REVIEW: Kristen Stewart Makes a Feisty But Boring Princess in Snow White and the Huntsman
Why can't heroines just be heroines anymore, instead of micromanaged personalities who may as well have the words "Role Model"…
REVIEW: A Cat in Paris Captures the Mystery of the Feline Heart with Gorgeous Animation
If you could distill essence de chat into a few well-chosen pen strokes, you'd end up with something like Jean-Loup Felicioli and…
REVIEW: Josh Brolin Makes Men in Black 3 Matter — Almost
It would be very easy to show up here and report that Men in Black 3 has no reason to exist, that it's just another threequel…
REVIEW: Moonrise Kingdom — Attractive and Meticulous, Yet Lacking the Indefinable Magic of…
Whenever I throw away one of those large round plastic lids from an orange-juice jug, in my head I hear my mother saying, as she…
REVIEW: At Last, America Can Live! Love! Laugh! with French Megahit The Intouchables
The Intouchables hits so many audience-pleasing buttons, meticulously and dutifully, that it ought to be called The…
REVIEW: Kaboom! Battleship Explodes With Dumb, Dizzy Aplomb
Some days you just need to see, as SCTV's Farm Film Report guys Big Jim McBob and Billy Sol Hurok used to put it, stuff blowed up…
REVIEW: Hysteria, a Sort-Of History of the Vibrator, Hums Along Cheerfully Enough
Anyone who's ever seen or used a rabbit vibrator can attest to the device's utter adorableness as a totem. Whoever designed this…
REVIEW: Sacha Baron Cohen Says the Things Most of Us Are Afraid to Say in The Dictator
Sacha Baron Cohen and Larry Charles' The Dictator is indefensible and hilarious, an unruly thing that invites you to laugh at…
REVIEW: Overly Retrolicious Dark Shadows Could Use a Lot More Gothic Elegance
There are enough terrific, elegant old-style Tim Burton touches in Dark Shadows that, now and then, you might be fooled into…
REVIEW: What If Women Ran the Middle East? Sanctimonious If Entertaining Where Do We Go Now? Has…
It's dangerous business to begin a movie with a voice-over monologue introducing "a long tale of women dressed in black." Run…
REVIEW: Chloe Moretz and Blake Lively Almost Steal Away with Hick
At age 15, Chloë Grace Moretz is now right in the center of the child/adult Venn diagram. Pretty soon we'll have to accept that…
REVIEW: First Position May Be Mostly About Ballet, But It's Also About Being Young
Documentaries don't have to be technically great to be irresistible, and Bess Kargman's First Position, which follows six young…
REVIEW: A Little Bit of Heaven, a Whole Lotta Torture
The old-fashioned cancer weeper — a genre that includes pictures like Love Story, Brian's Song, and the gold standard of…
REVIEW: The Avengers Takes a Bunch of Beloved Superheroes and Builds Big Set Pieces Around Them. Is…
The Avengers is less a movie than a novelization of itself, an oversized, self-aware picture designed mostly for effect: That of…
REVIEW: Sound of My Voice Asks You to Drink the Brit Marling Kool-Aid. Will You?
It's hard to say whether Sound of My Voice is a wholly bogus and pretentious indie enterprise or a weirdly compelling bit of…
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