POSTED // Jun 24,2011 - Dear friends: I know it’s been lonely. We’ve seen the conventional wisdom grow that Pixar has had a nearly perfect 15-year run of features ...

POSTED // Jun 17,2011 - Writing about a Terrence Malick film—like the majestic, instantlyargument-provoking The Tree of Life—somehow can’t help turning into writing about the way people generally react to a

POSTED // Jun 10,2011 - Give J.J. Abrams credit for having stones the size of bowling balls, because he practically gift-wraps the pike on which his science-fiction thriller Super 8 could be skewered. Early in the film, aspi

POSTED // Jun 10,2011 - Midnight in Paris invites film critics to participate in an annual event almost as steeped in tradition as bitching about the Oscars: Determining whether the latest Woody Allen movie ...

POSTED // Jun 3,2011 - Culturally, Americans are not a patient people. We’re infuriated when traffic slows us down, or when it takes longer than a few seconds for approximately all the knowledge in human history to be

POSTED // Jun 3,2011 - Unlike many Foreign Language Oscar nominees, 2011 nominee Incendies doesn’t fit into the tidy Academy-friendly box. Sure, it’s about the horrors of war, but not in the usual way. In its un

POSTED // May 27,2011 - Whatever your feelings about the original 2009 The Hangover may be, let’s all agree on this: As a basic comedic premise, it’s pure genius

POSTED // May 27,2011 - Of all the DreamWorks Animation features, there’s none I’ve enjoyed more than the original 2008 Kung Fu Panda.

POSTED // May 24,2011 - The new novel from author (Union Dues) and filmmaker (Matewan, Eight Men Out, Lone Star) John Sayles, A Moment in the Sun, is an epic spanning events in America ...

POSTED // May 20,2011 - In the abstract, I’m kind of giddy that the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has reached its fourth installment, On Stranger Tides ...