Nathan Gelgud

Melancholia opens Friday (see times below) Our rating: In Woody Allen’s Annie Hall, a preteen Alvy Singer sits in a doctor’s office, too depressed to do his homework. “What’s the point?” asks Alvy. The dialogue is precise: Alvy says, “The universe is everything. And if it’s expanding then someday it will break apart and that […]

My Week with Marilyn — opening postponed at press time Our rating: In the on-screen notes that close out My Week With Marilyn, in which Michelle Williams portrays Marilyn Monroe at work on the British production The Prince and the Showgirl, we learn what became of the principal characters. After Showgirl, Monroe was in Some […]

Restless opens Friday (see times below) Our rating: Restless is a poignant, corny and touching teen romance that follows the three-month relationship of Enoch (Henry Hopper) and Annabel (Mia Wasikowska). Enoch is a habitual funeral crasher, which has him getting accused of lacking respect for the dead. Director Gus Van Sant, who remade Hitchcock’s Psycho […]

Sophie’s friend tells her that a gold chain around a man’s neck is a sign that he’s “ready to fuck.” Now, there is the type of woman who knows this, and there is the type of woman who thinks that a chain is simply a piece of jewelry. Sophie responds that she’s always thought of […]

Attack the Block opens Friday at the Colony Theatre Our rating: Attack the Block, the debut film from the English comedy writer and performer Joe Cornish, appears subversive alongside a collage of friendly conventions like this summer’s other teens-versus-aliens flick, Super 8. But in the context of the riots that recently occurred in tough English […]

Another Earth opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: One of the best things about Another Earth is that, without making a big deal of itI don’t think writer-director Mike Cahill could show off even if he wanted toit’s genuinely unpredictable. It’s a movie about the discovery of another planet, identical to […]

Sarah’s Key opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: Sarah’s Key tells the story of Julia (Kristin Scott Thomas), an American expat journalist in Paris who discovers that the apartment she’s about to move into has a deeply unsettling connection to the past. While researching a story about the Vel’ d’Hiv roundup […]

Queen to Play opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: In Queen to Play,Hélène (Sandrine Bonnaire), a melancholy but proud maid, catches a glimpse through gauzy curtains of a sultry brunette playing chess on a balcony. Soon, she’s so obsessed with the game that she’s pretending little pieces of dough are bishops […]

Midnight in Paris opens Friday in select theaters (see times below) Our rating: The subject of Midnight in Paris is the appeal of a romanticized past and the attendant nostalgia for something that never existed. Despite its feathery texture and thin characterizations, Woody Allen’s new comedy touches on difficult paradoxes of being in love with […]