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  Men in Black 3

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Can any one of the millions of Americans who saw Men in Black 2 in 2002 describe its plot today? A single scene? I saw both MIB movies upon their... More >>

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  The Color Wheel

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Alex Ross Perry's The Color Wheel deals in binding family ties and the sterility of the comfortable classes. The New Yorker's second feature,... More >>

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  Tonight You're Mine

  By Karina Longworth

  This entry in the "hot young opposites attract over the course of one long night" genre takes place at Scotland's muddy summer counterpart to... More >>

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  Battleship

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Every once in a while, a movie comes along that's so utterly shameless it achieves a certain grandeur. Peter Berg's Battleship, which I swear to... More >>

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  First Position

  By Nick Schager

  The non-fiction formula pioneered by Spellbound leads to frustrating superficiality in First Position, a glossy documentary about a multicultural... More >>

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  The Dictator

  By Karina Longworth

  In The Dictator, his third collaboration with director Larry Charles, Sacha Baron Cohen plays Admiral General Aladeen, the young, dumb dictator... More >>

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  Camp still rules Tim Burton's Dark Shadows

  By Nick Pinkerton

  A good portion of Tim Burton's output over the past decade has been concerned with slipping the "Burton treatment" to susceptible texts: Roald... More >>

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  Nanni Moretti takes on the Vatican in We Have a Pope

  By Melissa Anderson

  Suitable entertainment for a Knights of Columbus fundraiser, Nanni Moretti's We Have a Pope finds the Most Holy Father, wracked with self-doubt... More >>

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  The episodic Sound of My Voice feels unfinished

  By Karina Longworth

  Twenty-something Silver Lake couple Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius) talk their way into an unnamed cult that meets to follow... More >>

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  Superhero supergroup flick The Avengers lacks character development

  By Karina Longworth

  At the start of Joss Whedon's long-awaited Marvel superhero supergroup flick, The Avengers, the Tesseract — a powerful, potentially... More >>

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  The provocative Elles gets too worked up for its own good

  By Benjamin Mercer

  As she prepares for a dinner party and fields rude dismissals from her two spoiled sons, journalist Anne (Juliette Binoche) thinks back on her... More >>

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  Do we really need the angsty Four Lovers?

  By Benjamin Mercer

  Using a fluid naturalism to establish its afterglow vibe, Four Lovers follows two married couples as they swap partners and invigorate their own... More >>

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  Jason Segel and Emily Blunt drag us through their Five-Year Engagement

  By Melissa Anderson

  There is exactly one unexpected moment in the otherwise drearily predictable The Five-Year Engagement that, though little more than a throwaway... More >>

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  Whit Stillman's latest is buoyant and frivolous...with dancing, of course

  By Eric Hynes

  Back with his first film in fourteen years, Whit Stillman still operates in a world of his own. That's true with respect to both the singularity... More >>

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  Even Zac Efron's pecs can't heat up The Lucky One

  By Chuck Wilson

  It's Nicholas Sparks's world; we just live in it. Sparks, in case you haven't scanned the paperback racks lately, is the former pharmaceutical... More >>

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