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Men in Black Goes Back in Time, but You Still Get to Pay the 2012 Price Men in Black 3
By Nick Pinkerton, May 24, 2012
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>>
Summer Movies 2012: The Season Brings a Crop of Films Suitable for All Ages -- Including Adults Moonrise Kingdom
By Aaron Hillis, May 24, 2012
In a movie season worshipped for its CGI-boosted, spiritually bankrupt juvenilia, it's heartening to know that filmmakers still create —... More>>
More Culture-Clash Yuks than Comedy Revolution in The Dictator Sacha Baron Cohen
By Karina Longworth, May 17, 2012
In his third collaboration with director Larry Charles, Sacha Baron Cohen plays Admiral General Aladeen, the young, dumb dictator of fictional... More>>
Battleship: Because Every Generation Needs an Armageddon Taylor Kitsch
By Nick Pinkerton, May 17, 2012
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, May 17, 2012
"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>>
Dark Shadows Dusts Off the Ol' Culture-Clash Bit. Dark Shadows Dusts Off the Ol' Culture-Clash Bit.
By Nick Pinkerton, May 10, 2012
A significant portion of Tim Burton's output over the past decade has been concerned with slipping the "Burton treatment" to susceptible texts:... More>>
Deep in the Heart of Texas with Richard Linklater's Bernie. Richard Linklater
By Nick Pinkerton, May 03, 2012
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, May 03, 2012
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, May 03, 2012
Twentysomething Silver Lake couple Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius) talk their way into an unnamed cult that meets in the... More>>
The Five-Year Engagement's Humor Won't Crack You Up The Five-Year Engagement
By Melissa Anderson, April 26, 2012
There is exactly one unexpected moment in the otherwise drearily predictable The Five-Year Engagement that, though little more than a throwaway... More>>
Lovers Try To Stay Above Water in The Deep Blue Sea Terence Davies
By Nick Pinkerton, April 19, 2012
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>>
Whit Stillman Returns With the Toe-Tapping Fantasy Damsels in Distress Whit Stillman
By Eric Hynes, April 19, 2012
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>>
Marley Stirs It Up Bob Marley
By Melissa Anderson, April 19, 2012
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>>
Built to Impress, Cabin in the Woods Doesn't Joss Whedon
By Mark Olsen, April 12, 2012
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, April 12, 2012
The latest phantasmagoria of cinematic quotation from Canadian director Guy Maddin, Keyhole is an extremely loose adaptation of the Odyssey.... More>>
I Love the '90s: Titanic and American Reunion Bring a Taste of Clinton-Era Nostalgia James Cameron
By Nick Pinkerton, April 05, 2012
A historical romance with a then-unheard-of price tag, James Cameron's 1997 Titanic was the nearest thing to a Gone With the Wind-style cinematic... More>>
A Lost Boy and a Sliver of Hope in The Kid With a Bike. Jean-Pierr Dardenne
By Karina Longworth, April 05, 2012
The Kid With a Bike, the new film from Belgian art-house legends Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, begins with Cyril, a scrappy 11-year-old living in... More>>
Footnote: Father and Son Talmudic Scholars Grapple With Each Other and the Truth. Lior Ashkenazi
By Karina Longworth, March 29, 2012
In the first scene of Israel's Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee, Footnote, Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi) — a fortysomething Talmudic... More>>
The Raid: Cops Vs. Thugs in High-Powered High-Rise Fight Gareth Evans
By Ernest Hardy, March 29, 2012
Lean, fast-moving and filled with game-changing fight sequences that have a brutally beautiful (or beautifully brutal) quality, Gareth Evans'... More>>
The Hunger Games Rages Against Our Stupid Culture and Becomes Part of the Problem Jennifer Lawrence
By Melissa Anderson, March 22, 2012
"If no one watches, then they don't have a game," a teenager says in this faithful if cautious adaptation of the first volume of Suzanne Collins'... More>>
Bro, How Times Have Changed: 21 Jump Street Now a Buddy Comedy Jonah Hill
By Melissa Anderson, March 15, 2012
The television show 21 Jump Street, about cops who go undercover as high schoolers, debuted on Fox in 1987 and ran until 1991, launching the... More>>
Jay Duplass
By Brian Miller, March 15, 2012
It's obvious that Jason Segel has a face for comedy. He has a lumpy, sad-sack mug with a dozen inflections to register disappointment, confusion... More>>
The Music in Chico & Rita Has All the Soul Its Lovers Don't Fernando Trueba
By Noah Sanders, March 15, 2012
The Oscar-nominated animated musical Chico & Rita opens with a jaw-dropping swoop over modern-day Cuba, a well-grimed and bustling island of... More>>
Life is an Erotic Cabaret in Frederick Wiseman's Crazy Horse Frederick Wiseman
By Melissa Anderson, March 08, 2012
Recording "Les Filles du Crazy," an anthem that they'll later lip-synch onstage, half a dozen women — performers at the Crazy Horse, Paris'... More>>
Friends With Kids Gives Unconventional Parenting the Conventional Rom-Com Treatment.
By Melissa Anderson, March 08, 2012
In the opening scene of Friends With Kids, a conspicuously placed copy of Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion on the bedside table of Jason (Adam... More>>
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Box Office

  1. Marvel's The Avengers, 55.6 mil, 457.7 mil
  2. Battleship, 25.5 mil, 25.5 mil
  3. The Dictator, 17.4 mil, 24.5 mil
  4. Dark Shadows, 12.6 mil, 50.7 mil
  5. What to Expect When You're Expecting, 10.5 mil, 10.5 mil
  6. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, 3.2 mil, 8.2 mil
  7. The Hunger Games, 3.0 mil, 391.6 mil
  8. Think Like a Man, 2.7 mil, 85.8 mil
  9. The Lucky One, 1.8 mil, 56.9 mil
  10. The Pirates! Band of Misfits, 1.6 mil, 25.5 mil
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