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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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