Andrew O'Hehir has written about movies, books and culture for Salon since 1996 and has covered the independent film world in Salon's Beyond the Multiplex column since 2003. He has written for many national and international publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, US Weekly, the Times of London, Sight and Sound and others. He was editor-in-chief of San Francisco's SF Weekly in the mid-'90s and later a senior editor at SPIN magazine. He is the author of two produced plays and (like so many other journalists) an almost-completed novel. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., with his wife, Leslie Kauffman, and their two children.

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Thursday, Mar 11, 2010 21:30 EST

"Mother": A brilliant Hitchcock mystery, made in Korea

A tormented mom turns cop, lawyer and shrink in a twisty, creepy mystery from the director of "The Host"
Wednesday, Mar 10, 2010 16:45 EST

Banned from the screening room!

In the latest scuffle between critics and studios, a New York Press writer is barred from a Noah Baumbach preview
Monday, Mar 8, 2010 16:09 EST

Oscars: Hollywood's war against itself (continued)

Oscar voters picked the lowest-grossing winner in history -- artistic integrity or commercial suicide?
Friday, Mar 5, 2010 13:06 EST

"Brooklyn's Finest": Dark knights of the NYPD

Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke and Don Cheadle are doomed cops on a collision course in this pulpy melodrama
Thursday, Mar 4, 2010 15:05 EST

"The Secret of Kells": Oscar's dazzling Irish surprise

Animator Tomm Moore talks about turning Celtic art and fantasy into Oscar season's unexpected delight
Wednesday, Mar 3, 2010 14:59 EST

Oscar showdown: Dolphins vs. free-range cattle

Save the dolphins! Save the corporate-slave cows! In the most political of Oscar categories, voters must choose
Friday, Feb 26, 2010 20:20 EST

Pierce Brosnan on Polanski, Tony Blair and "The Ghost Writer"

The debonair ex-007 talks about playing a disgraced prime minister for a disgraced director
Thursday, Feb 25, 2010 20:20 EST

"A Prophet": Brilliant fable of a crime lord's rise

In this dazzling French Oscar nominee, a polite young Arab convict rises above racism, cruelty and his own crimes
Monday, Feb 22, 2010 20:20 EST

Oscar shorts: Wallace & Gromit in Chernobyl

This year's Academy-nominated shorts feature a gangsta Ronald McDonald and a death-haunted NYC apartment
Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 20:20 EST

"Shutter Island": Scorsese goes crazy!

Trapped in a mental hospital, in a hurricane! With a boiled Leo DiCaprio and a drugged-out Hardy Boys plot
Thursday, Feb 18, 2010 20:20 EST

"The Ghost Writer": Polanski strikes back

If audiences can get past the scandal surrounding it, the director's latest is a canny, claustrophobic thriller
Friday, Feb 12, 2010 20:20 EST

"Videocracy": Berlusconi's empire of boobs

A nightmarish documentary depicts contemporary Italy as a 24/7 realm of "Girls Gone Wild" celebrity fascism
Thursday, Feb 11, 2010 20:20 EST

"Valentine's Day": The pain of L.A.'s gorgeous and lovelorn

Garry Marshall's holiday rom-com made me want to flee to a happier place -- like an Iranian prison
Friday, Feb 5, 2010 20:20 EST

"Ajami": Israel's gritty answer to "Crash"

A pulse-pounding, Oscar-nominated Israeli-Arab collaboration captures the street-level reality of conflict
Thursday, Feb 4, 2010 15:04 EST

The "Red Riding" trilogy: '70s England as hell

David Peace's genre-shifting novels hit the screen as a gripping, operatic trilogy of murder and corruption
Tuesday, Feb 2, 2010 12:03 EST

The Oscar nominations: Trying to please everyone

Oscar noms spread the love: Sandra Bullock? Check! Giant alien prawns? Check! And, oh yeah, Jim & Kathryn too
Monday, Feb 1, 2010 12:29 EST

Best of Sundance: Year of the woman

Female directors dominate Redford's winter showcase -- and my list of the 2010 fest's best films
Friday, Jan 29, 2010 17:29 EST

Sundance: Searing portrait of a top lobbyist

Oscar-winner Alex Gibney talks about his new Jack Abramoff exposé -- and a nation ruled by big money Video
Friday, Jan 29, 2010 06:29 EST

Sundance: Guy-sex and the modern lesbian

Director Lisa Cholodenko on her pro-family, lesbian-marriage comedy (the one with hot hetero sex)
Thursday, Jan 28, 2010 12:29 EST

Sundance: John Lennon, angry young man

British hit "Nowhere Boy" delivers a compelling family melodrama about the future Beatle's Liverpool teen years
Wednesday, Jan 27, 2010 03:28 EST

Sundance: Terror comedy blows up!

British TV provocateur Chris Morris on "Four Lions," the outrageous jihadi farce that has Park City abuzz
Tuesday, Jan 26, 2010 13:27 EST

Sundance, "The Kids Are All Right": Scenes from a lesbian marriage

Julianne Moore and Annette Bening star in one of the most compelling portraits of American coupling in film history
Monday, Jan 25, 2010 13:23 EST

Sundance: Girl power, circa 1975

Kristen Stewart rocks icy Park City as Joan Jett; elusive Banksy's film debut; those wacky British jihadis!
Sunday, Jan 24, 2010 11:25 EST

Sundance: An Ozark noir; Pat Tillman revealed

A dynamite backwoods crime thriller; Pat Tillman's life and death; Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley make a monster
Saturday, Jan 23, 2010 02:58 EST

Sundance: Sex, death and real estate

Nicole Holofcener's edgy, delicate "Please Give" and Gaspar Noe's hallucinatory "Enter the Void"
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