Have you noticed the new trend in Top Ten lists? Some critics now produce more than one list, ranging from quick and dirty ones for critic’s polls (like Indiewire’s or MSN Movies) to carefully argued lists for one’s …
The year’s best coming-of-age film has slipped in just under the wire. Pariah, which opens this week with a limited release geared towards awards season, opens in a lesbian club where shy Brooklyn teenager Alike (Adepero Oduye) …
In Angelina Jolie’s respectful and more than respectable directorial debut, the grimly immersive In the Land of Blood and Honey, a woman ends up in a Serbian rape camp overseen by a man she had a fleeting romance with on the …
Child star Thomas Horn is so good, Stephen Daldry’s weepfest nearly overcomes its Unbearable Cuteness
Every parent sacrifices: hours logged at cold skating rinks, wet soccer fields, airless American Girl stores. And that’s the stuff that comes after toilet training. Then there are the movies targeted at children too young to …
For a film critic, there is no sadder assignment than this one. By March I’d already seen enough terrible 2011 releases to write a completely adequate Ten Worst Movies list. But I couldn’t stop there. Off I went to my …
How do you know a colleague has been sleeping with your wife? In Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, George Smiley (Gary Oldman) drops his eyes to the floor of his living room and lets them travel under a table, where the culprit’s feet …
After an illustrious career celebrating princesses and prostitutes in film, 77 year-old director Garry Marshall has settled into a sort of Happy Days redux phase focused on holiday pictures. First Valentine’s Day in 2010 and …
Director Lynne Ramsay opens We Need to Talk About Kevin, her highbrow horror film about motherhood, with writhing bodies jammed together Hieronymus Bosch-style. Red fluid sprays across bare shoulders and bubbles up around knees. …
There’s a lovely, empowering “It Gets Better” message about being gay embedded in David Gordon Green’s snappy comedy The Sitter. But don’t get the wrong idea: The sweet scene arrives at about the halfway point between …
A Twitter movement was born this week: #TeamMargaret. The hashtag is a passion plea for You Can Count On Me writer/director Kenneth Lonergan’s second film Margaret, a film that grossed $47,185 in miniature release in late …
TIME loved the novel State of Wonder. We talk to its author about her new venture, Parnassus Books.
The giddy goof-fest The Muppets is a Disney production, but actor Jason Segel, who was born in 1980, is the person most responsible for bringing Jim Henson’s puppets back to the big screen. He shares credit for the screenplay …
