Movie Reviews & Stories Odds were that Steven Soderbergh’s career of genre hopscotching would eventually land on a male stripper movie. Taking bits from Midnight Cowboy, Boogie Nights and, strangely, Coyote Ugly, the   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Few threats are as amorphous and frightening as breast cancer. It is nature’s violent misogyny, sex and death bound up far too tightly. Small wonder, I suppose, that Avon or Revlon or Susan G. K   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Can it really be true that through a dozen films, Pixar—the North American animation titan celebrated for its multilayered storytelling and uncommonly complex characters—declined to come up wi   More

Movie Reviews & Stories In a world where the Armageddon plan of attack didn’t work and the asteroid is still coming for us, a dialed-down Steve Carell sits listening to a forecast of the end of the world. His wife fl   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Surviving Progress, Mathieu Roy and Harold Crook’s harangue against modern civilization, is Seeking a Friend for the End of the World for those who prefer their pre-apocalypse movies aggressively    More

Movie Reviews & Stories At the 2009 Tony Awards, Poison singer Bret Michaels performed his band’s 20-year-old party anthem “Nothin’ but a Good Time” in conjunction with Rock of Ages, a Broadway musical glorifying   More

Movie Reviews & Stories At this point, it’s clear Adam Sandler is just trolling us. He’s self-aware enough to know he’s the laziest, most cash-grabbingest comic actor in the country. You can’t even hate him for    More

Movie Reviews & Stories  It is absolutely true that many Victorian-era doctors would masturbate their female patients. It wasn’t...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories In Prometheus, Ridley Scott’s long-anticipated return to the science-fiction genre, the director confronts a...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories How telling, in hindsight, is that scene in The Royal Tenenbaums where Gene Hackman tries to restore Gwyneth Paltrow to her childhood by taking her to an ice cream parlor where the speakers play V   More