Movie Review | 'The Last King of Scotland': An Innocent Abroad, Seduced by a Madman
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Kevin Macdonald's queasily enjoyable fiction film creates a portrait of the Ugandan dictator Idi Amin from inside the palace walls.
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Sean Connery thinks a Scottish nation is a bonnie notion. How about Spain's Basque country becoming a REAL country? And what's wrong with a People's Republic of Vermont?
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The actor-director delivers another soul-stirring film.
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New on DVD: Oscar-winner Helen Mirren's seventh 'Prime Suspect.'
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A big-budget German film about the last days of Adolf Hitler has dared to shatter a lingering taboo about history's greatest monster -- portraying him as human.
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One film that caught the fancy of just about everyone at the recently
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KAMPALA , Uganda -- She was 11 time zones away from Hollywood, but movie buff Marion E. Busingye could not wait to see whether "The Last King of Scotland" -- a rare and terrifying look at Uganda's bloody political history -- would win an Oscar.
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Debased, infantile and reckless in the extreme, this compendium of body bravado and malfunction makes for some of the most fearless, liberated and cathartic comedy in modern movies.
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Alexander, Oliver Stoneâs biopic of Alexander the Great, violates that rule spectacularly, not only because it nauseates us with repeated assertions of the king and warriorâs greatness, but
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It's good to be the king, but not always.
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Todd FieldÂs superb film adaptation of the novel by Tom Perrotta result is challenging, accessible and hard to stop thinking about.
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What does Guillermo del Toro's brilliant fantasy film say about politics in an age of media fairy tales? In Table of Malcontents.
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A film about love and art, about passing time and time passing, âAvenue Montaigneâ is a humble pleasure.
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Whether you like or loathe Bruno Dumontâs movies, his unsettling vision of humanity stripped of cultural finery feels profoundly truthful.
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The Hitler of the film is almost a heroic figure who refuses to flee or capitulate. A new film about Hitler&#39;s last days is a conventional human drama that is dividing German opinion, writes Mark Landler.
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In a movie culture filled with fake death and callous killing, âDying at Graceâ is not just a shock to the system; itâs an accusation.
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I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn't want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I was just across teh street from a movie theater and was just in time for the start of a movie that lots of people had been telling me to see. So I went. The movie -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had no idea what it was about until the movie started, then I remembered hearing a Fresh Air show about it and finding it too painful to listen to. Now here I was in the theater, not just being asked to listen to it, but being asked to live it. Through some very wonderful film-making, you feel as if what is happening to the main character is happening to you. Or more accurately, probably, you get the slightest hint of what it's like to be this person. My immediate impulse, one which I gave serious consideration to, was to pack up my things and leave. Anything would be better than spending three hours living this guy's life.  Two things happen over time: 1. You get over it. 2. They change perspective, and instead of being inside his body, you move outside it.  I think those two things are the story we all live as we mature and learn to live inside our own bodies, with their limits. You learn to step outside and see the humor in your predicament. The main character says he lives in a diving bell because it's as hard for him to communicate with other people as it would be at the bottom of the ocean inside a diving bell. The movie teaches that it's not much easier for the rest of us, even though we can manipulate symbols better. On the other hand, of course it is. The film develops a relationship between the hero and his father, between the hero and his own children, his ex-wife, his lover.  We strive for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. But it may be ridiculously easy to find the only meaning that exists, without language, without intellect, by just being. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly should probably be the picture of the year for 2007, it's that good. But like all great art it shows you something truthful about yourself, and you may or may not want to see it.