When I told someone the other day I was off to a screening of We Bought a Zoo, the response…
Michael Lewis’s book Moneyball was published in 2003, in the immediate wake of The Season That Shook Baseball. The story…
This isn’t the third installment in the so-called “Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy” featuring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Note…
On matters animated and three-dimensional I take my cue from the 7-year-old sitting at my right, who got mega-fidgety about…
Classiest. Comic. Book. Movie. Ever. Not the best. Not the worst. Just the classiest—Helen Mirren (and Morgan Freeman and John…
For all of Scott Pilgrim‘s adherence to the graphic novels upon which it’s based—the pop-art pows and thwacks, the video-game…
If the plot of Middle Men sounds familiar—Luke Wilson gets in bed with James Caan, who just wants to fuck…
As the lights were dimming before a preview screening of Despicable Me, the 6-year-old who lives in my house leaned…
This roller-coaster spinoff of Forgetting Sarah Marshall often feels as if it’ll jump the tracks and smash to the ground…
The simple thesis of the movie is very much made for the 6 to, oh, let’s say 6½-year-old set: People…
For a while, at least, a pitch-black (and therefore pitch-perfect) tale of our times: Four business partners masquerading as a…
This isn’t entirely without its selling points, chief among them T.J. Miller, who’s a cross between Seth Rogen and Jason…
A multiplex three-pack filled with every cop-movie convention since the invention of gunpowder and curse words, Brooklyn’s Finest is three…
Winded and weary from its long journey to a bigger screen, C.D. Payne’s 500-page 1993 novel has been squeezed into…
Don’t be misled by the cheesy, generic poster for Kirk Jones’ retelling of Giuseppe Tornatore’s 1990 Stanno tutti bene, in…
There is something oddly familiar about Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air, in which George Clooney plays a commitment-phobic business…
Seven months after its theatrical release in the UK, and two months after its DVD debut there, Pirate Radio washes…
As evidenced by The Informant!, it’s a hell of a tricky thing to turn real-life pulp into floss sugar. The…
Marketed as a guitar summit with The Edge, Jimmy Page, and Jack White, Davis Guggenheim’s affectionate, intermittently insightful behind-the-music doc…
It was the best of movies. It was the worst of movies. Which is to say: There’s half a great…
Starring Sandra Bullock as the publishing-house boss who blackmails her assistant, played by Ryan Reynolds, into marrying her lest she…
First of all, Up is not a movie about a cranky old coot who, with the help of a roly-poly…
Writer-director Rian Johnson’s movies—first Brick in 2006, now The Brothers Bloom—are clever and soulful confabulations. The filmmaker, whose screenplays read…
