Amy Adams

Man of Steel Is a Real Movie Trapped Inside an Overblown Blockbuster

To Actresses on the Brink of 40: Go Bad or Go Home

Playing evil is more fun than playing good anyway, right?

In Man of Steel, There's Greatness in the Superman Origin Story

You'll believe a man can fly -- and is mostly worth watching

Our 2012 Film Poll: Movie Critics Nationwide Pick the Year's Best

Toronto Film Festival 2012 Report: The Master, Spring Breakers and More

The Master Review: Paul Thomas Anderson Reteams With Philip Seymour Hoffman

Joaquin Phoenix Returns in Paul Thomas Anderson's Scientology-inspired The Master

There's something startlingly noncommittal about many of the initial reviews of The Master that leaked out following the impromptu screenings writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson organized in 70mm-equipped houses across the country, and later in response to the film's official bow at the Venice Film ... More >>

The Master's Master

Paul Thomas Anderson on his new 70 mm film

Fight Club: David O. Russell's boxing flick

Mark Wahlberg takes a beating as "Irish" Micky Ward

Top 10 Food Tumblrs: The World of Tom Selleck Sandwiches

Selleck Waterfall SandwichFeatured Sandwich: Kielbasa​ Tumblr is a blogging platform that bridges the gap between social networks like Twitter or Facebook, and a Word Press or Blogspot blog. It has yet to be utilized for a Presidential campaign or propagate any false celebrity death rumors, b ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Crazy On the Outside, Daybreakers, Leap Year

Also, Bitch Slap, Youth in Revolt and more

Cooking Lobsters With Water Grill's David LeFevre How To Boil One Alive, Properly

Lobsters come with their own iconography. Think Woody Allen chasing one around a kitchen in Annie Hall. Or, more recently, a squeamish Amy Adams in Julie & Julia. Sure, you boil them alive, but that's the way it's done, and they don't have any feelings anyway. Didn't Cobain write a song about that? ... More >>

A Chef's Take on Julie & Julia, by Susan Feniger

Scan courtesy Susan FenigerEveryone's in the kitchen with Julia​A Chef's Take on Julie & Julia, by Susan Feniger, chef-co-owner of Ciudad, Border Grill and Street: I'd like to say something right up front: I'm not a film critic, I'm not a writer, and I generally don't like movies about cooki ... More >>

Julie & Julia: In Praise of Half of Meryl Streep's Top-Chef Biopic

Nora Ephron captures the earthly delights found in Julia Child’s cookbook and autobiography

"Julie & Julia" Food Stylist Susan Spungen Explains the Secret to a Perfect Cheese Pull

In one particular scene from director Nora Ephron's new film "Julie & Julia," starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams, a discarded failure of an aspic gurgles up from the garbage disposal in Julie Powell's small borough kitchen. It is the first major failure in her attempt to cook and blog her way throu ... More >>

1961 WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR

Movie Reviews: Dance Flick, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Easy Virtue

Also, The Boys: The Sherman Brothers Story, Fados and more

Movie Reviews: Miss March, Race to Witch Mountain, Sunshine Cleaning

Also, The Cake Eaters, The Secrets and more

Doubt Wags the Finger of Moral Relativism

J’accuse!

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day: Incredible Shrinking Women

As "English" as tea and toast, this mainstreamed movie has its eye on a global market

Charlie Wilson’s War: Go, Mujahedeen, Go!

A collision of good intentions and unintended consequences

James Marsden: Low Profile and Loving It

That guy

Movie Reviews: Enchanted, August Rush, Hitman, Holly

Also This Christmas, What Would Jesus Buy? and more

Film Reviews: Daddy Day Camp, Stardust

Also this week's pick, 12:08 East of Bucharest

Film Reviews: Bratz, El Cantante, Hot Rod and more

Also, this week's picks, Laura Smiles and This is England

Film Reviews: Chalk, The Ex, 28 Weeks Later and Delta Farce

Film Reviews

Film Reviews

For the week of April 21-27

How Gay Will Oscar Go?

Handicapping who’ll win, who’ll lose, and who’ll just jerk off

2005 in Film

Notes on the pleasures of kiddie moviegoing and weeping into your stir-fry

Judging Amy

Heading south with Junebug’s rising young star

Looking Homeward