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

Movie Reviews & Stories There is something heartbreakingly true in witnessing a wizened writer in his mid-30s demand of an intern, “Why are you sitting there in front of that screen? You’re a young man!” Why are    More

Movie Reviews & Stories This Is Not a Film opens with Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi alone at his breakfast table, spreading jam on flatbread and talking to a friend over speakerphone. “I’m stuck in a problem,” he    More

Movie Reviews & Stories Can there be a more insulting “fish out of water” trope than putting a bored black man in front of a chamber orchestra, then holding for laughs? It’s where poor Omar Sy finds himself as Dris   More

Movie Reviews & Stories The opening credits of Alex Ross Perry’s The Color Wheel use the same swollen font the first edition of Portnoy’s Complaint had on its front cover. That’s no accident: Both works are young men   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Something is terribly wrong with the world when we’re getting a third Men in Black movie and still don’t know what happened after...   More

Movie Reviews & Stories According to one expert in First Position, the keys to making it in the cutthroat world of ballet are “body, training, passion, personality.” Freshman director Bess Kargman manages to find s   More