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World War Z: movie review

It begins with a traffic jam, one in which ex–U.N. investigator Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) and his family are stuck as they try to wind through Philadelphia’s streets. Then, out of the blue, the not-usual-for-morning-rush-hour oddities start up: Rude mot...

DCI 2013 Tour Premiere

Marching bands from Ohio, Massachusetts and elsewhere kick off the season in Akron, Ohio.

The Dark Knight Rises

Eight years after he took the blame for Harvey Dent's death and vanished into the night, Batman is forced out of his self-imposed exile by a cunning cat burglar and a merciless terrorist called Bane .

After Earth: movie review

How the mighty have fallen. We’re not just speaking of warrior-class father-son team Cypher and Kitai Raige (Will and Jaden Smith), the last survivors of a spaceship crash on a devastated, human-abandoned future Earth. We’re also talking about direct...

Before Midnight: movie review

There’s a twinge of heartache in seeing our actors age (or, defiantly, not age) onscreen. To watch Jeff Bridges pull out all the crusty stops in 2010’s True Grit is to mourn his golden god in Against All Odds (1984), washed away in the sea surf. Clin...

Carmen Met Summer Encore

Epic: movie review

An eccentric scientist (Jason Sudeikis, miscast) takes in his estranged teenage daughter (Amanda Seyfried), who comes to stay with him after the death of her mother. She’s convinced her old man’s theories about a race of tiny humanoid creatures who i...

Fast & Furious 6: movie review

We’re a long way from the grease-stained cred (such that it was) of this series’s 2001 originator, a movie with a lunkheaded charm about it. Now most of the stunts are digital and the pleasures are video-game-stupid: Cars pounce like panthers over de...

Iron Man 3: movie review

There’s little downtime in the life of a Marvel superhero—let’s hope these guys are at least getting bonuses or something. If you stuck around after the voluminous credits of last summer’s The Avengers, you saw the gang exhaustedly tucking into some...