NYT Movie Reviews

Cheap shots and mean spirits abound in “An American Carol,” a lazy satire of the radical left.

Cheap shots and mean spirits abound in “An American Carol,” a lazy satire of the radical left.

The striking union that briefly brought film and television production to a halt in India said that its demands had been met and that it would call off its strike.

“Ashes of Time Redux” is a martical-arts movie that took years to film and more years to restore.

The wonderful thing about “Rachel Getting Married” is how expansive it seems, in spite of the limits of its scope and the modesty of its ambitions.

“Allah Made Me Funny” looks at comedians who, through humor, aim to bring mainstream awareness to the position of Muslims within modern Western society.

The initial glimmer of hope “The Pleasure of Being Robbed” inspires with regard to the indie offshoot genre of mumblecore quickly dies.

Propelled by geysers of blood and tidal waves of neuroses, “Tokyo Gore Police” plumbs wounds both cultural and physical to deliver splatterific social satire.

“Beverly Hills Chihuahua” approaches but never quite achieves a truly spectacular level of absurdity.

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The crushingly unfunny and slopped-together “How to Lose Friends & Alienate People” has neither the ambition nor the intelligence to do justice to its source material.

“Flash of Genius” is a doggedly workmanlike variation of an old story: the lone crusader doing battle with the big bad establishment.

“Blindness” is not a great film. But it is, nonetheless, full of examples of what good filmmaking looks like.

So much pot is smoked in the agreeable drama “Humboldt County” that you may come away from it with a contact high.

The Screen Actors Guild’s negotiating committee voted late Wednesday to ask the union’s board to approve a strike authorization vote by its 120,000 members.

The National Federation of the Blind is planning to protest the film “Blindness” at more than 80 theaters nationwide, the organization has announced.

Hollywood meets Havana as the 46th New York Film Festival glides and sometimes stumbles into its second week.

As thin as an iPod Nano, as full of adolescent self-display as a Facebook page, “Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist” strives to capture what it’s like to be young right now.

“Eagle Eye” is the latest evidence that sometimes, at the movies, more is less.

“Eagle Eye” is the latest evidence that sometimes, at the movies, more is less.