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Men in Black 3 goes forward into the past Men in Black 3
By Nick Pinkerton, May 24, 2012
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>>
Family and class issues darken The Color Wheel The Color Wheel
By Nick Pinkerton, May 24, 2012
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>>
In Tonight You're Mine, the party is real but the premise isn't Tonight You're Mine
By Karina Longworth, May 24, 2012
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>>
Battleship's not bad for a science fiction action naval war film Battleship
By Nick Pinkerton, May 17, 2012
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>>
First Position favors formula over insight First Position
By Nick Schager, May 17, 2012
The non-fiction formula pioneered by Spellbound leads to frustrating superficiality in First Position, a glossy documentary about a multicultural... More>>
Sacha Baron Cohen's Dictator fails to keep it real The Dictator
By Karina Longworth, May 17, 2012
In The Dictator, his third collaboration with director Larry Charles, Sacha Baron Cohen plays Admiral General Aladeen, the young, dumb dictator... More>>
Camp still rules Tim Burton's Dark Shadows Camp still rules Tim Burton's Dark Shadows
By Nick Pinkerton, May 10, 2012
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>>
Nanni Moretti takes on the Vatican in We Have a Pope Nanni Moretti takes on the Vatican in We Have a Pope
By Melissa Anderson, May 10, 2012
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>>
The episodic Sound of My Voice feels unfinished The episodic Sound of My Voice feels unfinished
By Karina Longworth, May 10, 2012
Twenty-something Silver Lake couple Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius) talk their way into an unnamed cult that meets to follow... More>>
Superhero supergroup flick The Avengers lacks character development Superhero supergroup flick The Avengers lacks character development
By Karina Longworth, May 03, 2012
At the start of Joss Whedon's long-awaited Marvel superhero supergroup flick, The Avengers, the Tesseract — a powerful, potentially... More>>
The provocative Elles gets too worked up for its own good The provocative Elles gets too worked up for its own good
By Benjamin Mercer, May 03, 2012
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>>
Do we really need the angsty Four Lovers? Do we really need the angsty Four Lovers?
By Benjamin Mercer, April 26, 2012
Using a fluid naturalism to establish its afterglow vibe, Four Lovers follows two married couples as they swap partners and invigorate their own... More>>
Jason Segel and Emily Blunt drag us through their Five-Year Engagement Jason Segel and Emily Blunt drag us through their Five-Year Engagement
By Melissa Anderson, April 26, 2012
There is exactly one unexpected moment in the otherwise drearily predictable The Five-Year Engagement that, though little more than a throwaway... More>>
Whit Stillman's latest is buoyant and frivolous...with dancing, of course Whit Stillman's latest is buoyant and frivolous...with dancing, of course
By Eric Hynes, April 26, 2012
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>>
Even Zac Efron's pecs can't heat up The Lucky One Even Zac Efron's pecs can't heat up The Lucky One
By Chuck Wilson, April 19, 2012
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>>
From a nature-doc angle, Chimpanzee is impressive stuff From a nature-doc angle, Chimpanzee is impressive stuff
By Benjamin Mercer, April 19, 2012
Disneynature's latest Earth Day release hunkers down in an Ivory Coast rainforest, taming its beasts-in-the-wild raw material into a... More>>
Marley is a heartfelt tribute to a mesmerizing performer Marley is a heartfelt tribute to a mesmerizing performer
By Melissa Anderson, April 19, 2012
I spotted a bottle of something called Marley's Mellow Mood, "a new line of 100 percent natural relaxation beverages," in my neighborhood deli... More>>
Hockey enforcer flick Goon is rowdy but humane Hockey enforcer flick Goon is rowdy but humane
By Nick Pinkerton, April 12, 2012
Doug Glatt (Seann William Scott) is a polite Jewish boy from fictional Orangetown, Massachusetts, whose one God-given talent is having a skull... More>>
Weinstein doc Bully stacks up wrenching cases of childhood torment Bully
By Benjamin Mercer, April 12, 2012
Arriving in theaters on a wave of free publicity — its distributor, the Weinstein Company, butted heads with the MPAA over an initial R... More>>
The Cabin in the Woods is a horror comedy with a sense of self-confidence The Cabin in the Woods
By Mark Olsen, April 12, 2012
At the end of The Cabin in the Woods, the world is destroyed by an apocalyptic hand of fate — an actual hand, mind you — yet that is... More>>
Grandma Goth, a doc about Flossy McGrew's Suelynn Gustafson, opens April 9 Grandma Goth
By Jef Otte, April 05, 2012
Suelynn Gustafson was doing goth before it was cool. In fact, Suelynn Gustafson was doing goth about five decades before anyone even thought to... More>>
In How to Start a Revolution, Gene Sharp focuses on toppling tyrants through non-violence How to Start a Revolution
By Mark Holcomb, April 05, 2012
Soft-spoken Harvard poli-sci professor Gene Sharp is an unlikely mentor for the architects of the Arab Spring. But as first-time documentarian... More>>
In All In, sound bites and stats obscure an interesting story In All In, sound bites and stats obscure an interesting story
By Michelle Orange, March 29, 2012
There's a lot of mythologizing in All In, an adoring, exhaustive survey of the last decade's poker boom and its impact on the culture. Director... More>>
Footnote examines a father-son relationship in the world of Israeli academia Footnote examines a father-son relationship in the world of Israeli academia
By Karina Longworth, March 29, 2012
In the first scene of Israel's Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee, Footnote, Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi) — a forty-something Talmudic... More>>
The Hunger Games movie doesn't invest in the deeper terror of the book The Hunger Games
By Melissa Anderson, March 22, 2012
If no one watches, then they don't have a game," a teenager says in this faithful if cautious adaptation of the first volume of Suzanne Collins's... More>>
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  1. Marvel's The Avengers, 55.6 mil, 457.7 mil
  2. Battleship, 25.5 mil, 25.5 mil
  3. The Dictator, 17.4 mil, 24.5 mil
  4. Dark Shadows, 12.6 mil, 50.7 mil
  5. What to Expect When You're Expecting, 10.5 mil, 10.5 mil
  6. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, 3.2 mil, 8.2 mil
  7. The Hunger Games, 3.0 mil, 391.6 mil
  8. Think Like a Man, 2.7 mil, 85.8 mil
  9. The Lucky One, 1.8 mil, 56.9 mil
  10. The Pirates! Band of Misfits, 1.6 mil, 25.5 mil
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