REVIEW: Searching For Sugar Man, The Extraordinary True Tale of a Mythic Cult Music Hero…
Searching For Sugar Man, which tells the improbable story of how a singer-songwriter named Sixto Rodriguez rose, fell, and found…
REVIEW: Despite Hijinks and Dick Jokes Galore, The Watch Fails To Make Lasting Impression
Walking out of The Watch, Saturday Night Live writer Akiva Schaffer's garrulous but indistinctive sophomore directing effort, a…
REVIEW: Ultraviolent, Shock-Seeking Killer Joe Is A Pulp Fiction Paradox
Slick and mean and full of piss and chicken grease, Killer Joe has worse manners than its deadly, courtly antihero. But in its…
REVIEW: Ambitious, Thrilling 'Dark Knight Rises' Undermined By Hollow Vision
The Batman brand is in the toilet at the outset of The Dark Knight Rises, the third and most self-consciously ornate pillar of…
REVIEW: Provocative Alps Shows Different Side of Greek Limbo
There's a case to be made for the idea that Greece has more ghosts than the average country. This argument would involve space…
REVIEW: Mira Sorvino Shines as a Sparkling Hot Mess in Union Square
At first glance, Mira Sorvino's character in Union Square, a claustrophobic but well-acted sibling chamber piece, bears a…
REVIEW: Martin Donovan Reinvigorates Dramatic Clichés with Collaborator
We don't see the writer in Robert Longfellow (Martin Donovan) for some significant time in Collaborator, Donovan's pensive…
REVIEW: Katy Perry Reveals Her True Self — Whoever That Is — in Katy Perry: Part of Me 3D…
"Katy tells us that it's okay to stand out," one of pneumatic pop star Katy Perry's disciples intones at the beginning of Katy…
REVIEW: The Duplass Brothers' The Do-Deca-Pentathlon Feels Like a Mumblecore Obstacle…
It's hard to say how much can be blamed on the timing of the release of The Do-Deca-Pentathlon and how much on the movie's…
REVIEW: A Great Canadian Artist Reveals Some Secrets -- Including Why He Once Ate Tar -- in Neil You…
Even Neil Young couldn't resist. "This is a town in north Ontario," he says at the beginning of Neil Young Journeys, Jonathan…
REVIEW: Beasts of the Southern Wild Lives Up to Its Moral Universe
There was talk, back a week or so ago, about the perfect Father's Day movie. Some made jokes about That's My Boy, others took the…
REVIEW: Lynn Shelton Mines Gold from Small Moments in Your Sister's Sister
In the opening scene of Lynn Shelton's fourth feature we join a conversation in progress. Or a few conversations: Voices overlap…
REVIEW: Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present Casts Light on the Shadowy Secrets of an Enigmatic…
"After the show I have to really put some more attention to sex in my life," Marina Abramovic vows near the beginning of Marina…
REVIEW: Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted Coasts on Goofy Charm
Both of the trailers that preceded the screening I attended of Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted featured burps as punchlines…
REVIEW: Bloodless Bel Ami Wastes Robert Pattinson's Perfectly Intriguing Face
Though he plays one of the great roués of literature – the social climbing, bloomer-dropping hero at the center of Guy de…
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