True confession: I’m not a big fan of chase scenes. If there was an expression that was the opposite of “cut to the chase” (“cut to the nuanced character development”?) it would be my motto....
It would almost be impossible for a film with Will Ferrell and Zach Galiafanakis to not be funny—I mean, they’d have to work really hard at it. And yes, I laughed fitfully throughout The...
Based on the trailers, you probably think you already know what Hope Springs is going to be like: A glossy rom-com about an aging married couple who go to couple’s therapy in a quaint town and...
There is no irony in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight world. No “c’mon folks, it’s just a guy in a mask.” Nolan is dead serious about his tortured comic hero. This distinguishes him from Joss...
When I first heard they were rebooting the Spider Man franchise with Andrew Garfield in the lead role, I was puzzled. After all, the most recent Spider Man film was just in 2007. So was...
Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike is both the dealer and the narc. Both the buzz and the buzzkill. Both the orgy and the post-orgy prayer circle.
The audience I saw it with—almost exclusively...
There are two movies competing for the heart and soul of Seeking a Friend For the End of the World and, unfortunately, the crappy one won out.
It’s a shame, because the other movie—the one...
Wes Anderson makes me nostalgic for things I’d forgotten, or possibly never even knew existed.
I never forlornly peered through a pair of binoculars at my window, as the 12-year-old heroine of...
To be honest, there was virtually no chance I was going to love Rock of Ages. My 80s were spent listening to The Cure, The Smiths, and Siouxsie and the Banshees and I happen to think that the...
If there’s one thing that the success of the French film The Intouchables proves—and it was something of a sensation in Europe last year—it’s that people like seeing love stories on screen,...
