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  Men in Black 3

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Can any one of the millions of Americans who saw Men in Black 2 in 2002 describe its plot today? A single scene? I saw both MIB movies upon their... More >>

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  Moonrise Kingdom

  By Aaron Hillis

  In a movie season worshipped for its CGI-boosted, spiritually bankrupt juvenilia, it's heartening to know that filmmakers still create —... More >>

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  Sacha Baron Cohen

  By Karina Longworth

  In his third collaboration with director Larry Charles, Sacha Baron Cohen plays Admiral General Aladeen, the young, dumb dictator of fictional... More >>

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  Taylor Kitsch

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Every once in a while, a movie comes along that's so utterly shameless that it achieves a certain grandeur. Peter Berg's Battleship, which I... More >>

• Morgan Spurlock

  By Nick Pinkerton

  "I think that men are having an identity crisis, but they don't really know it." So says "biological anthropologist" Helen Fisher, speaking in... More >>

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  Dark Shadows Dusts Off the Ol' Culture-Clash Bit.

  By Nick Pinkerton

  A significant portion of Tim Burton's output over the past decade has been concerned with slipping the "Burton treatment" to susceptible texts:... More >>

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  Richard Linklater

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Richard Linklater's Bernie is the rarest of rarities: a truly unexpected film. It might be classified as a black comedy, for it deals with the... More >>

• Samuel L. Jackson

  By Karina Longworth

  At the start of Joss Whedon's long-awaited Marvel superhero supergroup flick, The Avengers, the Tesseract — a powerful, potentially... More >>

• Brit Marling

  By Karina Longworth

  Twentysomething Silver Lake couple Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius) talk their way into an unnamed cult that meets in the... More >>

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  The Five-Year Engagement

  By Melissa Anderson

  There is exactly one unexpected moment in the otherwise drearily predictable The Five-Year Engagement that, though little more than a throwaway... More >>

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  Terence Davies

  By Nick Pinkerton

  The Deep Blue Sea, the first fiction feature in a dozen years from the visionary British director Terence Davies, is a film about love that in no... More >>

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  Whit Stillman

  By Eric Hynes

  Back with his first film in 14 years, Whit Stillman still operates in a world of his own. It's true both in respect to the singularity of his... More >>

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  Bob Marley

  By Melissa Anderson

  I spotted a bottle of something called Marley's Mellow Mood, "a new line of 100 percent natural relaxation beverages," in my neighborhood deli... More >>

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  Joss Whedon

  By Mark Olsen

  At the end of The Cabin in the Woods, the world is destroyed by an apocalyptic hand of fate — an actual hand, mind you — yet that is... More >>

• Guy Maddin

  By Karina Longworth

  The latest phantasmagoria of cinematic quotation from Canadian director Guy Maddin, Keyhole is an extremely loose adaptation of the Odyssey.... More >>

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