Allen's `Dream' examines life's savagery
126814
Woody Allen's latest film touches on all the things he likes to ponder Â that there's no God, that life is savage and fleeting, that anyone potentially can get away with unspeakable acts if they don't have a conscience to bother them.
398314
Sigmund Freud may have been right all along. Dreams really could be our unconscious minds giving us a glimpse of our deepest, darkest desires.
221457
"Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal," the highly contested anti-Kerry documentary, is a histrionic, often specious and deeply sad film.
115028
In âRoS Indexical,â Yvonne Rainer hopes to recreate a riot â or at the very least to make an alluring comment on nostalgia and what it means to be radical.
517129
ÂHeroesÂ acts out the fantasy that supernatural forces can improve life. ÂRunawayÂ has a bleaker message: One little mistake can really mess it up.
591245
âVitusâ places uncomfortable impulses in opposition, then dramatizes them in the most unchallenging way imaginable.
208285
Lifetimeâs two-hour movie is an uneasy combination of crime thriller, romantic melodrama and snuff film that doesnât ask us to suspend our disbelief so much as overcome our gag reflex.
338666
Urban students see glimmers of their own evolving identities and dreams in F. Scott Fitzgeraldâs novel.
488808
Neil Burger's screen adaptation of a short story by Steven Millhauser gives Edward Norton a role that perfectly fits his disturbing inscrutability.
9754
This innovative chronicle of a truly modern romance conveys, in a painful, darkly humorous way, a variety of ultra-identifiable truths.
28839
There is plenty of sorrow to be found in âInto the Wild.â But though the filmâs structure may be tragic, its spirit is anything but.
179006
ALICE SPRINGS, Australia  - Aborigine Daryl Allen, 60, sits cross-legged in the dirt dreaming of the good times when his outback people lived hunting kangaroo and working as cattlemen, instead of drinking themselves to death.
758047
Not since Spinal Tap has there been a sharper satire of cinematic mythomania
157309
In his remarkable new memoir, the composer Allen Shawn unsparingly dissects his own phobias and examines research into the psychology of his affliction.
644114
Life hardens us and art desensitizes us. Is the culture of violence turning us into creatures without empathy? Commentary by Tony Long.
758263
Mr. Allen's unrelentingly glum drama at the Atlantic Theater Company about defeated dreamers in 1950's Brooklyn is filled with gloomy clichÃ©s.
223683
With a lifetimeÂs worth of stinging observations and sharp insights, Gore VidalÂs new memoir is unmissable.