Mary Pols

Mary Pols has been reviewing film and occasionally books for TIME since 2009. She has degrees from Duke University, where she studied art history, and the University of California Berkeley’s School of Journalism. Before joining TIME, she worked as a reporter and a movie critic for several California newspapers. She wrote a memoir about parenthood that was turned into a television comedy (not Weeds).

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The Innkeepers: More Clerks Than Spooks

In The Innkeepers, writer/director Ti West’s first true project since his acclaimed 80’s retro horror film The House of the Devil, a pair of likeable slacker clerks, Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy), are left in charge …

This Man on a Ledge Is Pretty Wobbly

The rage against the economic machine that exploded forth from movie theaters in late 2011 (Margin Call, Tower Heist, In Time) continues in Man on a Ledge. In this slight, but crowd-pleasing caper, a blue-collar hero (Sam …

Red Tails: So Square It Can Barely Fly

Against the great odds of pervasive bigotry, a group of black pilots from the Tuskegee training program flew in World War II, shooting down German planes, bombing trains and trucks and even taking out a destroyer. They sacrificed …

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