Arthur Christmas: Santa Goes Corporate
If you love Wallace & Gromit, the series of shorts that established Aardman as the wittiest people to ever play with clay, then Arthur Christmas may seem a disconcertingly different animal.
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Michelle Williams Is Magical in My Week with Marilyn
In 1956, Colin Clark, son of famed art historian Kenneth Clark, used the family name to land a job as Laurence Olivier’s third assistant director on The Prince and the Showgirl, a film featuring the improbable romantic pairing …
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn—Part I. More like Breaking Yawn
The world’s most insipid young lovers, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), finally consummate their love in Breaking Dawn—Part 1, the fourth installment in the Twilight series. This is cause for …
London Boulevard Calling: Don’t Answer
Who still has the patience for that all too-familiar cinematic hero, the guy who gets out of prison vowing never to return to a life of crime and then immediately gets sucked back in by some paternalistic gangster?
Jack and Jill: What An Awful Drag
More than 24 hours has passed since I watched the new Adam Sandler movie Jack and Jill and I am still dead inside. It made me feel as if comedy itself were a dirty thing, mainly practiced by people eager to express ugly feelings …
TIME Recommends: Joan Didion’s Blue Nights
In her new memoir, Didion writes about how magical thinking no longer seemed possible following the loss of her daughter.
The Son of No One: Rightfully Unwanted
Channing Tatum plays a cop assigned to his old neighborhood in this sleepy crime drama
Tower Heist: Occupy the Penthouse
The timely Tower Heist, which is twice as funny as I thought it would be but not half as funny as it could have been, is about a working class rebellion among the service employees in a luxury Manhattan high-rise. Their target in …
The Perils of Reading About Pauline Kael
After reading Brian Kellow’s biography, I still adore film critic Pauline Kael. But I’m glad I didn’t know her.
Gaga in Love With Like Crazy
Most movie romances dwell on the chase, fading to black shortly after both parties first acknowledge that, yeah, maybe they do love each other. In the first few minutes of Like Crazy, Anna (Felicity Jones), a young Englishwoman …
Anonymous: So Shakespeare Was a Fraud? Really?
Disaster flick director Roland Emmerich turns Shakespeare into an illiterate baboon.
John Hawkes’ Strange and Dangerous Sex Appeal
Everyone loves Elizabeth Olsen in Martha Marcy May Marlene. Now, some adulation for the movie’s cult leader John Hawkes.
Margin Call: A Financial Crisis Film Collides With The Zeitgeist
There’s a big cineplex a few blocks away from lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park. Should Margin Call open there this weekend, the Occupy Wall Street protesters might consider marching over for a reminder of what it is they’re …