Our Picks: Movies

Pick of the week: Disaster on the Atlantic coast!

Pick of the week: "The Bay," Barry Levinson's creepy found-footage disaster movie, gets a bizarre boost from Sandy

Andrew O'Hehir Friday, Nov 2, 2012 12:00 AM UTC
Entertainment Barry Levinson, Hurricane Sandy

Pick of the week: The overblown, funny, romantic “Cloud Atlas”

Pick of the week: Tom Hanks and Halle Berry play multiple roles in an epic fable of life and death

Andrew O'Hehir Thursday, Oct 25, 2012 10:50 PM UTC 25
Entertainment Tom Tykwer, cloud atlas

“The Sessions”: Is this unlikely sex fable Oscar-bound?

John Hawkes and Helen Hunt are marvelous in a generous fable of sex and disability -- but how truthful is it?

Andrew O'Hehir Friday, Oct 19, 2012 5:18 PM UTC
Life Helen Hunt, John Hawkes

Pick of the week: A dazzling, dreamlike head trip

Pick of the week: "Mulholland Drive" meets "The Matrix" in the crazy, gorgeous multi-genre dream "Holy Motors"

Andrew O'Hehir Friday, Oct 19, 2012 12:00 AM UTC
Entertainment Movies, Our Picks

“Brooklyn Castle”: An inner-city school where chess legends are made

A corrective to "Won't Back Down," this doc about tween chess champs proves public schools may not be hopeless

Andrew O'Hehir Wednesday, Oct 17, 2012 3:30 PM UTC
Life public schools

Pick of the week: Ben Affleck’s giddy Iran hostage thriller

Pick of the week: "Argo" is an outrageous, but mostly faithful portrait of smuggling American hostages out of Iran

Andrew O'Hehir Thursday, Oct 11, 2012 9:46 PM UTC
Entertainment Ben Affleck, Our Picks: Movies

Will whites see a black indie film like “Middle of Nowhere”?

This gorgeous, sober drama about the human costs of prison deserves a broader audience than it's likely to get

Andrew O'Hehir Thursday, Oct 11, 2012 6:25 PM UTC 10
Life Middle of Nowhere

“Seven Psychopaths”: A goofy, tormented near-masterpiece

Martin McDonagh channels Tarantino and Charlie Kaufman in this crazy-ambitious meta follow-up to "In Bruges"

Andrew O'Hehir Wednesday, Oct 10, 2012 8:24 PM UTC
Entertainment Martin McDonagh

“The Iran Job”: Love and basketball — in Shiraz?

A college hoops star goes to Shiraz — and stumbles into unexpected intrigue — in a surprising documentary

Andrew O'Hehir Tuesday, Oct 9, 2012 9:59 PM UTC
Entertainment Our Picks: Movies, Sports

Pick of the week: An earthy, sexy new “Wuthering Heights”

Pick of the week: Heathcliff is black and the verbiage is stripped away in this gorgeous new take on a classic

Andrew O'Hehir Friday, Oct 5, 2012 12:00 AM UTC 11
Entertainment Movies, Our Picks

“Wake in Fright”: A rediscovered Aussie classic

A dazzling, nightmarish Australian thriller of the '70s resurfaces at last, gruesome kangaroo hunt and all

Andrew O'Hehir Thursday, Oct 4, 2012 5:50 PM UTC
Entertainment Movies, Thrillers, Our Picks

“V/H/S”: Is a horror renaissance on the way?

Perhaps "film culture" isn't on the ropes: A new found-footage experiment suggests horror movies are hot again

Andrew O'Hehir Wednesday, Oct 3, 2012 9:15 AM UTC
Entertainment Movies, Horror, Our Picks

Pick of the week: A tough, smart time-travel thriller

Pick of the week: Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays the young Bruce Willis in Rian Johnson's dark, deceptive "Looper"

Andrew O'Hehir Friday, Sep 28, 2012 12:00 AM UTC
Entertainment Bruce Willis, Our Picks: Movies

“The Waiting Room”: Welcome to Romneycare 2.0

A saga of desperation, tragedy and unexpected heroism, this riveting documentary spends 24 hours in a public E.R.

Andrew O'Hehir Wednesday, Sep 26, 2012 10:34 PM UTC
Life Health Care, healthcare

How AIDS activism changed America

"How to Survive a Plague" tells the tragic and amazing tale of how a handful of '80s activists won a huge victory

Andrew O'Hehir Saturday, Sep 22, 2012 4:00 PM UTC 17
Life Our Picks: Movies, Our Picks

Pick of the week: An all-time cop-movie classic

Pick of the week: Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña take on East L.A. in the dark, thrilling "End of Watch"

Andrew O'Hehir Thursday, Sep 20, 2012 9:01 PM UTC
Entertainment Jake Gyllenhaal, Police

“Wallflower”: A lost John Hughes teen flick

Bowie. The Smiths. Angst. "Perks of Being a Wallflower" captures its era perfectly, missing only Matthew Broderick

Andrew O'Hehir Wednesday, Sep 19, 2012 7:47 PM UTC
Entertainment Ezra Miller, Stephen Chbosky

“The Master”: A forbidding portrait of L. Ron Hubbard’s America

Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix are amazing in "The Master," Paul Thomas Anderson's gorgeous cult fable

Andrew O'Hehir Friday, Sep 14, 2012 8:18 PM UTC 21
Entertainment Joaquin Phoenix, Movies

Pick of the week: Baseball’s secret Zen fraternity

Pick of the week: "Knuckleball!" explores baseball's weirdest pitch, and R.A. Dickey's unlikely quest for glory

Andrew O'Hehir Friday, Sep 14, 2012 12:00 AM UTC
Entertainment Our Picks, Our Picks: Movies

“Detropia”: Can Detroit be saved?

The directors of the gorgeous, haunting "Detropia" on why the hipster invasion can't rescue the Motor City

Andrew O'Hehir Friday, Sep 7, 2012 5:45 PM UTC
Life Our Picks, Our Picks: Movies

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