Ryan Reynolds's bod is the asset in men-on-the-run thriller Safe House.
By Karina Longworth,
February 09, 2012
"He's sooo hot," the woman sitting next to me at the screening of Safe House sighed to her friend as the film's opening images of Ryan Reynolds... More>>
There's no room for indulgence at the Ti West Inn.
By Nick Pinkerton,
February 02, 2012
Ti West, the 34-year-old writer-director of The Innkeepers, has spent the past several years steadily toiling his way through the ranks of horror... More>>
"You just have to get crazier" were the words of advice mighty choreographer Pina Bausch once gave to one of her dancers, who fondly recalls the... More>>
Tilda Swinton and her problem child in We Need to Talk About Kevin.
By Karina Longworth,
January 26, 2012
In Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin, Tilda Swinton lives out an urban bohemian's worst nightmare. Forced to give up her independence... More>>
Bald eagles will weep for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
By Nick Pinkerton,
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 AIDS... More>>
Survivors of a nuclear disaster scratch each other's eyes out in The Divide.
By Nick Pinkerton,
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), who'll spend... More>>
Hollywood goes to Bosnia in The Land of Blood and Honey.
By Karina Longworth,
January 19, 2012
It's 1992 at the start of In the Land of Blood and Honey, and Ajla (Zana Marjanovic) and Danijel (Goran Kostic) are about to hook up at a Bosnian... More>>
The parental rage of brownstone Brooklyn in Carnage.
By Karina Longworth,
January 12, 2012
Roman Polanski's adaptation of Yasmina Reza's hit play, Carnage, stars Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Christoph Waltz and Kate Winslet as two sets... More>>
The godly union of Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah, sullied in Joyful Noise.
By Melissa Anderson,
January 12, 2012
A holy hot mess of the sacred and the inane, Joyful Noise, about a small-town Southern gospel choir, lifts from Usher's "Yeah!" to give us this... More>>
Jabber-free, The Artist joyfully resurrects Hollywood's past.
By Melissa Anderson,
December 22, 2011
An undeniably charming homage to Hollywood in the late 1920s, The Artist will probably be the most successful silent movie since the days of the... More>>
Rooney Mara takes control of the Stieg Larsson juggernaut in Dragon Tattoo.
By J. Hoberman,
December 22, 2011
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is hardly a personal project. Still, David Fincher's sveltely malevolent remake of the 2009 Swedish blockbuster... More>>
The birth of psychoanalysis in A Dangerous Method.
By J. Hoberman,
December 22, 2011
A Dangerous Method, the title of David Cronenberg's viscerally cerebral new film, is something of an understatement. As cataclysmic as it is,... More>>
What's lost in translation, and what's gained, as Tintin goes from page to screen.
By Nick Pinkerton,
December 22, 2011
Steven Spielberg's motion-captured, 3-D The Adventures of Tintin rolls together plot elements from three comic-book adventures starring Belgian... More>>
Oh, don't be such a cynic. Matt Damon needs your love in We Bought a Zoo.
By Robert Wilonsky,
December 22, 2011
When I told someone I was off to a screening of We Bought a Zoo the other day, the response was an eye roll. The reaction's understandable: Save... More>>
Everyone's favorite Victorian detective gets a Bond makeover in Game of Shadows.
By Nick Pinkerton,
December 15, 2011
Although supplying boys' adventure thrills on the side, Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories are remarkable for how they make the process... More>>
Steve McQueen's first two films both star Michael Fassbender, feature virtually interchangeable titles and are nearly as grueling to watch as... More>>
Desperately trying to appeal to not just the Gen X'ers who grew up with Kermit, Miss Piggy and Dr. Teeth, but also the tykes who've never even... More>>
Alexander Payne's Hawaiian excursion might be the feel-good movie of the year. Uh oh.
By J. Hoberman,
November 17, 2011
As life-or-death dramedy, The Descendants poses several important questions: Why has it taken Alexander Payne seven years to follow up on his... More>>
