An award-winning cartoonist pens a graphic novel about his high school classmate, a shy teenager who would become a monster.
Reviews
Broadway’s Old New Hit: Death of a Salesman
Even a flawed production proves, yet again, that it’s the indestructible play
Madonna’s MDNA: The Queen of Pop Wants You to Dance, Not Think
Madge stays at the club for her 12th album, but the bad girl struggles to sound fresh.
The Deep Blue Sea: The Passion of Terence Davies
Rachel Weisz is superb as a willful woman torn between love and propriety in a brilliant rethinking of the Terence Rattigan play.
Tony Kaye’s Detachment: A Miserable Education
Get ready to wallow; the director of American History X turns his sights on a high school where nobody is having any fun at all.
The Hunger Games: The Odds are Not in Your Favor
The movie version of Suzanne Collins’ best-seller misses the book’s ferocity, but who cares? Fans will flock by the millions to the biggest franchise since Twilight.
The Shins’ Port of Morrow: A Worthy (If Bumpy) Trip
Things get slightly electronic on the band’s first album in five years. And though mostly enjoyable, none of these songs will change your life.
Jeff, Who Lives at Home: A Slacker Comedy with Heart
In this surprisingly touching comedy from the Duplass brothers, Jason Segel plays Jeff, who lives at home and by the end, also in your heart.
Casa de mi Padre No Es Bueno
In this subtitled comedy that mocks telenovas, Will Ferrell proves he could order dinner in Spanish, but that’s about it.
21 Jump Street: Rude Fun at Fantasy High
Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum play undercover cops in this smart spoof of both the old TV show and every high-school movie ever
A Pair of Fish Tales: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and Jiro Dreams of Sushi
The snappy dialogue tops the drama in Lasse Hallström’s Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. Meanwhile a documentary about perhaps the world’s greatest sushi chef is hunger-inducing.
Silent House, Shrieking Heroine
Elizabeth Olsen plays a young woman trapped in a house full of strange noises and dark secrets. She gets so scared she throws up; we almost joined in.
John Carter: Andrew Stanton’s Martian Mission Impossible
From the director of Finding Nemo and WALL·E comes an ambitious, wayward version of a century-old story that plays like a pallid remake of Avatar