Belle of the Ball
If you’re like many people, 12 Years a Slave was the first film you saw by a black British director. Maybe you wondered whether...
The Boys Next Door
I come to sing the praises of Nicholas Stoller. The director of the uproariously funny Neighbors isn’t famous like the movie’s stars, and he...
New Friends of Dorothy
The first film version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz appeared all the way back in 1910. Ever since then, movies have been trying...
Turning Point
When I reviewed the reboot of Spider-Man two years ago, I said that while I couldn’t find anything terribly wrong with it, I couldn’t...
Unknown Artist
This story began in winter 2007, when real estate agent John Maloof, a habitué of flea markets and storage auctions, bought a box of...
Study in Scarlett
Scarlett Johansson is naked in Under the Skin. Remarkably, she’s never done that before in a movie. Yet there’s more to it than that,...
Smart Elek
As the Nazi reign of terror swept across Europe, many people in various walks of life found ways of standing against it and making...
Logging Off
Great news if you were looking for an extended, unfunny parody of Christopher Nolan’s movies, because Transcendence is out this week. This good-looking, arid,...
Bears Looking Into
If you have small children, by now you probably know the drill with these new Disneynature documentaries: lots of breathtaking photography and nothing that...
No. 1 Pick
I heard other people pitching Draft Day as the NFL version of Moneyball. Certainly this movie is going for the same thing as Bennett...
