reviewed this week: Caché, Imagine Me and You and Mrs. Henderson Presents

Movies reviewed this week: Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World and Match Point

Movies reviewed this week: Hoodwinked, The New World, Transamerica, and Tristan and Isolde

Movies reviewed this week: Glory Road, Last Holiday, and The White Countess

More and more, I notice myself in the middle of a movie, or in the first ten minutes of a movie, putting the experience to the fundamental test. Am I content to be watching this …

Will the seller of secrets sell out their buyer as well?

Movies reviewed this week: Breakfast on Pluto, Cheaper by the Dozen 2, The Family Stone, Fun with Dick and Jane, King Kong, Memoirs of a Geisha, andWolf Creek

Movies reviewed this week: Brokeback Mountain and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

Movies reviewed this week: Aeon Flux, The Dying Gaul, Loggerheads, Protocols of Zion, and Syriana

Movies reviewed this week: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, The Ice Harvest, and Rent

Movies reviewed this week: Bee Season, Get Rich or Die Tryin’, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Pride and Prejudice, and Walk the Line

Movies reviewed this week: Jarhead, Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic, and Zathura

Movies reviewed this week: Prime, Shopgirl, The Squid and the Whale, and The Weather Man

Movies reviewed this week: Three Extremes

Movies reviewed this week: Dreamer, Elizabethtown, Good Night, and Good Luck, and North Country

Filmmakers have a hard enough time telling the truth about fictional characters fashioned out of whole cloth.

Movies reviewed this week: In Her Shoes, Oliver Twist, and Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Movies reviewed this week: A History of Violence and Flightplan

Movies reviewed this week: Côte d’Azur, Everything Is Illuminated, Just Like Heaven, Proof, Reel Paradise, The Thing about My Folks, Thumbsucker, Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride

Movies reviewed this week: Crimen Perfecto, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Memory of a Killer, and A Sound of Thunder

Movies reviewed this week: Asylum, The Constant Gardener, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, and Tony Takitani

We have reached the tail end of the Dog Days, where my choices seem to be either to do one or more of The Brothers Grimm, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, …

Movies reviewed this week: The Great Raid, Grizzly Man, Junebug, 9 Songs, Red Eye, and 2046

Movies reviewed this week: Four Brothers, The Aristocrats, King of the Corner, Last Days, The Devil's Rejects and The Dukes of Hazzard

Movies reviewed this week: Broken Flowers, Lila Says, Murderball, and November

Movies reviewed this week: À Tout de Suite, Bad News Bears, The Beat That My Heart Skipped, 5x2 and Saraband

Movies reviewed this week: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Cronicas, Happy Endings, Hustle and Flow, The Island, and Wedding Crashers

Movies reviewed this week: Dark Water, Me and You and Everyone We Know, and War of the Worlds

The movie at two hours was already a bit short on action and long on character.

Movies reviewed this week: Land of the Dead and Yes

Movies reviewed this week: Après Vous, Bewitched, Heights, Land of the Dead, and My Summer of Love

Movies reviewed this week: Batman Begins and Howl’s Moving Castle

Movies reviewed this week: Cinderella Man, Lords of Dogtown, Mad Hot Ballroom, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, andThe Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Movies reviewed this week: Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

There it sits, seemingly every week among the movie ads in these pages, an advertisement for myself (to lift a snippet from Norman Mailer), but taken out by somebody else. "Thousands of Duncan Shepherd's Movie …

Movies reviewed this week: House of D and The Interpreter

Movies reviewed this week: Don’t Move, Kung Fu Hustle, A Lot Like Love, Oldboy, and Walk on Water

Movies reviewed this week: Eros, In My Country, and Melinda and Melinda

Movies reviewed this week: Dear Frankie, D.E.B.S., Downfall, Millions, The Ring Two, Schultze Gets the Blues, and The Upside of Anger