Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Chimpan-tastic!
As both a simian simile and a wonder of technology, this reboot is a triumph — the year’s finest action movie
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Cowboys & Aliens: Two Great Genres, One Mediocre Movie
Hollywood sharpies spend endless hours at pitch meetings dreaming up hybrids of famous movies, and sometimes they hit pay dirt. “It’s like Jaws, but on a spaceship”: Alien. Then the hybrid blossoms into its own format until it …
Captain America: Been There, Saved That
Approach Captain America: The First Avenger with caution. It could leave you super-pooped and quite possibly super-duped
Tabloid: The Honey Blonde and the ‘Manacled Mormon’
After Errol Morris’s more sobering films, this larkish documentary about a beauty queen gone bad plays like a vacation at a seedy seaside resort
The Undefeated: Her Holiness Sarah Palin
Stephen K. Bannon’s The Undefeated is a worshipful, no-warts biopic of Sarah Palin, a former Miss Wasilla who could be the next President of the United States — if she only had the time
Harry Potter: Hail and Farewell to a Hallowed Franchise
The blockbuster series reaches its climax in a solid, satisfying final film
Zookeeper: Kevin James’ Animal Distraction
The star can be funny and endearing, but here he’s buried under derivative gags and ritual humiliation
Cirque du Soleil’s Zarkana: The Summer’s Great Stage Show
With the official premiere of its new show, ‘Zarkana,’ Cirque du Soleil has finally found its ideal home: New York City’s Radio City Music Hall
The New Transformers: Turn On the Dark
For good or ill, director Michael Bay is the soul of a new machine, the poet of post-human cinema, the CEO of Hollywood’s military-entertainment complex
Peter Falk: The One-Eyed Man Was King
Best known as TV’s wily, shambling Lt. Columbo, Falk was also a working-class movie hero, in a half-century career playing comic gangsters, harried husbands and one great granddad
The 25 All-TIME Best Animated Films
They’ve enthralled or terrified generations of kids, and now they’re giant worldwide blockbusters. So what are the best animated features of all time? Using an obscure system of weights and measures, TIME’s Richard Corliss has …
Green Lantern: Not So Super-Hero
The Ryan Reynolds vehicle Green Lantern borrows from old film fantasies to make an Identi-Kit of blockbuster clichés
Company The Movie: Can Dr. Doogie and Stephen Colbert Sing Sondheim?
While theater critics turned up their noses at the TV-ification of a Broadway classic, the film version of Stephen Colbert and Neil Patrick Harris’ April stage show is one of the most satisfying Sondheim productions in years