Strange visitor with assimilation challenge shakes up local status quo—we could be talking about Footloose, but we’re in fact referring to The Thing, another recently renewed early ’80s movie memory.

Moneyball is so inside baseball, it’s inside out. Imagine not just another movie reverie on the virtues of the American pastime, but one with the mind-set of a back-office stats wonk. Nonfans will be hard-pressed to think up a more boring prospect—and accordingly shocked at how entertaining the film actually is.

Contagion is the name of the film because it’s also the name of the most developed character.

We greet The Debt with a sense of relief, if only because its title could portend some hasty hectoring documentary about Congress figuring out its financial “super committee,” and this movie is something else.

Sarah’s Key would like to reassure you that there is still a place in this world—or at least in its movie theaters—for the grave Holocaust drama of child endangerment.

By modern movie standards, the polite action-comedy about bumbling criminals seems awfully quaint. Might some refreshment be had from a rude slacker comedy featuring utter dumbshit criminals?

Cowboys & Aliens doesn’t just sound conceptually obvious; it’s obvious in every other way, too.

Captain America: The First Avenger does accurately reflect a few things from actual history. But while the United States did flirt with eugenics for a while, and Nazi Germany did try to vaporize whole populations, those scenes played out a lot less wholesomely in real life than they do as plot points in this adaptation of the Marvel Comics character’s story.

This must begin with a shameful confession: The trailer for Larry Crowne made me want to punch Julia Roberts in the face.

Writer-director André vredal’s film begins with a sober disclaimer. What follows, we’re told, is a chronologically assembled, unretouched trove of haphazard documentary footage, gathered by