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And Now, Tobias Fünke and George Michael! Arrested Development's David Cross and Michael Cera on Mitch Hurwitz's genius and Orange County's 'esteemed taste'
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May 23, 2013
When Netflix representatives asked us which Arrested Development cast members we wanted to interview for 20 minutes, the choice was unanimous:... More>>
'The Hangover Part III': Heart of Fartness The so-called Wolf Pack punches down
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May 23, 2013
The unlikeliest of all the Hangover trilogy's comic implausibilities might be its four pampered, rich-boy leads unironically calling themselves... More>>
Cannes: Steven Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra Is a Delightful Little Curio
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May 23, 2013
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>>
'Before Midnight''s Aftermath The lovers of 'Before Sunrise' and 'Before Sunset' face the darkness
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May 23, 2013
Ask people about their favorite movies, and the same titles come up regularly—Casablanca, Pulp Fiction, Annie Hall, Citizen Kane. But some... More>>
'Fast & Furious 6': Oh, This Is Why We Have Car Chases The sublime dumb play of Justin Lin's latest installment in the series
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May 23, 2013
There's one key truth that separates the tank-topped gearheads of the Fast and Furious movies from the rest of us. Every problem these lugnuts... More>>
Lens Flares and the End of Film Master cinematographers on the end of a medium
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May 23, 2013
Daniel Mindel, ASC, is part of an ever-shrinking population: cinematographers who have yet to shoot a feature digitally. He acknowledges that he... More>>
In Want of a (Haredi) Wife in 'Fill the Void' A betrothal drama illuminates Hasidic life
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May 23, 2013
Rama Burshtein's Fill the Void opens on green leaves, smiling faces, lush billows of fabric that—when pieced together, the sensuous images... More>>
Hate-Watching 'Hating Breitbart' Fudging the truth with the late Tea Partier
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May 23, 2013
Let's say that you and your friends get accused of being racist. And let's say there's nothing in your heart that fits that accusation. You know... More>>
'We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks': All the News That's Fit to Hack Alex Gibney's documentary draws too few conclusions
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May 23, 2013
There's a thing that sometimes happens to copy editors, the workhorses who do the final grammar cleanup, general fine-tuning and, sometimes,... More>>
Cannes: Refn's Again with Ryan Gosling, but Only God Forgives Isn't in the Same League as Drive
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May 23, 2013
Expectations here in Cannes were high—or at least semi-high—for Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives, in which Kristin Scott... More>>
Fast & Furious & Elegant: Justin Lin and the Vulgar Auteurs
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May 23, 2013
Justin Lin may strike some as out of place in the pantheon of contemporary auteurs. The Taiwanese-born American filmmaker, best known for having... More>>
Kirk Versus Khan Redux In 'Star Trek: Into Darkness' J.J. Abrams' grand, familiar 'Star Trek'
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May 16, 2013
"Who are you?" pleads a doomed man as Benedict Cumberbatch looms into his first close-up in Star Trek: Into Darkness.
The answer is Khan. And... More>>
Here's to Frances Ha, the New New Girl Greta Gerwig plays a woman who's not quite a real person yet
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May 16, 2013
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 feeling the... More>>
There Ain't No Good Guys In 'Black Rock' Katie Aselton upends thriller convention until it doesn't
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May 16, 2013
Seemingly crafted to validate the fears of those conservatives who rage that the white man can't get respect on the big screen these days, Katie... More>>
'Augustine': The Hysterical Woman Alice Winocour upends historical doctor-patient sexism
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May 16, 2013
"You use big words to say simple things," says Augustine, an illiterate kitchen maid, to the esteemed doctor treating her for the distinctly... More>>
Cannes: Not Even the Gifted Emma Watson Can Raise 'The Bling Ring' But I haven’t given up on Sofia Coppola
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May 16, 2013
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>>
Ethan Hawke, Before and After Watching an Actor Grow Up
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May 16, 2013
Before Midnight may be the greatest film ever made about impermanence—a fitting theme for a work that also reestablishes the A-list... More>>
Cannes: 'Young & Beautiful' Is a Portrait of a 17-Year-Old French Call Girl
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May 16, 2013
François Ozon’s Young & Beautiful, a portrait of a 17-year-old French call girl, is something else again. This is another story... More>>
Cannes: 'Heli' Is Family Drama Set Against Mexico’s Drug Wars
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May 16, 2013
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>>
Cannes Diary: What Are the Women in Their Dresses Hoping For?
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May 16, 2013
Nearly everyone I know who has seen the official poster for the 66th Cannes Film Festival -- a bird’s-eye view of a kiss between a young... More>>
The Cokscars? Or: The Awards the Newport Beach Film Festival Didn't Hand Out For your consideration, 16 commendations that really matter
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May 09, 2013
Un Plan Parfait (Fly Me to the Moon), a romantic comedy that was the 2013 Newport Beach Film Festival's (NBFF) French Spotlight picture, was the... More>>
What 'Gatsby' Gets Wrong Ten ways the new movie will trip up the lazy students of tomorrow
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May 09, 2013
The only thing we English teachers hate more than Sparknotes is a high-quality, mostly faithful movie version of a book. Why would a student slog... More>>
'The Great Gatsby': Beautiful, Damned Baz Luhrmann's sometimes great, but not always good, adaption of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel
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May 09, 2013
There's a scene in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby in which Leonardo DiCaprio's hyperrich, super-awkward Jay Gatsby takes it upon himself to... More>>
R.I.P., Ray Harryhausen The master of the handmade fantasy died at age 92
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May 09, 2013
In the course of reviewing movies in the early 2000s, just as computer-generated special effects were becoming radically sophisticated and were... More>>
The Rashomom of 'Stories We Tell' Sarah Polley gets to know all the women her mother is
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May 09, 2013
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>>
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