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Review: Twilight gives life to the undead

Twilight puts the life back into the undead
Twilight puts the life back into the undead

By: PETER KEOUGH | November 19, 2008

Review: Danny Boyle's Millionaire Slumdog

Slumdog Millionaire is a magical misery tour
Slumdog Millionaire is a magical misery tour

By: PETER KEOUGH | November 18, 2008

Review: A Christmas Tale at the IFC

A twisted Christmas stocking
Maybe Charles, who died of leukemia three decades ago, at the age of six, knew what he was doing.

By: PETER KEOUGH | November 18, 2008

Interview: Danny Boyle

Slumdog slumming?
Danny Boyle goes to extremes in Millionaire

By: PETER KEOUGH | November 18, 2008

Review: Quantum of Solace

Little Solace for Bond fans
Little Solace for Bond fans

By: PETER KEOUGH | November 14, 2008

Roberto Bolaño's 2666 may be the Great American Novel
Jorge Luis Borges wrote of the desert as a labyrinth without walls or center, unending and inescapable. That's a fair description of Roberto Bolaño's last work, the 912-page opus 2666 .

By: PETER KEOUGH | November 11, 2008

Synecdoche, no fun date movie

Doomsday is just a state of mind in Synecdoche, New York
The end of the world has always appealed to movie audiences, no more so than now that the prospect is looking more and more likely.

By: PETER KEOUGH | November 10, 2008

Iranian film festival brings the absurd, romantic

Sex and drugs rock the Boston Festival of Films from Iran
Sex and drugs rock the Boston Festival of Films from Iran

By: PETER KEOUGH | November 07, 2008

Kaufman on misogyny, stool-samples

Straight poop
People either love or hate Charlie Kaufman.

By: PETER KEOUGH | November 04, 2008

A salute to b-list films

Boston Phoenix film critics salute The Fly , King Creole , and The Conversation in The National Society of Film Critics latest tome.

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 31, 2008

Ballast crosses color lines with respect

Lance Hammer’s Delta dawn
Lance Hammer’s minimalist melodrama pushes William Faulkner into the 21st century or relocates Russell Banks from the Northeast to the Mississippi Delta.

By: PETER KEOUGH | November 04, 2008

Victimization at its finest in So Long

A crass and pretentious soap opera
So which portrayal of a victimized woman will win an Oscar this year?

By: PETER KEOUGH | November 04, 2008

Hammer pushes boundaries in Ballast

Delta force
Some filmmakers seek to penetrate the mystery of human existence through cinema.

By: PETER KEOUGH | November 04, 2008

Breakfast With Scot

Chaste, and lacking wit
Laurie Lind’s fuses Three Men and a Baby, La Vie en Rose , and every other gay rom-com ever made.

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 21, 2008

W. gets a B

Josh Brolin prevails over Oliver Stone’s shaky portrait

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 15, 2008

What Just Happened

Half-baked insider parody
“There isn’t a film there,” Ben tells the screenwriter. Sounds like What Just Happened .

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 28, 2008

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers

A slight but sometimes affecting trifle
The relationship between fathers and daughters is complicated enough without being further strained by Mao’s Cultural Revolution.

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 15, 2008

Putting up W’s

Screen depictions beat around the Bush
How is it that the least popular and possibly worst chief executive in American history has inspired no lasting impersonations?

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 15, 2008

Candide camera

Mike Leigh lightens up in Happy-Go-Lucky
There might be a dark side to Poppy (Sally Hawkins), the driving force behind Mike Leigh’s new film Happy-Go-Lucky , but damned if I could find it.

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 16, 2008

Miracle at St. Anna

Has Spike Lee lost his way?
What is the Miracle at St. Anna? Maybe that a filmmaker capable of the eloquence of When the Levees Broke could make such an incoherent movie.

By: PETER KEOUGH | October 01, 2008