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Destruction is scary, but not half as scary as the act of rebuilding, the moment of looking at the random, jagged pieces you've got left and... More >>
Zack Snyder's Man of Steel is a movie event with an actual movie inside, crying to get out. Despite its preposterous... More >>
Sometimes, there’s just too damn much to say about a movie than can fit into any one review. (Even More >>
Anyone trying to run a civilized country should know that throwing musicians in jail for making music is always a bad idea. That didn't stop... More >>
Eager young people can't find jobs; qualified older people can't find jobs. There's nothing funny about that, which is exactly why someone... More >>
Ask people about their favorite movies, and the same titles come up regularly — Casablanca, Pulp Fiction, Annie... More >>
New York is a cruel and beautiful place, just as 27 is a cruel and beautiful age. In Frances Ha, Greta Gerwig plays a woman who's... More >>
One of the most exciting things about attending the Cannes Film Festival is being among the first people to see the films the world will be... More >>
Nearly everyone I know who has seen the official poster for the 66th Cannes Film Festival — a bird’s-eye view of a kiss... More >>
The biggest puzzlement of these early days of the festival comes from Sofia Coppola, one of my favorite working directors. Until now, I have... More >>
François Ozon’s Young & Beautiful, a portrait of a 17-year-old French call girl, is something else again. This is... More >>
I. First, Something About the Badges (Then We’ll Get to the Coens) Someday I’m going to write a song and call it... More >>
Ladies and gentlemen—anyone, really, who cares about his or her mug—step right up. According to a bit of advice proffered in one of... More >>
Expectations here in Cannes were high—or at least semi-high—for Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives, in... More >>
There's a scene in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby in which Leonardo DiCaprio's hyperrich, super-awkward Jay Gatsby takes it upon... More >>
Jean-Luc Godard said, "All you need for a movie is a girl and a gun." But really, all you need is a girl, preferably a charismatic one with a... More >>
In the course of reviewing movies in the early 2000s, just as computer-generated special effects were becoming radically sophisticated and were... More >>
Where has Robert Downey Jr. gone? There's no doubt he's the star of Iron Man 3; he sprints through the picture like a neurotic... More >>
Stephanie Zacharek is the new chief film... More >>
I have rarely enjoyed watching Terrence Malick's movies. But I really wouldn't want to be him. When you're a reclusive perfectionist who... More >>
An actress in her thirties — a woman, that is, still playing characters of babymaking age — may have it even tougher than actresses... More >>
There's a reason, beyond basic Judd Apatow oversaturation, that hardly anyone went to see his mewl of middle-aged despair This Is 40. A... More >>
Guy humor is always with us, kind of like the poor. For as long as cavemen have been etching fart jokes into the walls of caves, women have been... More >>
Steven Spielberg and his jaunty little apologue about the 16th President of the United States aside, it's no longer enough in movies for a... More >>
