Srtaff Reports

In the course of a long goodbye, emotions simultaneously sharpen and blur. We toast the soon-departed, gobble cake at the office party, talk about the good times until those memories...

Vampire Weekend, 'Contra' ** (out of 4) Vampire Weekend knows all about high expectations. The Brooklyn, N.Y., quartet's 2008 debut album was an Internet sensation months before it was officially...

"I was determined to be inflexible and intractable," filmmaker Eric Rohmer once wrote regarding his self-labeled "six moral tales' of love, philosophy and glancing desire, "because if you persist in...

Music sales topped a record 1.5 billion units in 2009, and overall music purchases were up 2.1 percent. Then why shouldn't the music industry be celebrating? In 2009 sales figures...

'The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond' **1/2 In 1957 Tennessee Williams wrote a screenplay titled "The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond," tailored for director Elia Kazan, Williams' valued theatrical and...

'Youth in Revolt' **1/2 "Youth in Revolt" isn't bad -- the cast is too good for it to be bad -- but archly comic coming-of-age fables are tricky things, and...

'The Sun' **** "The Sun" sheds only so much literal light on its chosen subject; it's a film of shadows and silence, the calm before and after the storm. But...

'Leap Year' *1/2 We're told by the "Leap Year" production notes that writers Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont are "well-known as Hollywood 'script doctors.'" Yikes. Is there a doctor for...

'Daybreakers' *** Everything that's good about "Daybreakers" bursts forth in the scene wherein a hematologist played by Ethan Hawke undertakes an experiment and injects a not-quite-FDA-approved synthetic liquid into the...

'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus' **** "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" is as unusual and idiosyncratic as its title. You'd expect no less from Terry Gilliam, and admirers of this...