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By Cinematical staff Gentlemen Broncos could have been great. It's about a teenage boy (Michael Angarano) whose fantasy novel featuring an underdog hero on a nonsensical planet (Sam Rockwell) is stolen by not only his washed-up hero author (Jemaine Clement) at a crash-course writing camp, but two insuffer...

By Peter Hall Quirkiness only carries so far. Napoleon Dynamite, the film that ushered in the career of Gentlemen Broncos director Jared Hess, is enjoyable because it cherishes the nervous-twitches of puberty, identity crisis, and the weird kind of people who worship at Walmart strip malls. The dire...

By Jeffrey M. Anderson In comedy, there is a function known as a "straight man." Bud Abbott of Abbott and Costello and Oliver Hardy of Laurel and Hardy are the best-known examples of this. Their job is basically to be the springboard for the goofier member of the team, as well as other, more commonplace duties like r...

By Jeffrey M. Anderson How they're friends is one of the movie's greatest mysteries, aside from, you know, the one about how it ever got made. These two morons react to everything with bug eyes and jaws agape, sometimes comically screaming and sometimes not. Cregger is a self-righteous, hypocrite prig, and Moor...

By rss@youtube.com (FreeMovieKey) Release Date: November 12, 2008 (limited; wide: Dec. 19) Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures Director: Danny Boyle Screenwriter: Simon Beaufoy Starring: Dev Patel, Madhur Mittal, Freida Pinto, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan Genre: Drama MPAA Rating: R (for some violen...

By Erik Davis The feel-good, Fox Searchlight-y film of the festival, 500 Days of Summer is like When Harry Met Sally ... if Sally turned around and repeatedly stabbed Harry in the heart with a toothpick. It's an anti-fairytale about a boy who falls head over dress shoes for the kind of girl who doesn't believ...

Christian Science Monitor  NJ - Small, poignant and perfect, this is the year's best film. "The Wrestler," a Fox Searchlight Pictures release, is rated R for violence, sexuality/nudity, ... The Wrestler - Movie Review h all 12 news articles

By Cinematical staff Filed under: Drama, Sports, Awards, Casting, Theatrical Reviews, Festival Reports, Celebrities and Controversy, Fox Searchlight, Oscar Watch, Toronto International Film Festival, Venice Film Festival We're reposting our review of The Wrestler form the Toronto International F...

By LAT Blogs If you're running an Oscar campaign for a low-budget movie that needs all the help it can get from rave reviews, as Fox Searchlight is doing right now with "The Wrestler," the very last thing you want in life is... Photo of Mickey Rourke in "The Wrestler" by Niko Tavernise / Fox Searchlight

In this image released by Fox Searchlight pictures, Dev Patel, left, and Anil Kapoor are shown in a scene from "Slumdog Millionaire." Given its recent history, Mumbai is a city in need of a valentine – even one as warts-and-all gritty as "Slumdog Millionaire."

By Brian Strangely, Slumdog Millionaire feels both like a step up in some respects while also more of the same in others. It’s a film about a young Indian man, Jamal, who grows up in desperate poverty to become a grand prize contestant on the TV game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” One question aw...

By Eric D. Snider It paid off, too -- the acclaim for the film was nearly universal. (Read Cinematical's James Rocchi's rave review here.) Now, in advance of the film's limited release on Dec. 31 (just in time to qualify for Rourke's inevitable Oscar nomination), Fox Searchlight has released the first trail...

By James Rocchi But don't believe the hype -- or, more importantly, look past it; if a complicated, messy personal life were all it took to deliver a great performance, Paris Hilton and O.J. Simpson would have more Oscars than Katharine Hepburn. Rourke's work as Randy is physical, invested, powerful and sp...

By Eric D. Snider Slumdog Millionaire, about a Mumbai street kid who strikes it rich on an Indian game show before having his knowledge called into question, will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next week. And now it'll hit multiplexes, too, on Nov. 28, thanks to a deal hammered out this...

By Peter Martin David Ayer's Street Kings (Fox Searchlight) should be included, I suppose, because it's distributed by an studio specialty division known for its indie releases, though not much about the police drama screams "indie." By the per-screen numbers, it finished third, earning an average o...

By Erik Davis There are a couple different ways to approach reviewing The Darjeeling Limited. I can look at it from the mainstream audience's point of view, or I can look at it from the point of view of a long-time Wes Anderson fan -- which, coincidentally, I happen to be. The first thing my friend said to me a...

By Ryan Stewart It's made clear early on that her character suffered some kind of off-the-charts post-partum depression after the birth of Joshua (Jacob Kogan), and as the film opens, she's just given birth to a second child, one that mom and dad silently hope will not grow to have the demeanor of an adole...