1. When did the tide start to turn on Ron Burgundy? It's a strange thing: Since Will Ferrell introduced his greatest…
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1. David O. Russell is a director who doesn't know what he's doing. I say this with legitimate, if cautious,…
1. "Don't knock masturbation," says Woody Allen's Alvy Singer in Annie Hall. "It's sex with someone I love." Her is…
Over the next few weeks, we'll be examining the merits—and relative lack of merits—of all 36 players on this year's…
1. The first Hunger Games movie was entertaining enough, but still plodding, awkward, and weighed down with so much…
1. It's funny how many of the Avengers are stiffs. Sure, Iron Man is all wry and meta, and The Hulk, particularly…
In his blistering, deeply moving Grantland essay about 12 Years A Slave, Wesley Morris lays waste to decades of…
1. I never got to write about Gravity in this space—Grierson took that for us—but I found it as terrific as most…
1. Twelve Years a Slave is a devastating movie experience, one that will leave you shaking with anger. This is not…
1. There's a moment in Paul Greengrass' United 93, one of the best films of the last decade, in which we are invited…
1. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is one of those actors for whom I find it nearly impossible not to root. He has an inherent,…
1. The John Muhammed/Lee Malvo Beltway shootings in October 2002 continue to occupy a specific segment of the…
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1. You're Next is officially a horror movie—it is sold the way all horror movies are sold these days, with an…
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1. Lee Daniels is a total lunatic of a director, a man who knows nothing of restraint, decorum or moderation.…
1. Elysium, like writer-director Neill Blomkamp's much-loved first film District 9, is very concerned with making…
The Canyons opens (and ends, over the closing credits) with photographs of abandoned, dilapidated movie theaters,…
The Conjuring didn't literally scare the piss out of me, but it was close, and all told, there might have been a…
1. Lord help me, I couldn't have been happier coming out of Pacific Rim. It's not a great movie—it's just barely a…
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