The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Can the film really live up to such a buildup? Yes. Director Niels Arden Oplev has crafted a taut thriller that balances the details of a complex murder investigation with powerful character development. More »

Green Zone
Somehow the Iraq movie canon keeps growing. Now Paul Greengrass enters the fray with "Green Zone," a film that is part action flick, part political thriller, and all fail. More »

Alice in Wonderland
Not that there was any doubt that, when it came to restaging the 1865 Lewis Carroll classic for a 21st century sensibility, Tim Burton would be the man for the job. More »

El beso del adiós (Kiss Bessemer Goodbye)
This by-the-books family drama has some laughs but not much else. More »

Happy in the Poorhouse
Derek Ahonen's new play shifts between camp and contemplation in an uneven take on the dream deferred. More »

Looped
Playwright Matthew Lombardo stretches a showbiz anecdote into a two-hour play. Fortunately, Valerie Harper delivers a tour de force performance and almost makes up for the show's thinness. More »

The Rose Bowl Queens
This easygoing tuner by Barbara Hart and Cheryl Gimbel (collaborators on book, music, and lyrics) is set in a rural Texas bowling alley, the Rose Bowl, where beer-swillin', two-steppin', and romancin' take precedence over knocking down pins. More »

Liberty Inn: The Musical
The spirit of Molière farce is alive and well in Dakin Matthews and B. T. Ryback's saucy musical adaptation of Carlo Goldoni's French play "La Locandiera" ("The Landlady"). More »

The Diviners
"The Diviners" is a lyrical fable set in bucolic America, a fascinating yarn that bristles with complex psychological undercurrents and a hint of Greek tragedy. More »