There’s a big cineplex a few blocks away from lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park. Should Margin Call open there this weekend, the Occupy Wall Street protesters might consider marching over for a reminder of what it is they’re …
Reviews
Paranormal Activity 3: Three’s a Shroud
The third in the haunted-house thriller series meets the standard set by the original: less gore, more scare
Charles Dickens: An Author of Demonic Energy
I didn’t read Claire Tomalin’s Charles Dickens: A Life because I’m a Dickens guy. I’m not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took The Later Dickens, because that was …
M83’s Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming: Pure Bedroom Pop
M83’s Anthony Gonzalez has finally done what so many artists have tried but failed to do: make a pure pop record for the bedroom floor.
Batman: Arkham City—A Knight to Remember
In the same way that Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight was a follow-up that expertly improved upon an already solid original, so too does Arkham City build a richer and more satisfying experience on the sturdy foundation of …
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Review: The Descent of Man Up!
ABC’s newest manxiety sitcom is about men estranged from their masculinity, and it will never let you forget that.
Music Monday: Mayer Hawthorne Channels Motown On How Do You Do
I’m having a hard time writing about Mayer Hawthorne’s sophomore album How Do You Do because all I want to do is listen to the song “A Long Time” over and over again.
Texas Killing Fields: Drenched in the Stench of Death
Avatar’s Sam Worthington and every film’s Jessica Chastain star in a creepily atmospheric true-crime thriller
The Skin I Live In: Almodóvar’s Human Centipede
The great Spanish filmmaker casts Antonio Banderas as a mad-love surgeon, in a surgical thriller designed to make your flesh crawl
Footloose: A Remake That’s Hokey But Heartfelt
Hokey but heartfelt, this remake of the old musical preaches that teens can dance their way out of the Recession
The Big Year: Not Just for the Birds
Big stars Steve Martin, Owen Wilson and Jack Black go small and score in an unexpectedly sweet comedy.
Real Steel Review: Babes in Mad Max Land
Despite the presence of Hugh Jackman, this futurist drama gets mired in ‘bot-dom, which leads to boredom
The Ides of March: Ladies and Gentlemen, President George Clooney
The crinkly liberal icon stars with Ryan Gosling in a savory, skeptical drama about political dreams and how to shatter them