‘Magic Mike’ movie review: Channing Tatum in Steven Soderbergh stripper drama
Magic Mike, boosted by an all-star cast, is just about the best film about male strippers imaginable
Magic Mike, boosted by an all-star cast, is just about the best film about male strippers imaginable
Moonrise Kingdom might be Wes Anderson’s most accessible film to date, and he paints this story with love and care
Ice Age: Continental Drift, the fourth feature in the Ice Age series, features more of the same family-oriented fun
The Butcher of Prague is an admirable but ultimately underwhelming film version of the Heydrich assassination and Lidice massacre
Piranha 3DD (geddit?) represents precisely the kind of movie that its predecessor so successfully tore apart
What to Expect When You’re Expecting is the latest entry in the Valentine’s Day genre of ensemble romantic comedy
Stephan Elliott’s A Few Best Men attempts to push boundaries but its imagination is severely limited
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted is likely to appeal most to younger children and undemanding parents
Prometheus, director Ridley Scott’s prequel to Alien, is a masterful mixture of brainy sci-fi ideology and splatter movie schlock
Men in Black 3 represents a pleasant-enough diversion but little more after a decade-long absence from the series
2 Days in New York is writer-director-producer-star Julie Delpy’s follow-up to her agreeable 2007 comedy 2 Days in Paris
Snow White and the Huntsman is a joyless, oh-so-serious slog through the Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs fairy tale
Vendeta is a refreshingly old-fashioned revenge thriller that features the kind of no-nonsense filmmaking you don’t see any more
Obscurantist and His Lineage is an overwhelming, almost indecipherable deluge of religious, spiritual, and metaphysical gobbledygook
The Pirates! Band of Misfits is easily the best of 2012’s early crop of animated films, ribald fun on the open seas and in London
Lockout is expectedly ridiculous stuff that stretches credibility and then snaps it right off (just wait for the climactic skydiving sequence)
Get the Gringo is a welcome return to antihero form for Mel Gibson after atypical roles in Edge of Darkness and The Beaver
Urbanized looks at cities that have done or are doing right, but also ones that have done it wrong
The Dictator is expectedly crude, offensive, and often enough, laugh-out-loud funny
At least StreetDance 2 is mercifully short; under 80 minutes, minus credits. It’s also entirely insufficient.
Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows is pretty much a blast until an underwhelming monster mash climax
The Avengers brings together all of these characters – and more – for a superhero smash-up that sets a new standard for comic book movies
Truth in movie titling: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is, indeed, about fishing for salmon in Yemen
Alois Nebel was the Czech Republic’s official submission to the 2012 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film