Demi Moore, Then and Now
Trailer: 'The Losers'
The Cecil B. DeMille of Movie Lists
By STUART MILLER
Brad Bourland, a 58-year-old produce clerk in Austin, Tex., has spent almost 10 years assembling an online list of the top 10,000 movies of all time.
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Now G.I. Jane Is Somebody’s Mom
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
David Lauridsen for The New York Times
Demi Moore at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif.
After a career of surprising successes, high-profile disappointments and talked-about magazine covers, Demi Moore is quietly resuming her film career.
A ‘Wire’ Star Redirects His Electricity
By DAN KOIS
Eden Batki for The New York Times
The British actor Idris Elba in Los Angeles.
Idris Elba — a star of “The Wire” on HBO and now the action comedy “The Losers” in theaters — carefully follows his own plan for stardom.
Brutal Truths About Violence
By A. O. SCOTT
Marv Films/Lionsgate; Knut Koivisto/Music Box Films
“Kick-Ass,” left, and “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” offer heroines who inflict grave injury, but are the victims of it, too.
“Kick-Ass” and “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” demonstrate how inured to graphic savagery movie audiences have become.
Movie Reviews
Movie Review 'Kick-Ass'
It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s a Blood Bath
By MANOHLA DARGIS
A story about a teenager who yearns to be a superhero, “Kick-Ass” is fast, periodically spit-funny and often grotesquely violent.
Video Interview: Matthew VaughnMovie Review 'The Secret in Their Eyes'
Cold Case, Warm Hearts: Death Leads to Romance
By MANOHLA DARGIS
This Argentine murder mystery, tinged with regret and longing, won the Academy Award for best foreign-language film.
Movie Review 'No One Knows About Persian Cats'
Band on the Run, Filmed on the Fly
By A. O. SCOTT
Bahman Ghobadi’s new movie follows young indie rockers trying to make music in Iran.
Movie Review 'Death at a Funeral'
Remaking an Ancient Farce From 2007
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Neil LaBute’s version of “Death at a Funeral” moves the action to Los Angeles with a predominantly black cast.
Movie Review 'Exit Through the Gift Shop'
On the Street, at the Corner of Art and Trash
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
A documentary follows a Frenchman who follows Banksy and other street artists.
Movie Review 'The City of Your Final Destination'
Genteel Lives Unsettled in Uruguay
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Anthony Hopkins and Laura Linney star in a Merchant Ivory production without Ismail Merchant.
Movie Review | 'The Joneses'
Buy, Buy, Buy, to Keep Up With the You-Know-Whos
By A. O. SCOTT
In “The Joneses,” a fake family is dispatched to suburbia to seduce the natives into buying more stuff.
Movie Review 'Handsome Harry'
A Sexual Advance, a Savage Beating, Years of Guilt
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
In “Handsome Harry” a Vietnam veteran, played by Jamey Sheridan, takes a journey into an unpleasant past.
Movie Review 'The Perfect Game'
A Baseball Story
By NEIL GENZLINGER
“The Perfect Game” tells the tale of a ragtag Mexican team that improbably wins the Little League World Series.
Movie Review 'NoBody’s Perfect'
The Devastating Legacy of Thalidomide
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
A German director who was exposed prenatally to thalidomide cajoles 11 of his peers into baring all for a nude calendar.
Movie Review | 'The Cartel'
Children Left Behind
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
A documentary about the American public-school system in New Jersey focuses on corrupt administrators, teachers’ unions and school boards.
Movie Review 'Pornography'
3 Tales on Disappearance of Gay Porn Star
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Despite marvelously moody visuals and a tantalizing setup, “Pornography: A Thriller” finally puzzles more than it pleases.
Movie Review 'World on a Wire'
Fassbinder’s Vibrating Sci-Fi Questions About Reality
By A. O. SCOTT
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s “World on a Wire,” which will be shown at the Museum of Modern Art in a restored 35-millimeter print, will certainly be familiar to fans of “The Matrix.”
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News & Features
12 Days, 132 Films, 38 Countries
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
The Tribeca Film Festival opens on Wednesday and includes 85 features, many at the border of fiction and documentary.
River Surfing, Rugby Bonding and Bicycle Soaring
By MIKE HALE
ESPN and the Tribeca Film Festival team up to show seven sports-related films. River surfing, anyone?
DVDs
Lessons in 20th-Century History
By DAVE KEHR
Minstrelsy is central to “Mammy,” an Al Jolson vehicle from 1930, now out in a new DVD edition.
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Jack Kirby’s Heroes in Waiting
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Madman, Perhaps; Survivor, Definitely
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Just a Sweet Young Actress? $&@%# Right!
Photos & Video
Truth, Fiction and Tribeca
Stephen Holden narrates a look at some of the films appearing in the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.
Interview: Bahman Ghobadi
Bahman Ghobadi discusses the legal perils of shooting a party scene in his film about rock musicians in Iran.
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Hollywood Titan Turned Amazon Crusader
In the midst of a controversial dam project in the heart of the Amazon, James Cameron, the writer and director of “Avatar,” finds his real-world Na’vi.
Readers' Reviews
‘Mid-August Lunch’
“Well made with great acting and a story that will please. ... Americans should heed its theme: take time out to enjoy the simple pleasures of life,” writes Brodston in Gretna, Nebraska.
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The most popular movies among NYTimes.com readers.
This guide includes links to the original reviews from the archives of The New York Times.
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- Film: Brutal Truths About Violence
- Film: The Cecil B. DeMille of Movie Lists
- James Aubrey, who Portrayed the Hero in ‘Lord of the Flies’, Is Dead at 62
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- Movie Review | 'The City of Your Final Destination': Genteel Lives Unsettled in Uruguay
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- 'Human Films' Still Beckon a Master of Self-Absorbed Heroes
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- Now G.I. Jane Is Somebody’s Mom
- James Aubrey, who Portrayed the Hero in ‘Lord of the Flies’, Is Dead at 62
- Film: Brutal Truths About Violence
- Film: A ‘Wire’ Star Redirects His Electricity
- Film: The Cecil B. DeMille of Movie Lists
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