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Jeff, Who Lives at Home 1 May 2012 | 09:37 am
2 “Cyrus + 1 “Signs” = 3 “Jeff, Who Lives at Home” Brothers Jay and Mark Duplass, seem to want American comedy to be more Gervaisian. Not Gervaisian, as in shock-the-black-tie-establishment, but mor...
21 Jump Street 1 May 2012 | 09:36 am
1½ “Starsky and Hutch” + 1 Mark Wahlberg = 2½ 21 Jump Street The revelation is Channing Tatum, who proves himself a winning comedic presence opposite Jonah Hill, who spends much of the movie playing...
X-Men: First Class 30 Apr 2012 | 03:04 pm
The first “X-Men” film, directed and co-written by Bryan Singer (“The Usual Suspects”), framed the mythology of “mutants” as the Civil Rights movement; militant Magneto is the Malcolm X figure, with P...
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 30 Apr 2012 | 01:54 pm
It was a sad spectacle to see Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp go from such impressive and elegant blockbuster storytelling with the first “Pirates” to such incomprehensible nonsense as the last three “...
Thor 30 Apr 2012 | 01:36 pm
What the hell happened to Kenneth Branagh? I mean, this guy was the successor to Sir Laurence Olivier—heck, you could argue that as a director, as a visionary of Shakespeare, his first films bested O...
Undefeated 30 Apr 2012 | 09:36 am
The Undefeated Village Voice film critic Melissa Anderson mostly echoes my opinion of “The Blind Side,” which “peddles the most insidious kind of racism, one in which whiteys (sic) are virtuous savio...
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows 30 Apr 2012 | 09:35 am
1 “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” + 1 “Iron Man 2” = 2 “Sherlock Homes: A Game of Shadows” “Sherlock Holmes” is entertaining enough if you don’t care about coherence. In fact, the movi...
Margin Call 30 Apr 2012 | 09:34 am
2 “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” + 2 “Boiler Room” = 4 Margin Call “Margin Call” is “Wall Street” for the derivatives age. Where Oliver Stone’s movie was about Big Themes: hubris, father-so...
Win Win 30 Apr 2012 | 09:33 am
2 “The Station Agent” + 2 “Vision Quest” = 4 Win-Win More astounding than any of Hollywood’s special effects, this year gave us Coach Paul Giamatti and Manager Phillip Seymour Hoffman. These make no...
Project Nim 30 Apr 2012 | 09:33 am
2 The Bronx is Burning + 2 Peter Singer = 4 “Project Nim” James Marsh, director of “Man on Wire,” about a Frenchman who tightrope walked between the twin towers, finds another small pocket of weirdne...
