Movies

Kidman’s Birthday Girl sets a trap, but for whom?

Even with Schwartzman, Slackers swindles its audience.

Rural France is terrorized by a Jim Henson creature in the brilliant, complex Brotherhood of the Wolf.

Sean Penn plays retarded for Oscar, and audiences aren’t rewarded.

In this Monte Cristo, revenge is a dish best served reheated.

Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down pays grim, gritty homage to real-life warriors.

The 76-year-old director returns to form with the excellent mystery Gosford Park.

Channing and Stiles are stranded, and their face-off makes for nasty Business.

Anderson’s film is like its characters: flawed genius.

Impostor ponders big themes, but it’s not the real thing.