Metro Weekly

Film

  • Vocal Prowess

    By on December 20, 2012

    I must confess: I've never seen Les Misérables onstage. Until a few weeks ago, when I finally threw myself into all things Schönberg, Javert and...

  • Hobbit Forming

    By on December 13, 2012

    I was ready to be underwhelmed by The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Nearly a decade after The Return of the King, director Peter Jackson hasn't...

  • Mobster Capitalism

    By on November 29, 2012

    If you're looking for a mediocre night at the movie theater, look no further than Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly. It has everything: a retread...

  • Bond That Binds

    By on November 9, 2012

    Midway through Sam Mendes's Skyfall, James Bond is stuck in a familiar situation. He's tied to chair, smirking as a peculiar-looking man lectures him on...

  • Log Cabin Fever

    By on November 8, 2012

    Lincoln is why Hollywood should exist. Steven Spielberg's wonderful film about our 16th president isn't a war epic or a maudlin biography. The film only...

  • Unfilmable

    By on October 25, 2012

    If there's anything worth praising in Cloud Atlas, the colossal adaptation of David Mitchell's nesting doll of a novel, it's the spectacle. Directors Tom Tykwer,...

  • Survival Instincts

    By on October 11, 2012

    I don't have to tell you that How to Survive a Plague is an important film. Nor do I have to tell you that it...

  • Killing Yourself

    By on October 4, 2012

    There's no such thing as time travel without plot holes. As characters jump backward and forward in a timeline, technical complexities multiply. Laws of physics...

  • Hot Mess

    By on October 4, 2012

    The Paperboy is a hot mess. ''Hot'' because it contrives to get Zac Efron out of his clothes as often as possible. ''Mess'' because it's...

  • Teenage Idols

    By on September 27, 2012

    We've all been there. Those moments -- almost always among friends -- when everything fits together in a fit of transcendental bliss. They're fleeting, of...

  • Cult Classic

    By on September 20, 2012

    The Master is a magnum opus of conflict. No man, attitude, sight or sound is immune to its discord. Paul Thomas Anderson uses every millimeter...

  • Mean Girls

    By on September 13, 2012

    Let's just get this out of the way: Leslye Headland's Bachelorette is not a Bridesmaids rip-off. Yes, both films revolve around women misbehaving at weddings,...

  • Sleeper Film

    By on September 7, 2012

    This much is obvious about comedian Mike Birbiglia: The guy knows how to brush off trauma. After taking a leap through a second-story window of...

  • Bootleg Beauty

    By on August 30, 2012

    Eight years ago, director John Hillcoat and artist Nick Cave made a brilliant movie called The Proposition. Set amid a battle between a gang of...

  • Hollywood ''Bra-mance''

    By on August 30, 2012

    What's a gay man doing directing the female equivalent of a bromance? ''I don't speak for all gay men when I say this,'' says For...