For a film critic, there is no sadder assignment than this one. By March I’d already seen enough terrible 2011 releases to write a completely adequate Ten Worst Movies list. But I couldn’t stop there. Off I went to my …
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Today’s Movie Trailer: Men in Black 3
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.
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.
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
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 …
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.
Cowboys, Aliens, Snakes and Sharks: In Praise of Literal Movie Titles
This piece was originally published on TIME.com in August 2011. We are re-running it for the DVD release of Cowboys and Aliens.
I want to see the movie Cowboys & Aliens. I’m not particularly interested in a story of outer …
Twilight Breaking a Record, Moviegoers Breaking Down
Bella and Edward squeezed another win out of a depleted audience, while The Artist, The Descendants and Shame launched their Oscar drives
Shame Director Steve McQueen on Sex and Silence
After his startling debut feature Hunger, a brutal yet poetic evocation of the 1981 Northern Irish hunger strikes, Turner Prize–winning filmmaker Steve McQueen has returned with Shame, a character study that’s at turns explicit …
Top 10 Least Sexy Sex-Filled Movies
Today’s Movie Trailer: Disney’s John Carter
Walt Disney Pictures’ John Carter doesn’t premiere in theaters until March 2012, but that doesn’t mean that Disney won’t crank up the old buzz machine to get people talking about the interplanetary action flick.
Shame: Michael Fassbender’s Naked Launch
In a ferocious but remote performance as a Manhattan man addicted to sex, the Irish-German star reveals more than his acting skills