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  Cool Films to Watch When It's Hot Outside

  By AARON HILLIS

  In a movie season worshipped for its CGI-boosted, spiritually bankrupt juvenilia, it's heartening to know that filmmakers still create—and,... More >>

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  'Moonrise Kingdom' Is Wes Anderson's Most Fully Realized Film

  By KARINA LONGWORTH

  It's 1965, the rainy end of summer on the rocky coast of a fictional New England isle. Twelve-year-old Sam (Jared Gilman), a scrawny,... More >>

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  'Men In Black 3' Travels Back in Time

  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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  Sacha Baron Cohen Wants to Know: Wadiya Laughing At?

  By KARINA LONGWORTH

  In his third collaboration with director Larry Charles, Sacha Baron Cohen plays Admiral General Aladeen, the young, dumb dictator of a fictional... More >>

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  Insert [You Sunk My 'Battleship'] Joke Here

  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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  Examining the Parent Trap in 'What to Expect When You're Expecting'

  By ERIC HYNES

  Even though it doesn't have a story, characters or setting, Heidi Murkoff's mega-best-selling, 28-year-old pregnancy manual, What to Expect When... More >>

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  Johnny Depp As Family Man In 'Dark Shadows'

  By NICK PINKERTON

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

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  Killing for All the Right Reasons in 'God Bless America'

  By NICK PINKERTON

  Frank (Joel Murray) is an outcast. We first meet this divorced, fiftyish, glumly alcoholic white-collar worker—the protagonist of Bobcat... More >>

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  'I Wish' for a Miracle Train

  By ALISON WILLMORE

  Japan's Hirokazu Koreeda has always been an astute, patient observer of all human behavior, but between 2004's Nobody Knows—about four kids... More >>

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  Lit Majors In Love in 'Bonsái'

  By BENJAMIN MERCER

  The bookish young lovers at the heart of the Chilean film Bonsái have cultivated an almost militant seriousness when it comes to... More >>

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  'The Avengers' Is Superhero Soup

  By KARINA LONGWORTH

  At the start of Joss Whedon's long-awaited Marvel superhero supergroup flick, The Avengers, the Tesseract—a powerful, potentially dangerous... More >>

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  'The Raven' Is Not the Poe Drama You Deserve

  By NICK PINKERTON

  At the height of his literary fame, Edgar Allan Poe, who popularized cryptography in his story "The Gold Bug," was so renowned as a code-breaker... More >>

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  Brent Deal Is a Stand-Up Guy

  By MATT COKER

  San Clemente's Brent Deal has made his living the past 15 years directing children's toy commercials, but he started out behind the camera on... More >>

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  'Bernie' Features Murder In a Small Town

  By NICK PINKERTON

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

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  Back From the Future in 'Sound of My Voice'

  By KARINA LONGWORTH

  Twentysomething Silver Lake couple Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius) talk their way into an unnamed cult that meets in the... More >>

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