Wendy and Lucy (review)
The first great joy of this tart little portrait is Michelle Williams’s achingly contradictory performance as Wendy…
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Watchmen (review)
Probably the best three-hour version of the story that could be made…
An American Affair (review)
It was originally titled *Boy of Pigs*, which captures the near-risibility of a movie that attempts to conflate the sexual awakening of one lonely adolescent with so traumatic an event as the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (review)
Why do we love Sidney, even as he is spectacularly unpalatable, contradictory, hypocritcal, a lout, a louse, plagued by poor judgment, and a terrible dresser? Because he’s Simon Pegg.
Fired Up! (review)
I’ve always suspected that teen-boy fantasies like the execrable *Fired Up!* had to be based on the adolescent wet dreams of 40something Hollywood nerds…
Waltz with Bashir (review)
More illustrated than animated, more *Maus* than Mouse…
The International (review)
Corruption! High finance! Political murder! Clive Owen!
Coraline (review)
An elemental tale of childhood fantasies and nightmares…
Push (review)
Dakota Fanning is the Littlest Action Hero in this disappointingly generic shoot-’em-up…
Chocolate (review)
Alas that the most intriguing thing about this martial-arts kickfest is its wave-of-the-future release schedule.
