Four smart alternatives to the summer blockbuster.

One time, I was in this store, and the woman behind the counter said, "You're that actress who cries all the time, right?"

'Girls About Town' is a highlight of Film Forum’s raucous new series “Paramount Before the Code,” a four-week trot starting June 24 through many of the racier movies made before the Hollywood Production Code clamped down on depictions of boozing, infidelity, and a fetishistic obsession with garter belts.

The spanking-new (brand-extending! Welsh-rarebit-serving!) IFC Center stomps into downtown—and sends rivals into a competitive tizzy.

New on DVD: The Sopranos: Season 5, Jules et Jim, The Complete James Dean Collection, Be Cool, D.E.B.S, The Phantom of Liberty, Moonlighting: Seasons 1& 2, Stripes, The Machinist, The Agronomist, Fox Film Noir Series, Vol. 2

The identity of Deep Throat, according to Hollywood and real life.

A defense of Tom Cruise in his time of troubles.

I mean, strip away the cultural castings of anyone, and I think we really want the same things.

An achingly beautiful meditation on love and loss that’s one of the most compulsively watchable films in their collaborative history—think 'Alfie,' only in Cantonese, and with subtlety and compassion.

This summer, the kids’ movies are all grown up (but still plenty goofy).