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‘New Moon’ a tick better than first ‘Twilight’
The Twilight Saga: New Moon, also known as "Twilight: The Squeakquel," is actually pretty good — a tick better than the...
‘Once,’ again
In the name of Parker Posey, Natalie Portman and all other patron saints of Manic Pixie Dream Girls (MPDG): Could you just... not, anymore?...
More free dumb!
The exhaustive brilliance of both Mad Max: Fury Road and Creed means you can’t dismiss a sequel outright just because of a decades-long gap...
Streaming cat blues
The bad news: the novel
coronavirus has disrupted life as we know it, and will for the next couple
months. But, you’ve gone to the store,...
Slow-mo Poirot
Whether you find the latest adaptation of the Agatha Christie classic, Murder on the Orient Express, “deliberate” or “boring” hinges entirely on the delight...
‘Madness in the middle’
If you’ve seen a hundred Westerns, then you’ve seen it a hundred times: a mysterious figure rides into town looking for someone. With guns...
Hurry up, sunset
Sacrilege though it may be to fellow comic aficionados, facts are still facts: As a character, Wolverine kind of sucks. Moody and hairy, the...
Death of the handmade
Clothes make the man. But who makes the clothes? Nowadays, most of us walk around wearing cookie-cutter shirts, pants and jackets, all produced en masse and for no one in particular. Sure, they come in a variety of standardized sizes, but very few bodies are standard...
Fantastic furry fun in ‘Mr. Fox’
In a world of children’s films increasingly characterized by technological accomplishment and sophisticated rendering in lieu of good old-fashioned storytelling, it was a breath of fresh air to enjoy the stop-motion Fantastic Mr. Fox...
‘The Crazies’ has some scares, but not enough
The two stupidest words in the history of horror movies...
For its director and young star, ‘Precious’ is ready to pop
Precious is hardly the feel-good movie of 2009, but the people...


















