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Men in Black 3: Go Back in Time (at 2012 Prices)

By Nick Pinkerton, May 24, 2012

Can any one of the millions of Americans who saw Men in Black 2 in 2002 describe its plot today? A single scene? I saw both MIB movies upon their... More>>

The Dictator: Sacha Baron Cohen Misses the Comedy Revolution

Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator Misses the Comedy Revolution

By Karina Longworth, May 17, 2012

In his third collaboration with director Larry Charles, Sacha Baron Cohen plays Admiral General Aladeen, the young, dumb dictator of fictional... More>>

Battleship: Because Every Generation Needs an Armageddon

By Nick Pinkerton, May 17, 2012

Every once in a while, a movie comes along that's so utterly shameless that it achieves a certain grandeur. Peter Berg's Battleship, which, I... More>>

Bernie: Richard Linklater Goes Deep in the Heart of Texas

By Nick Pinkerton, May 17, 2012

Richard Linklater's Bernie is the rarest of rarities: a truly unexpected film. It might be classified as a black comedy, for it deals with the... More>>

Sound of My Voice: Brit Marling Preaches End Times

By Karina Longworth, May 17, 2012

Twentysomething Silver Lake couple Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius) talk their way into an unnamed cult that meets in the... More>>

Dark Shadows: Johnny Depp As Vampire Family Man

By Nick Pinkerton, May 10, 2012

Much of Tim Burton's output over the past decade has been concerned with slipping the "Burton treatment" to susceptible texts: Roald Dahl's... More>>

Bobcat Goldthwait Is Making Comedies in His Own Register

By Karina Longworth, May 10, 2012

Bobcat Goldthwait is moving farther and farther away from Hollywood — the industry that paid him to star in three Police Academy movies and... More>>

God Bless America

By Nick Pinkerton, May 10, 2012

Frank (Joel Murray) is an outcast. We first meet this divorced, 50-ish, glumly alcoholic white-collar worker — the protagonist of Bobcat... More>>

The Avengers: Superheroes Bump Superegos

New Times film

By Karina Longworth, May 03, 2012

At the start of Joss Whedon's long-awaited Marvel superhero supergroup flick, The Avengers, the Tesseract — a powerful, potentially... More>>

The Deep Blue Sea: Lovers Try to Stay Above Water

New Times film review

By Nick Pinkerton, April 26, 2012

The Deep Blue Sea, the first fiction feature in a dozen years from visionary British director Terence Davies, is a film about love that in no way... More>>

The Power of Restraint in the Films of The Deep Blue Sea's Terence Davies

By Nick Pinkerton, April 26, 2012

With The Deep Blue Sea, the great British director Terence Davies returns to the post-war period — though in a sense, he has never left.... More>>

Damsels in Distress: Things Are Looking Up in College-Girl Fantasy Land

New Times film review

By Eric Hynes, April 19, 2012

Back with his first film in 14 years, Whit Stillman still operates in a world of his own. It's true both in respect to the singularity of his... More>>

Marley

By Melissa Anderson, April 19, 2012

I spotted a bottle of something called Marley's Mellow Mood, "a new line of 100 percent natural relaxation beverages," in my neighborhood deli... More>>

The Lucky One

By Chuck Wilson, April 19, 2012

It's Nicholas Sparks' world; we just live in it. Sparks, in case you haven't scanned the paperback racks lately, is the former pharmaceutical... More>>

Whit Stillman Returns Triumphant with Damsels in Distress

By Karina Longworth, April 19, 2012

Whit Stillman made a name for himself making semiautobiographical, deadpan, highly literate comedies about the night lives of idle heirs (his... More>>

The Cabin in the Woods: Joss Whedon's Horror Film Can't See the Forest for the Trees

New Times film review

By Mark Olsen, April 12, 2012

At the end of The Cabin in the Woods, theworld is destroyed by an apocalyptic hand of fate — an actual hand, mind you — yet that is... More>>

This Is Not a Film: Jafar Panahi Is a Filmmaker Who Isn't

New Times film review

By Karina Longworth, April 12, 2012

In 2010, the internationally celebrated Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was arrested at his home. A neorealist who has been a vocal opponent of... More>>

Sorta-Comedians Tim and Eric on Influences, Audiences, and What's Not Funny

By Aaron Hillis, April 05, 2012

Watch any 11-minute episode of Adult Swim's warped, experimental sketch series Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, and then try to explain... More>>

Titanic 3D

By Nick Pinkerton, April 05, 2012

A historical romance with a then-unheard-of price tag, James Cameron's 1997 Titanic was the nearest thing to a Gone With the Wind-style cinematic... More>>

The Flowers of War

By Tim Grierson, March 29, 2012

Zhang Yimou was an ideal choice to be chief director of the 2008 Beijing Olympics's opening and closing ceremonies. With recent movies like House... More>>

The Hunger Games

By Melissa Anderson, March 22, 2012

"If no one watches, then they don't have a game," a teenager says in this faithful if cautious adaptation of the first volume of Suzanne Collins'... More>>

Footnote

By Karina Longworth, March 22, 2012

In the first scene of 2012 Israel's Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee, Footnote, Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi) — a 40-something... More>>

21 Jump Street

By Melissa Anderson, March 15, 2012

Bro, how times have changed: 21 Jump Street is now a buddy comedy. The television show 21 Jump Street, about cops who go undercover as... More>>

Being Flynn

By Karina Longworth, March 15, 2012

Written and directed by Paul Weitz, Being Flynn is an adaptation of Nick Flynn's 2004 memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, which explored... More>>

Will Ferrell-in-Spanish Flick, Casa de Mi Padre, a "Preposterous" Concept

New Times film feature

By Karina Longworth, March 15, 2012

How did the Will Ferrell-in-Spanish movie ever get made? Casa de Mi Padre is a Spanish-language comedy starring Will Ferrell as a simpleminded,... More>>