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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...

Man of Steel: movie review

“You’ll believe a man can fly,” ads for 1978’s still-majestic Superman promised. Oy, to have such problems: These days, I’d settle for a director who could crack wise once in a while. Zack Snyder’s dull-as-dirt Man of Steel (the second reboot in seve...

Star Trek Into Darkness: movie review

Beyond its candy-colored science-fiction swashbuckling, what was the 1960s Star Trek television series if not a comment on, and counterbalance to, some very troubled times? The show’s racially mixed crew and explore-strange-new-worlds wonderment gave...

The Great Gatsby: movie review

The purists have had their knives sharpened for months, and now that Baz Luhrmann’s 3-D adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s canonical novel is finally here, the dissection and disembowelment can begin. This bombastic superproduction is certainly its...

The Internship: movie review

Thanks to his unvaryingly untucked insouciance, Vince Vaughn appears to be slouching toward mass ignominy. But in truth he’s been hustling of late, having taken up screenwriting and penned three recent snark-coms, including this dispiriting reteam wi...

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...