Terri (2011) **/*****

Terri is a film that fits very comfortably into a box marked independent dark comedies about disenfranchised youth…

Friends With Benefits (2011) **/*****

Every once in a while a director comes along who makes movies that tickle everyone else’s…

Micmacs à tire-larigot (2009) ****/*****

A lot of people can’t handle films as pointedly whimsical and precious as Micmacs. But…

Short Round: In a Lonely Place (1950) ****/*****

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) ****/*****

Camera Buff (1979) ***/*****

This isn’t one of my favorite Kieslowski films. While the best works of his I’ve seen are complex, artistic…

Short Round: Unknown (2011) **/*****

I’ve maybe never in my life seen a film that is so content to try nothing and achieve even…

Short Round: The Hustler (1961) ****/*****

Based on Scorcese’s 1986 followup, and the fact that it’s called The Hustler, I…

Horrible Bosses (2011) ***/*****

One of the side characters we meet in Horrible Bosses used to be a hotshot on Wall Street, but since…

Attack the Block (2011) *****/*****

I didn’t have to get too far into Attack the Block before I started to realize that it didn’t…