POSTED // Jun 14,2013 - There’s no point attempting to separate one’s response to director Richard Linklater’s third visit with Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) from those that came before—and indeed, you’ll miss the point of what’s so

POSTED // Jun 13,2013 - For years, Warner Bros. has been trying to figure out how to make Superman—that unapologetically square, virtually indestructible throwback hero—relevant for the 21st century. With Man of Steel, it seems they realized how to do it: Turn him into Spider-Man.

POSTED // Jun 7,2013 - In Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley has either crafted one of the most deeply narcissistic documentaries ever, or one of the most deeply poignant. The fact that I can’t quite decide which of those is true makes it frustratingly

POSTED // Jun 7,2013 - Maybe it’s implausible. Ten years from now, America is a veritable paradise—unemployment is at 1 percent, crime is virtually nonexistent—thanks to the Purge, an annual 12-hour free-for-all during which all crime,

POSTED // May 31,2013 - The easy knock on Noah Baumbach would be to say that he’s spent 17 years as a filmmaker circling around to the same place. In his charming 1995 debut Kicking and Screaming,

POSTED // May 24,2013 - We couldn’t have seen this franchise coming—not this way, not the thing it has become. A dozen years ago, The Fast & the Furious was just a throwaway little actionsploitation pic about L.A. street racing, full of testosterone

POSTED // May 23,2013 - When The Hangover Part II was released two years ago and turned out to be virtually a note-for-note duplication of the original, many of us found ourselves thinking, “Couldn’t they do something new?”

POSTED // May 15,2013 - There’s a thing that makes me very sad about Star Trek Into Darkness. It’s not the perfect geek storm of an opening gambit that evokes not only the old-school boldly going adventures of the crew of the starship Enterprise,

POSTED // May 10,2013 - What if Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby didn’t have to carry the burden of “The Great Gatsby”? That’s not just some Zen koan-like riddle intended to inspire deep meditation; it’s a question about the way we look at a movie

POSTED // May 3,2013 - The least interesting thing about the otherwise hugely entertaining Iron Man movies is, ironically, Iron Man. The suit of powered flying armor, that is. Hiding Robert Downey Jr. behind a metal mask an