Duck Season’s a Mexican hangout movie with two extra guests. Plus: Colin and Salma’s insult-fest.

A very inside look at James Carville & Co.’s tragic electioneering. Plus: Bruce Willis, bleary action star.

New York’s David Edelstein and Hollywood’s Lynda Obst engage in their annual dissection of the Oscars.

New York critic David Edelstein and Hollywood producer Lynda Obst on the one big surprise of the evening.

The racial drama Freedomland is heavy-handed yet wrenching. Plus: Better living through amnesia!

The vampire thriller Night Watch is both hard and fun to follow. Plus: Oh, non, it’s Steve Martin’s Clouseau.

Jonathan Demme syncs up perfectly with Neil Young. Plus: Harrison Ford as Indiana Cybergeek, and Soderbergh’s wobbly Bubble.

Why has America gone nuts for blood, guts, and sadism?

Tristram Shandy’s a delightful work of postmodern abandon, but Manderlay is better left alone.

Boris Karloff could be the most fiendish bogeyman imaginable but also the grandfather reading you the story of that bogeyman in the safety of your bedroom.