Girls Can Play

As a member of the oops-I-forgot-to-have-a-baby generation, I have a love-hate relationship with movies about pregnancy and...

By Elise Nakhnikian To Kill a Mockingbird is not that Great American Novel that people used to be so eager to discover, but it is a great s...

By Elise Nakhnikian I once read a comparison of Jeff Bridges’ movies that said you could predict how well they’d do by the...

When Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn), those goofy post-racial potheads, first ambled into theaters in 2004, they must ha...

By Elise Nakhnikian Ever since movie cameras were invented, people have tried to use them to cheat time, freezing shards of life at 24 frame...

By Elise Nakhnikian “We’re the police. We can do whatever we want,” says Detective Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves) in Street Kings. “Doesn’t matt...

By Elise Nakhnikian “I liked George Clooney’s smile,” the woman in the bathroom told her friend. “And I liked the relationship between him a...

By Elise Nakhnikian Stop-Loss is a flare sent out on behalf of all the soldiers who’ve served in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s partly a tribute...

When I first read about orphan films, in an email newsletter from Thom Powers, what caught my eye was not so much the orphan...

There’s something about the way we watch movies, all that dreaming in the dark, that gives them a pipeline to the subc...

By Elise Nakhnikian Just a couple weeks ago I was writing about Fool’s Gold, complaining that they don’t make romantic comedies like they u...

By Elise Nakhnikian For decades, your standard Nazi movie featured SS officers so evil they might have goose-stepped out of the pages of EC ...

By Elise Nakhnikian Now that “independent” films often cost nearly as much, feel nearly as slick, and grab nearly as many he...

By Elise Nakhnikian In one of those weird plot echoes that often reverberate in Hollywood, two horror films now showing -- C...

By Elise Nakhnikian Unlike that perpetually intense ping-pong player in the Movie Fone ad, I’m usually in the mood for just about any kind o...

Fifteen minutes into our interview, Etgar Keret is apologizing again. He is, he explains, doing last-minute preparation for ...

By Elise Nakhnikian Unlike most of the heroes and heroines of dance-contest movies, Raya Green does not dream of becoming a dancer. In fact ...

By Elise Nakhnikian Have you heard about that great Queen Latifah movie about a group of girlfriends working as janitors who decide to rob b...

By Elise Nakhnikian Speaking truth to power is never easy, but when you live under a totalitarian regime, simply saying what you think in pu...