FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES All Kiss-and-Tell and Wink-and-Nod at a Crowded Dinner Party By A. O. SCOTT Published: August 26, 2010 Quite a lot happens in “Change of Plans,” Danièle Thompson’s crowded comedy about a Paris dinner party and its aft …

Maybe Fatih Akin’s “Soul Kitchen” shouldn’t come as the joyous surprise that it does. Most of its ingredients can be found in his previous films: the humor and passion of “Head-On,” the don’t-give-a-damn daring of “The Edge Of Heaven,” the phenomenal energ …

FROM THE WASHINGTON POST ONLINE: Critic Rating: THREE STARS A woman lost and found amid the chaos By Ann Hornaday Friday, August 20, 2010 Patricia Clarkson has a voice like toasted pecans drenched in bourbon. Sultry and refined, classically beau …

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES: One Restaurant’s History, Spiked Desserts and All By STEPHEN HOLDEN Published: August 19, 2010 Spaghetti, spinach and French fries, all smothered in cream sauce: the menu at Soul Kitchen, a decrepit restaurant in a conver …

By Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES - “Cairo Time” stars Patricia Clarkson in a lovely and languid flirtation with a foreign land, an exotic man and the possibility that, long after the future seems set in stone, it might not be quite so …

The Los Angeles Times’ Betsy Sharky: Todd Solondz is a shock jock of a filmmaker, a writer-director who always keeps a glass of cold water for throwing at the audience handy. Which almost but not quite prepares you for “Life During Wartime,” his latest …

FROM SALON.COM: “The Killer Inside Me”: Much ado about misogyny “The Killer Inside Me’s” violence will shock and offend. But it’s a crucial element of an important, flawed film As was already clear when I wrote about the Tribeca Film Festival premi …

From EW.com: “This rapier-sharp comedy of social manners from French auteur Agnès Jaoui (The Taste of Others) stars Jaoui as an overbearing feminist writer angling for a political career. Jaoui’s longtime collaborator, Jean-Pierre Bacri, plays a self-a …

Review: SF CHRONICLE by Mick LaSalle “A good documentary about Joan Rivers would have been enough. Rivers is worth her own documentary. She’s a comedian of historical importance, the most successful female stand-up of all time, with an influential care …

From his website: BY ROGER EBERT / May 5, 2010 It’s not death itself that’s so bad. It’s what you might have to go through to get there. No horror film I’ve seen inflicts more terrible things on its victims than “The Human Centipede.” You would  …