When Men in Black 3 hits theaters next Memorial Day, almost a decade will have gone by since we last saw Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones together on screen.
Movies
What If They Gave a New Year’s Eve Party and Nobody Came?
Revelers stay home as the box office slumps to its worst weekend in three years
Tinker Tailor is Worth Spying
How do you know a colleague has been sleeping with your wife? In Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, George Smiley (Gary Oldman) drops his eyes to the floor of his living room and lets them travel under a table, where the culprit’s feet …
Filthy Secrets of the 10-Best Movies List
A critic comes clean about his Declaration of Principles… he means Prejudices… he means Pleasures. Which must explain why Fast Five is on the list.
Counting Down New Year’s Eve: Who’s in it the Most?
A few weeks ago I was walking along a New York subway platform when I noticed the movie poster for Garry Marshall’s New Year’s Eve. It’s the follow-up (same director, same writer, same producers) to 2010 Valentine’s Day. Both are …
Madonna’s W.E.: The Woman She Loves
The singer-director opens her heart to that material girl of the ’30s, Wallis Simpson, in a mix-tape of history and fantasy that not many fans will cherish
Young Adult: Charlize Theron Finds Life After High School
Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman, the writer and director of Juno, respectively, reteam for the wayward tale of a prom queen who never grew up
Anything Can Happen on New Year’s Eve—Except That Not Much Does
After an illustrious career celebrating princesses and prostitutes in film, 77 year-old director Garry Marshall has settled into a sort of Happy Days redux phase focused on holiday pictures. First Valentine’s Day in 2010 and …
We Need to Talk about Tilda Swinton
If extraterrestrials sent Tilda Swinton to Scotland as an undercover emissary — and my profile of the actress in this week’s TIME (which can be found here) doesn’t rule out that possibility — they didn’t get her disguise …
We Need To Talk About Kevin—About a (Bad) Boy
Director Lynne Ramsay opens We Need to Talk About Kevin, her highbrow horror film about motherhood, with writhing bodies jammed together Hieronymus Bosch-style. Red fluid sprays across bare shoulders and bubbles up around knees. …
The Sitter: Guns, Cocaine and Jonah Hill’s Adventures in Babysitting
There’s a lovely, empowering “It Gets Better” message about being gay embedded in David Gordon Green’s snappy comedy The Sitter. But don’t get the wrong idea: The sweet scene arrives at about the halfway point between …
Fast Five is One of TIME’s Top 10 Movies of 2011
No, seriously. On our list of the best movies of 2011, chosen by Richard Corliss — our film critic of 31 years — the fourth sequel to 2001’s The Fast & The Furious comes in at number 10.
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