POSTED // Nov 23,2011 - Hard as it is to pick one scene that captures everything that is so delightful about the endlessly entertaining The Muppets,

POSTED // Nov 18,2011 - Late in the new animated sequel Happy Feet Two, a penguin chick named Erik (Ava Acres)—previously a timid and quiet little thing—bursts into operatic voice at a moment when hope seems dim.

POSTED // Nov 18,2011 - Full disclosure statement: Long-distance relationships have pretty much defined my romantic life, both with happy and unhappy endings.

POSTED // Nov 11,2011 - Because nothing is more intriguing than people, and in theory celebrated people are even more intriguing, it continues to be a baffling frustration that cinematic biopics

POSTED // Nov 11,2011 - Martha Marcy May Marlene follows a young woman dealing with the aftermath of time spent in a rural cult-like commune.

POSTED // Nov 4,2011 - If you have a nagging suspicion that stories about paranoia are actually trying to sneak in messages about something else, don’t worry that you’re being paranoid. They almost always are.

POSTED // Nov 4,2011 - For a critic, there are few pleasures more satisfying than ripping into a bad movie. But one of those few is discovering that a film that you were expecting to hate

POSTED // Oct 28,2011 - Johnny Depp spent more than 15 years building exactly the kind of cinematic résumé that keeps actors from being movie stars, roles featuring weird hair and silly voices.

POSTED // Oct 28,2011 - If you go to see a drama about the guys in suits who dicked over the world during the 2008 financial meltdown, you either want catharsis, or you want answers.

POSTED // Oct 21,2011 - When we last left Johnny English, Rowan Atkinson’s dubiously qualified British secret agent … wait, what’s that? You say you don’t recall Johnny English, the 2003 feature that