The Counselor: Hard-Boiled Hokum
The world presented in Cormac McCarthy’s original screenplay (his first) is mind-numbingly portentous and brutal
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Don Jon: Love, Lust and Loneliness
Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s debut as writer-director is glib and fun—and even better when Julianne Moore is onscreen
Enough Said: When Tony Met Elaine
Nicole Holofcener’s clever comedy of errors features the late James Gandolfini in a tender, funny performance
The World’s End: Sly, Wry Sci-Fi
Edgar Wright’s boozy sci-fi comedy tackles technology, commercialism and lost youth
Ashton Kutcher in Jobs: A Myth’d Opportunity
Kutcher and the rest of the cast do fine work, but the biopic lacks its subject’s famous focus and intensity
2 Guns: They Shoot, They Bore
Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg flirt with each other in this sloppy, gun-centric action flick
Despicable Me 2: It’s Gru Love
The Minion-centric sequel — which introduces Kristen Wiig as Gru’s object of affection — tops the original
White House Down: D.C. Meets Die Hard
Jamie Foxx (as POTUS) and Channing Tatum (as protector) make an engaging pair of First Buddies
This Is the End: Apocalypse, Like, Wow
Young Hollywood plays itself in Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s raunchy, hilarious comedy
Brit Marling on Writing, Anarchists, and the Need to Get Her Heart Broken
The star and co-writer of ‘The East’ also explains why she prefers acting in other people’s movies
The Kings of Summer: Boys N the Woods
Three 15 year-olds run away from home and set up house in the woods
Before Midnight: Very True Romance
The third—and our reviewer hopes, not last—film in the superb ‘Before’ series is sharp, poignant, and absolutely riveting
The Hangover Part III: The Third Time’s the Harm
Did we really need two more ‘Hangover’ movies? What happened in Vegas should’ve stayed in Vegas