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Review: Total Recall

Loud, humorless, and devoid of irony
For a writer who has defined contemporary paranoia, Philip K. Dick hasn't had luck with the adaptations of his work.

By: PETER KEOUGH | August 07, 2012

Review: The Babymakers

Gross-out comedy
The fine art of the jizz joke probably peaked with There's Something About Mary , but that doesn't stop Jay Chandresekhar from beating it to death in this gross-out comedy.

By: PETER KEOUGH | August 02, 2012

Interview: Zoe Kazan brings the write stuff to Ruby Sparks

In your dreams
Her parents are both Hollywood screenwriters, and her grandfather, Elia Kazan, was a legendary director, so it couldn't have been a surprise when Zoe Kazan chose a career in show business as opposed to, say, becoming an accountant or a park ranger.

By: PETER KEOUGH | August 01, 2012

Review: The Watch

A lapse in good taste
The Watch is hard to watch.

By: PETER KEOUGH | August 01, 2012

Review: The Queen of Versailles

You couldn’t invent a better metaphor for America’s economic injustice and insanity.

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 27, 2012

The cast and crew shed light on The Dark Knight

Occupational hazards
More than your average comic-book-hero movie — Green Lantern (2011) and Fantastic Four (2005) come to mind — Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy has demonstrated an uncanny political insight and prescience.

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 18, 2012

Review: The Dark Knight Rises

Not so serious
No other superhero has less fun than the Batman (Christian Bale) of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy.

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 18, 2012

Review: Unforgivable

Voyeurism and narcissism
Lucky for André Téchiné that he's so slick with exposition.

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 17, 2012

Review: Trishna

Tess of the D'Urbervilles set in present-day India
If nothing else, Michael Winterbottom's updating of Tess of the D'Urbervilles to present-day India proves that Thomas Hardy will depress you no matter what the setting.

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 17, 2012

Review: Neil Young Journeys

Young having the time of his life
Young is old now, and in Demme's film, looking like a stubbly coot in a battered Panama hat, he's having the time of his life.

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 10, 2012

Review: Sleepless Night

Frédéric Jardin's expert thriller
"We're in deep shit," says one of the perpetrators of a bungled drug heist in Frédéric Jardin's expert thriller. It's about to get deeper.

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 10, 2012

Review: Drunkboat

Hamming it up
Despite a title taken from Rimbaud's poem, Bob Meyer's debut has less in common with the wunderkind symbolist than with David Mamet and the Coen Brothers.

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 11, 2012

Interview: Survivors speak out in Kirby Dick’s shocking War

Invisible no more
The career of documentarian Kirby Dick begins with aspects of individual sexuality, in films like 1986's Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate and 1997's Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist .

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 09, 2012

Review: The Amazing Spider-Man

Only one story
There's only one story, says the teacher near the end of this take-two of the Spider-Man franchise: who am I?

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 03, 2012

Review: The Invisible War

Kirby Dick's documentary on rape in the military
A few years ago, documentarian Kirby Dick read an article about rape among the troops and was shocked to see that no one had made a movie on the subject.

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 03, 2012

Review: Take This Waltz

People, not clichés
Margot (Michelle Williams), who makes ends meet grinding out PR pamphlets, wants to be happy with her husband Lou (Seth Rogen), a cookbook writer. However, like many Seth Rogen characters, Lou's more a grab-assing buddy than a lover.

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 05, 2012