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2012 Stories by Nick Pinkerton

• Men in Black 3 Review

  published May 24, 2012

  Can any one of the millions of Americans who saw Men in Black 2 in 2002 describe its plot today? A single scene? I saw both... More >>

• Grand Illusion Rereleased

  published May 17, 2012

  Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion opened in an anxious France in June 1937, as wars were going badly for the Spanish and Chinese republics... More >>

• Robert Bresson Retrospective at the Aero

  published May 10, 2012

  There is a moment at the end of Robert Bresson's penultimate film, The Devil, Probably (1977), when Charles (Antoine Monnier), a young... More >>

• Dark Shadows and God Bless America Reviewed

  published May 10, 2012

  A significant portion of Tim Burton's output over the past decade has been concerned with slipping the "Burton treatment" to susceptible texts:... More >>

• Bernie Review

  published April 26, 2012

  Richard Linklater's Bernie is the rarest of rarities: a truly unexpected film. It might be classified as a black comedy, for it deals... More >>

• Terence Davies Interview

  published March 22, 2012

  With The Deep Blue Sea, the great British director Terence Davies returns to the postwar period — although, in a sense, he has... More >>

• The Turin Horse Review

  published March 1, 2012

  Béla Tarr, the Hungarian director who became something like the patron saint of slow cinema with 1994's 450-minute... More >>

• Wanderlust Review

  published February 23, 2012

  "There's no one way to live our lives," hopes the displaced, adrift couple at the center of Wanderlust. Shopping between the prefab... More >>

• Act of Valor Review

  published February 23, 2012

  Act of Valor is, according to the opening titles, "based on real acts of valor," whatever that means. It stars real active-duty Navy... More >>

• Oscar-Nominated Bullhead and Michael at Cinefamily

  published February 16, 2012

  The clean, orderly home has a particular hold on the Austrian imagination — specifically the basement, the nation's subterranean... More >>

• This Means War Review

  published February 16, 2012

  Hostilities in This Means War are declared as two workmates compete for the affection of the same woman. The contested objective is... More >>

• The Innkeepers Review

  published February 2, 2012

  Ti West, the 34-year-old writer-director of The Innkeepers, has spent the past several years steadily toiling his way through the... More >>

• Haywire Review

  published January 19, 2012

  Haywire's plot is boilerplate triple-cross, cloak-and-dagger stuff — but the action choreography by director Steven Soderbergh... More >>