Film
Pirate Radio 
The plot is thin, but hits from the Kinks, the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Turtles, and other great British bands from the 1960s will keep the audience rocking.
2012
Roland Emmerich's epic about the End of Days, predicted by the Mayan calendar, features all of the great cataclysms—devastating earthquakes, fiery volcanic eruptions, and massive tsunamis.
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wes Anderson has adapted Roald Dahl’s children’s tale about a mischievous fox at war with three curmudgeonly farmers with great affection and adventurousness.
New on DVD
Up; Say Anything: 20th Anniversary Edition; Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days
Will Ferrell: Overpaid has-been?
A new Forbes study names the comedian Tinsel Town's most overcompensated star. Some Hollywood-watchers agree
New Moon: Is Twilight's Bella Swan a bad role model?
Feminists are concerned that the Twilight heroine promotes bad relationships for young girls
The essential guide to Megan Fox
The New York Times Magazine has devoted 5,000 words to starlet Megan Fox. Here are the crucial 9 percent of them
New on DVD
The Taking of Pelham 123; Food, Inc.; North by Northwest: 50th Anniversary Edition
The Men Who Stare at Goats
Ewan McGregor plays an Iraq war reporter who meets a team of psychic U.S. spies—played by George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, and Kevin Spacey—who use their paranormal powers as weapons of war.
Disney’s A Christmas Carol
Robert Zemeckis uses state-of-the-art technology to revitalize Dickens' classic with animated characters and dazzling digital effects.
The Box
A couple, played by Cameron Diaz and James Marsden, is offered a million dollars to push a button that will result in the death of a complete stranger.
The 2012 prophecy: Doomsday, or bunk?
A Hollywood movie based on a Mayan prophecy is stoking fears that the world will end on Dec. 21, 2012. Is it time to panic?
Is 'Precious' racist?
Is the acclaimed film, 'Precious,' about an obese African American teen an inspiring story—or just sensationalist "poverty porn"?
New on DVD
Whatever Works; Monty Python: Almost the Truth; On the Road With Charles Kuralt: Set 1
Skin
Skin is based on the true story of a white family in South Africa that fights against the country’s rigid racial laws so their dark-skinned daughter can be classified as white.
This Is It
Pieced together from raw footage of Michael Jackson preparing for a series of comeback concerts, This Is It gives the audience rare glimpses of the “genius at work.”
Precious
Based on the best-selling novel Push by Sapphire, Precious is about a 350-pound illiterate teenager who has been impregnated twice by her father and is emotionally abused by her mother.
New on DVD
Cheri; I Am Because We Are; Black Adder, Remastered
Amelia
A biopic about an extraordinary woman, the resolutely ordinary Amelia “never takes flight,” said Leah Rozen in People.
Antichrist
In Lars von Trier’s “most extreme work yet,” a couple moves to the country and spirals into self-destruction after the death of their child.
