Movie Reviews & Stories Tim Burton takes a lot of guff. Admittedly, much of it is justified. Any director brazen enough to think the world was clamoring for a mall-goth interpretation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory   More

Movie Reviews & Stories A high point of nerve-wracked Norwegian thriller Headhunters finds its protagonist, a corporate recruiting agent named Roger Brown (Aksel Hennie), desperately navigating a rain-slicked road on the   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Tract houses and taupe shag carpeting: For the tight few opening minutes of Sound of My Voice, this is the mundanely hellish world of the modern cult. Peter and Lorna (Christopher Denham and Nicol   More

Movie Reviews & Stories In helming The Avengers—the long-awaited convergence of four Marvel Comics properties into one gargantuan nesting doll of a summer blockbuster—Joss Whedon is burdened with glorious purpose.    More

Movie Reviews & Stories The films of Hayao Miyazaki and the other animators associated with Tokyo’s Studio Ghibli are renowned for their illustrative elegance and wondrous imagination. Funny, then, that the company o   More

Movie Reviews & Stories No wonder they lumber and moan. Zombies are the hardest-working ghouls in cinema, walking hunks of rotting flesh forced, like shambling Atlases, to shoulder metaphors both fascinating and overwr   More

Movie Reviews & Stories So many peculiar and archaic sights in Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress, yet I keep thinking about the artichokes. They sit steaming in a kitchen pot as a trio of undergraduates at Seven Oaks   More

Movie Reviews & Stories The most interesting thing about history is always the “what if.” What if, for example, Edgar Allan Poe were actually a dashingly romantic, goateed action hero shaped like John Cusack, who g   More

Movie Reviews & Stories Fake It So Real  At a time when it’s become perfectly acceptable for an adult to get a tattoo of a Stormtrooper, the last true outcast culture left in America just might be professional    More

Movie Reviews & Stories Of all the annual cinematic celebrations of group identity, the Jewish film festival seems the least necessary. Call me self-loathing, but I do not think my ancestors have been underrepresented    More