I’m actually jealous of sensitive 16 year olds who get to see The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Of course, growing up, I had John Hughes movies, which were amazing and also elevated my fellow...
On first blush, casting Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a younger version of Bruce Willis seems like it belongs in the annals of bad movie choices. Especially when you consider that Looper is a time-...
If you have any chance of enjoying Trouble With the Curve at all, you should first understand that it’s not a real movie.
I mean, yeah, okay, it’s a real movie: It’s playing in actual movie...
The surprise arthouse hit Sleepwalk With Me couldn’t have better indie bona fides. After all, it was produced by no less than This American Life’s Ira Glass, the unofficial Dean of Indie...
I can’t remember the last time I saw a film where a six-year-old little girl flexed her muscles at the camera and let out a defiant scream—probably because there never has been one. Between...
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...
