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2012 Stories by Nick Pinkerton

• Men in Black Goes Back in Time

  published 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... More >>

• Battleship

  published May 17, 2012

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

• Morgan Spurlock's Mansome

  published May 17, 2012

  "I think that men are having an identity crisis, but they don't really know it." So says "biological anthropologist" Helen Fisher, speaking in... More >>

• Tim Burton's Dark Shadows

  published May 10, 2012

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

• Bernie

  published April 26, 2012

  Richard Linklater's Bernie is the rarest of rarities: a truly unexpected film. It might be classified as a black comedy, for it... More >>

• The Problem with Romance

  published April 19, 2012

  The Deep Blue Sea, the first fiction feature in a dozen years from the visionary British director Terence Davies, is a film about... More >>

• I Love the '90s: Titanic 3D

  published April 5, 2012

  A historical romance with a then-unheard-of price tag, James Cameron's 1997 Titanic was the nearest thing to a Gone with the... More >>

• I Love the '90s: American Reunion

  published April 5, 2012

  Another defining coming-of-age love story of the Clinton era, 1999's American Pie, has expanded into a saga far more epic — and... More >>

• One-Take Wonder

  published March 8, 2012

  The foundations of Silent House are laid atop La Casa Muda, a nil-budget 2010 Uruguayan horror film that enjoyed an afterlife... More >>

• Lost in America

  published February 23, 2012

  "There's no one way to live our lives," hopes the displaced, adrift couple at the center of Wanderlust. Shopping between the prefab... More >>

• This Is How We Do It

  published February 16, 2012

  Hostilities in This Means War are declared as two workmates compete for the affection of the same woman. The contested objective is... More >>

• For Better or for Amnesia

  published February 16, 2012

  The Vow, a full-bodied lunge for the heartstrings, has a humdinger of a premise, forcing its characters to face a question that most... More >>

• Horror, Stripped Down to Its Bones

  published February 2, 2012

  Ti West, the 34-year-old writer-director of The Innkeepers, has spent the past several years steadily toiling his way through the... More >>

• Some Nouns, Some Verbs and 9/11

  published January 19, 2012

  Director Stephen Daldry has never met a Big Theme he didn't like: After 2002's The Hours, a lugubrious women's-problem picture touching on... More >>

• Locked In

  published January 19, 2012

  A mushroom cloud blooms over Manhattan at the opening of The Divide. We see it reflected in the tearful eyes of Eva (Lauren German),... More >>

• Girl Fight

  published January 19, 2012

  There's a point in Haywire when the film's protagonist, ex-Marine Mallory Kane (Gina Carano), gone rogue from her job as hired... More >>