Lou Lumenick, a native of Astoria, Queens who's been covering movies since 1981, is The Post's chief film critic. He's covered the Cannes, Toronto, Sundance and New York Film Festivals many times. Lou co-curated the Turner Classic Movies film series "Shadows of Russia'' and has appeared on the network as an on-air guest programmer. He will introduce "Design for Living'' on April 29 at the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood.
Credit filmmaker Justin Lerner with getting an affecting per formance out of Evan Sneider, a longtime friend with Down syndrome but no prior acting experience, in the emotionally manipulative and problematic melodrama...
July 15, 2011 12:00 AM
The 21st century corollary to George Kaufman's maxim that "satire is what closes Saturday night" might well be that indie black comedies -- which almost never make money but continue to attract name actors -- are what...
July 15, 2011 12:00 AM
Movie series almost always peak in their first or second installments. But that hasn’t been the case with “Harry Potter,” which started off unpromisingly (if lucratively) — and, after a number of ups and downs, has...
July 12, 2011 12:00 AMJoseph Dorman's documentary starts off looking like a glorified DVD extra for "Fiddler on the Roof," but it eventually becomes a far more gemutlich portrait of the creator of Tevye the Milkman, who took the pen name of...
July 08, 2011 12:00 AMThere have been many untraditional film adaptations of Shakespeare's, but few have been as unorthodox as this one, which plays out as a star-crossed romance between rival Satmar Jewish sects on the mean streets of...
July 08, 2011 12:00 AM
John Carpenter's first film since the unfortunate "Ghosts of Mars" a decade ago is a dull, by-the-numbers psych-ward horror thriller that's sadly a lot closer in quality to "Sucker Punch" than "Shutter Island."...
July 08, 2011 12:00 AM
Kevin James, in the title role, solicits romantic advice from computer-generated animals voiced by Nick Nolte, Sylvester Stallone, Cher and co-producer Adam Sandler in "Zookeeper," an alleged comedy from Frank Coraci,...
July 08, 2011 12:00 AMA gore-filled guilty pleasure receiving a token release en route to DVD, Jonathan English's "Ironclad" is basically a sequel to Ridley Scott's unfairly maligned "Robin Hood" with a 1215 version of "The Magnificent Seven...
July 07, 2011 10:58 PM
It’s been quite a few years since we’ve seen a vehicle for a pair of Oscar winners — Hollywood prom king and queen Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts — as disarmingly modest as “Larry Crowne,” a romantic comedy about a newly...
July 01, 2011 12:00 AM
Dinner and a movie have long been separate activities in New York, unless you were doing them at home. That’s starting to change — and today in Williamsburg, the city gets its first movie theater with table service. I...
July 01, 2011 12:00 AM
So Harold Camping got a few details about the Rapture wrong. The Apocalypse arrives today in the form of “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” a movie guaranteed to strike worldwide audiences deaf and dumb with a cunning...
June 29, 2011 12:00 AM
Good performances and a look at lesser-known corners of Los Angeles are the big assets in this drama about an illegal Mexican alien (Demian Bichir, Castro in "Che") and his lazy 14-year-old son (newcomer Jose Julian),...
June 24, 2011 12:00 AMBasically an IMAX-style na ture documentary shown on regular-size screens at nearly twice the customary length, Nick Stringer's documentary about the 25-year migratory cycle of loggerhead turtles has some remarkable...
June 24, 2011 12:00 AM
Justin Timberlake dry-humps Cameron Diaz while both are fully clothed in a bizarre scene that serves as a fairly convenient metaphor for the whole of “Bad Teacher” — a fitfully amusing comedy that promises far more...
June 24, 2011 12:00 AMJosh Shelov's smug and smutty farce employs an estimable cast in an only sporadically funny story about a couple from Delaware who want to get their 6-year-old daughter into an exclusive Manhattan private school (after...
June 24, 2011 12:00 AMYou have to admire the tenacity of Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley, who spent seven years documenting the sadly doomed grass-roots struggle to stop the Atlantic Yards project, a development boondoggle built around a...
June 17, 2011 12:00 AM
His face largely pasted on a computer-generated body, poor Ryan Reynolds acts only from the neck up in “Green Lantern,” a relentlessly silly superhero flick with eyeball-rolling dialogue — set in vast, familiar-looking...
June 17, 2011 12:00 AM
Not exactly stop-the- presses material, Andrew Rossi's "Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times" is basically a carefully airbrushed and authorized portrait of the Gray Lady during 14 months when there was serious...
June 17, 2011 12:00 AM
Justifiably lambasted when it premiered at Sundance as "Homework," Hollywood's equivalent of the Witness Protection Program may have provided a new title to hide under. But there's still no good reason to suffer...
June 17, 2011 12:00 AMThe first film from legendary cult director Monte Hellman ("Two-Lane Blacktop") since 1989's unfortunate "Silent Night, Deadly Night 3" -- written by Variety executive editor Steven Gaydos -- has a great setup but not...
June 10, 2011 12:00 AM
Ladies of a certain age who lunch will want to make a beeline after ward for the venerable Paris Theatre, where the new attraction is "Bride Flight" -- the kind of lush, epic romantic weepie that Hollywood used to...
June 10, 2011 12:00 AM
Put “The Goonies,” “E.T.,” “Close Encounters” and “War of the Worlds” in that blender from “Gremlins” — and transport the mixture back to 1979 in the “Back to the Future” DeLorean — and you get J.J. Abrams’ “Super 8.”...
June 09, 2011 12:00 AM
Yes, it's got a Jack Rus sell terrier who speaks in captions and cute animated interludes. Plus a cringe-worthy Halloween party where the hero, masquerading as Sigmund Freud, meets a potential romantic partner who...
June 03, 2011 12:00 AM
Surely the low-water mark in the recent tide of dismal wedding-themed comedies, actor Dermot Mulroney's painfully unfunny directing debut improbably casts Mandy Moore as a newlywed shrink confronted with the breakup of...
June 03, 2011 12:00 AMA pair of great actors (Maria Bello, Michael Sheen) can do only so much for Shawn Ku's grim little pageant of misery, the latest in a long line of movies inspired by the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School. They...
June 03, 2011 12:00 AM
Ambitious and wildly experimental, Terrence Malick's often glorious, sometimes exasperating "The Tree of Life" tackles Big Questions that likely haven't even occurred to Michael Bay and the other purveyors of this...
May 27, 2011 12:00 AM
Not generally the biggest fan of gross-out humor, I found “The Hangover” gut-bustingly funny — it re-invented the form with an unpredictable, subversive, take-no-prisoners approach that helped make it the most...
May 25, 2011 12:05 AMThis colorful and disarming documentary by David Sigal puts a face on the perils of gentrification: Florent Morellet, an ebullient Frenchman who opened his epony-mous diner back when the Meat packing District was a...
May 20, 2011 12:00 AMRadio humorist and "Simpsons" voice artist Harry Shearer turns serious as the director of a doc umentary that makes a damning case that bungling by the Army Corps of Engineers was responsible for the levee failures...
May 20, 2011 12:00 AM
Owen Wilson turns out to be the best Woody Allen surrogate by far in the Woodman's "Midnight in Paris," a lightly amusing fantasy about a hack screenwriter who gets to hobnob with artistic legends in the City of Light...
May 20, 2011 12:00 AM
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