One scene captures the tricky tonal balance of cancer comedy 50/50. Adam, the straight-edge radio producer played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt,…
“Where am I?” a disoriented Israeli cabdriver asks his dispatcher at the beginning of Elia Suleiman’s The Time That Remains….
“Great,” sighs the wicked witch in this CG-animated spin on the Rapunzel story, “now I’m the bad guy.” Mother Gothel,…
Youth fled early for Hermione Granger, Harry Potter, and Ron Weasley, the trio at the center of the Harry Potter…
Watch what James Franco—actor/sleepy grad student/tepid writer/viral-video comedian/ conceptual artist/aficionado of gender-fuckery—can accomplish when he actually focuses for a couple…
It would be unwise to consider Four Lions a movie that has much to say about radical Islam or the…
A quartet of uneven TV pilots posing as a full-length documentary, Seth Gordon’s anthology Freakonomics pulls case studies from Stephen…
Jack Goes Boating is Philip Seymour Hoffman’s movie—it’s his directorial debut; he stars as its namesake sad sack; he wears…
Sure to become a sacred text to surf-movie enthusiasts, but surprisingly watchable even for those who think “goofy-footing” is a…
Around a Small Mountain travels with an itinerant one-ring circus of proud artisans, performing to shrinking rural crowds. “We’re the…
Midway through this teen comedy–cum–wish fulfillment fantasy, the movie’s hero, Kevin Carson, goes on a spending spree. The holder of…
In Steve Carell’s first few episodes of The Office, the series hewed closely to Ricky Gervais’ BBC template. But here,…
Did I say “Awww” at Babies? I did. Did I giggle at the adorable things babies do in Babies? Oh…
Writer Andy Diggle dedicated his snappy DC comic book The Losers to ’80s screenwriting superstar Shane Black, creator of the…
A fundamentally lazy comedy that will probably make you laugh like an idiot, HTTM was ostensibly directed by Steve Pink….
