Southern Gothic sex drives this lurid melodrama from the director of ‘Precious’
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Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie: A Re-animated Delight
This expansion of Tim Burton’s 1984 short film is black and white and dead all over — and the most inventive, endearing animated feature of the year
Ang Lee’s Life of Pi: The Next Avatar
After James Cameron’s blockbuster, this boy-meets-tiger adventure story proves how 3-D can create a world of wonder
Won’t Back Down: Maggie Gyllenhaal Burns to Be Erin Brockovich
Maggie Gyllenhaal gives an intense and over-the-top, I-want-my-Oscar performance as a fictional school reformer
Travel Advisory for Hotel Transylvania: Avoid this Establishment
The world’s monsters are all scared of humans, so they hide out at a hotel run by Count Dracula (Adam Sandler). Let’s call it Motel Monsters, Inc.
Pitch Perfect: Back to School Isn’t Usually This Much Fun
In this raunchy comedy set in the world of competitive collegiate a cappella (yeah, that’s a thing), Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson and Elizabeth Banks hit all the right notes
Looper: (500) Days of The Terminator
Joseph Gordon-Levitt battles his future self — Bruce Willis — in Rian Johnson’s thoughtful, confident sci-fi crime drama
J.K. Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy: We’ve Read It, Here’s What We Think
It’s not really possible to open The Casual Vacancy without a lot of expectations both high and low crashing around in your brain and distorting your vision. There’s no point pretending they’re not there. I know I had a lot of, …
End of Watch: City of Angels in Blue
Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña are the heroic-bromantic couple in David Ayer’s jittery love letter to cops on the beat
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel Celebrates the Reign of the Empress of Fashion
If there’s one thing we learned from this feast-for-the-eyes documentary, made by Vreeland’s granddaughter-in-law, it’s that the mind has to race to keep up with the inimitable Vogue editor
The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Emma Watson Goes to Pittsburgh
Harry Potter’s Hermione comforts a lonely high-school freshman in Stephen Chbosky’s film of his young-adult best-seller
Trouble With the Curve: A Solid Hit for Clint Eastwood
At 82, the Hollywood icon and RNC ad-libber gets good wood on a baseball story as venerable and compelling as its star
The Killers Are Both Grand and Forgettable with Battle Born
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There is something deeply, embarrasingly satisfying about The …