The formulas work in movie version of Michael Lewis' book
By ROBERT WILONSKY,
September 22, 2011
At the time of this writing, the Oakland Athletics sit at a distant third in the American League West, 18 games behind the Texas Rangers managed... More>>
Ryan Gosling at the wheel in the glossy, retro heist-gone-bad bloodbath
By J. HOBERMAN,
September 15, 2011
As stripped-down and propulsive as its robotic title, Drive is the most "American" movie yet by Danish genre director Nicolas Winding Refn. The... More>>
A simple, powerful act of bearing witness, We Were Here is a sober reminder of the not-too-distant past, when gays were focused not on honeymoon... More>>
A group of thirtysomethings trapped in the amber of its high school years attempts to bone its way into adulthood in A Good Old Fashioned Orgy,... More>>
Looking for the truth and protecting the mystery in 'Toynbee Tiles'
By ERIC HYNES,
September 01, 2011
"This thing that's been here all along doesn't make sense." Alien to the street yet embedded within it, easy to read but impossible to decipher,... More>>
At one point in Higher Ground, Vera Farmiga's decade-spanning directorial debut, the actress, playing Corinne, a woman still soaked with lake... More>>
The 1990s coinage ostalgie, which combines the German words for "east" and "nostalgia," describes a particular sort of longing. Ostalgie is not... More>>
This reboot evokes both the Howard stories and the Frazetta covers much more than the earlier version that starred what's-his-name
By MARK HOLCOMB,
August 18, 2011
A cinematic reboot for the patron saint of 98-pound weaklings, Conan the Barbarian is both truer to the vision of its character's creator, Robert... More>>
John Sayles brings the Philippine-American War into the 21st Century
By J. HOBERMAN,
August 18, 2011
John Sayles's Amigo aspires more to educate than entertain, but it's no less engrossing for that. Torn from the pages of history, if not those of... More>>
More than just the Hollywood It Girl of the moment, Emma Stone is a real actress, and in The Help, she gets an ostentatious, Oscar-baiting Big... More>>
Despite promise in its pizza-boy premise, the film plays it too safe
By SETH COLTER WALL,
August 11, 2011
Money-back guarantees feel like such a remnant of the old economy. Does the depressed consumer class even expect companies to make good on their... More>>
One of the biggest names in Formula 1 racing, Ayrton Senna was 34 years old when a well-placed blow from a suspension shaft ended his life on... More>>
Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds urinate, swap bodies, discover their true selves
By KARINA LONGWORTH,
August 04, 2011
A uniquely Freudian entry in the body-switching comedy canon, The Change-Up stars Jason Bateman as standard issue anal-retentive lawyer/family... More>>
Directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa fall short of their own high bar with the sweet but less-than-groundbreaking film
By KARINA LONGWORTH,
July 28, 2011
In the first scene of Crazy, Stupid, Love, Emily (Julianne Moore) tells Cal (Steve Carell), her high-school sweetheart and husband of 20-plus... More>>
