An all-star cast, sentimental rom-com antics and multiple sub-plots can’t save Kirk Jones’ latest from still birth
Review
Moonrise Kingdom: Escapees from a Doll House
The 2012 Cannes Film Festival kicks off with Wes Anderson’s sweet tale of runaway lovers on the cusp of adolescence
Sacha Baron Cohen’s The Dictator: He Has Ways of Making You Laugh
As Borat and Brüno he was the supreme scamp of ambush comedy. Now he channels Gaddafi for his riskiest venture: being kind of sweet
Tonight You’re Mine: A Ball-and-Chain, Rock-’n'-Roll Romance
They meet, they fight, they’re handcuffed together. How else can two people who hate each other fall in love at a Scottish music festival?
Johnny Depp in Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows: Death Warmed Over
In their eighth film together, the star and his favorite director turn the ’60s horror soap opera into a middling pastiche
Where Do We Go Now?: A Dramedy About Women Trying to Stop War
They want peace. How do they get it? With belly dancers and hashish, for starters.
Girl in Progress? Eva Mendes Spins Her Wheels
Eva Mendes is the cutest Bad Mother around in Patricia Riggen’s amiable but slight single mama drama
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: Check In, You Won’t Want to Leave
The combined forces of British acting talent is practically superhuman; like The Avengers for the senior set
First Position: A Documentary That Stays On Point
In her sweetly soft-shoe directorial debut, documentarian Bess Kargman paints a portrait of ambitious young dancers in a highly competitive world
The Raven: Edgar Allen Poe Solves a Serial-Killer Mystery
In this fitfully diverting thriller, the haunted author racks down a crafty psychopath whose crimes mimic Poe’s most gruesome stories
Sound of My Voice: You’ll Want to Listen to This Cult Leader
Forget, just for a moment, the hubbub over HBO’s Girls and Lena Dunham to consider Brit Marling, another talented 20-something who writes her own strong female leads
The Pirates! Band of Misfits: Yo-Ho-OK
The new stop-motion comedy from the Aardman Studios is better than most animated films — except for most other Aardman films
The Five-Year Engagement Feels That Long
Jason Segel puts a ring on Emily Blunt in the new rom-com, but it’s not funny how far away the altar is
