By Adrian de la Touche [ Editor's Note: This is one of several Watchmen reviews/articles by House contributors. Check throughout the week for more.] When I hear "American Girl," I am reminded, immediately, of Buffalo Bill, and his bumptious endorsement of skin lotion. A few bars from "Don’t Stop B...

By Dan Callahan [ Two Lovers opens this Friday in theaters.] The buried themes in James Gray's fourth film, Two Lovers , slowly emerge from its accumulation of quotidian, seemingly small details. After impulsively jumping off a bridge in the first scene, misfit Leonard (Joaquin Phoenix) enters a coz...

By Vadim Rizov [ Coraline is now playing in wide release.] How awesome is Coraline? So awesome. That's the Twitter review, and that's really all that needs to be said up front. Coraline is that rarest of creatures, the PG-rated kids' movie with no big scares (there's one "boo" moment, but it's prett...

By Andrew Schenker [ Serbis opens today at the Angelika Film Center in New York City. Click here for screening information.] Like Goodbye, Dragon Inn without the protective layer of nostalgia, Brillante Mendoza's Serbis crafts a self-contained world from a dilapidated movie house given more to gay c...

By Dan Callahan [ Revolutionary Road opens December 26th in limited release; wide release in January.] Richard Yates’ debut novel Revolutionary Road is a suitably bleak vision of fifties suburbia and Madison Avenue soullessness, but it’s much more than that; as Yates remorselessly tightens the s...

By Lauren Wissot [ Wendy and Lucy opens today for a two-week run at Manhattan's Film Forum. Click here for screening information.] Wendy and Lucy , Kelly Reichardt’s existential road movie starring Michelle Williams as the titular Wendy, an Indiana woman heading to find work in Alaska, is the Amer...

By N.P. Thompson Impossible to follow, and even less possible to admire or to give a damn about, Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir waltzes in on the theme of what happens to young men, doltish, subservient, and carefree, once they’ve become haunted, middle-aged men, no longer able to live with or j...

By John Lichman [ Punisher: War Zone is now playing in theaters.] There's definitely an argument to be made that 2008 was the point when most of the world recognized that a decent cast and a somewhat coherent story could a "comic book movie" make (to say nothing of box office returns). As Iron Man i...

By Dan Callahan [ Milk opens in theaters on Wednesday, November 26th.] Slain politician Harvey Milk was a gay pioneer and by all accounts a real mensch and role model, and his story was told in full for the documentary The Times of Harvey Milk . Now Gus Van Sant is trolling for awards with Milk , a ...

By Lauren Wissot [ Milk opens in theaters Wednesday, November 26th. Click here to read Lauren's Spout Blog coverage of the film's press conference.] Milk , Gus Van Sant’s labor of love biopic about civil rights leader Harvey Milk (the first openly gay man elected to higher office in the United Sta...