Christopher Orr

Christopher Orr is a senior editor and principal film critic at The Atlantic. He has written on movies for The New Republic, LA Weekly, Salon, The New York Sun, and others, and has worked as an editor for numerous publications.

The Movie Review: 'Hitman'

The Movie Review: 'Hitman' More »

The Movie Review: 'Enchanted'

The Movie Review: 'Enchanted' More »

The Movie Review: 'Redacted'

Atrocities More »

The Movie Review: 'Lions for Lambs'

The Movie Review: Lions For Lambs More »

The Movie Review: 'No Country for Old Men'

Don't mess with the Coens' Texas More »

The Movie Review: 'American Gangster'

The movie review More »

The Movie Review: 'Before the Devil Knows You're Dead'

The movie review: An incendiary Philip Seymour Hoffman makes "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" a masterpiece More »

The Movie Review: 'Sleuth'

Harold Pinter and Kenneth Branagh's lazy remake of Sleuth More »

The Movie Review: 'Rendition'

The Too-Obvious Moral Politics of 'Rendition' More »

The Movie Review: 'Gone Baby Gone'

Ben Affleck Nails His Directorial Debut. (His Little Brother Helped.) More »

The Movie Review: 'Elizabeth: The Golden Age'

The Strange, Terrible Sequel to Elizabeth More »

The Mini-Review: 'The Heartbreak Kid'

Is the Farrelly brothers' remake of The Heartbreak Kid supposed to be a romantic comedy? I'm not sure, and I fear neither are they. More »

The Movie Review: 'Lust, Caution'

She Movies in Mysterious Ways: Ang Lee's Lust, Caution More »

The Movie Review: 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford'

It's the best movie of 2007 (so far) More »

The Movie Review: 'The Hottest State'

Ethan Hawke's 'The Hottest State': The Worst Movie You Won't See This Year More »

The Movie Review: 'The Kingdom'

Los Angelenos of Arabia More »

The Movie Review: 'The Brave One'

The Brave One: What is Wrong with Jodie Foster? More »

The Movie Review: 'The Hunting Party'

Richard Gere's Hunting Party Shoots Blanks More »

The Movie Review: 'Eastern Promises'

The Brutal Charms of Viggo's Eastern Promises More »

The Movie Review: 'In the Valley of Elah'

Paul Haggis's New Movie Takes on the Iraq War More »

The Biggest Story in Photos

Protests Spread Across Brazil

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