Someone should have put a contract on the screenwriter.
By Nick Pinkerton,
September 22, 2011
Wholly unrelated to the 1975 Sam Peckinpah film of the same name, Killer Elite is distinguished by one no-mercy, eye-gouging, testicle-punching... More>>
Once upon a time, Peter Gatien ruled clubland in New York. With spots such as Limelight and Tunnel, the impresario who wore an eye patch figured... More>>
Ryan Gosling takes the wheel in a retro heist-gone-bad bloodbath.
By J. Hoberman,
September 15, 2011
As stripped-down and propulsive as its robotic title, Drive is the most "American" movie yet by Danish genre director Nicolas Winding Refn. The... More>>
Sarah Jessica Parker travels to a working mom's fantasy island.
By Melissa Anderson,
September 15, 2011
What I don't know: why these movies keep getting made. I Don't Know How She Does It is based on Allison Pearson's 2002 diaristic comic bestseller... More>>
Vera Farmiga tentatively tries to build a better role.
By Melissa Anderson,
September 08, 2011
At one point in Higher Ground, Vera Farmiga's decade-spanning directorial debut, the actress, playing Corinne, a woman still soaked with lake... More>>
A cinematic reboot for the patron saint of 98-pound weaklings, Conan the Barbarian is both truer to the vision of its character's creator, Robert... More>>
Civil rights struggle as viewed through Hollywood's soft focus.
By Karina Longworth,
August 11, 2011
More than just the Hollywood It Girl of the moment, Emma Stone is a real actress, and in The Help, she gets an ostentatious, Oscar-baiting Big... More>>
Despite promise in its pizza boy premise, 30 Minutes or Less plays it too safe
By Seth Colter Walls,
August 11, 2011
Money-back guarantees feel like such a remnant of the old economy. Does the depressed consumer class even expect companies to make good on their... More>>
The latest descendant of the half-century old de-evolution concept that began with Pierre Boulle's novel, Rise of the Planet of the Apes is an... More>>
A uniquely Freudian entry in the body-switching comedy canon, The Change-Up stars Jason Bateman as standard-issue anal-retentive lawyer/family... More>>
Earth angel Brit Marling's world collides with reality.
By Karina Longworth,
August 04, 2011
There may be nothing as Old Hollywood as the narrative about a pretty girl summoning up a dose of pluck to triumph over adversity. And yet Brit... More>>
In the first scene of Crazy, Stupid, Love, Emily (Julianne Moore) tells Cal (Steve Carell), her high school sweetheart and husband of 20-plus... More>>
Created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for Marvel Comics in 1941, Captain America was among the first American comic books intended as an explicit... More>>
Project Nim, James Marsh's documentary biopic of the '70s chimp picked to endure an "experiment" in simian sign language and general neglect,... More>>
Peering inside the secret rituals of female friendship.
By Karina Longworth,
July 21, 2011
In Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Nina (Li Bingbing) is a Shanghai career girl who drops plans to move to New York when she learns her estranged... More>>
The king of franchises arrives majestically at his final destination.
By Nick Schager,
July 14, 2011
After 10 years and seven movies, we've finally arrived: Bespectacled Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) squares off against amphibian-faced Lord... More>>
For a movie called Larry Crowne, it sure is tough to get a solid read on the character of Larry Crowne. Directed, co-written by and starring Tom... More>>
