Less funny than her worst SNL sketch, Girl Most Likely strands Kristen Wiig in a dreadful, disingenuous city-vs.-suburbs comedy that mercilessly mocks New Jersey before turning around and celebrating its provincial trashiness over the hoity-toity snootiness of Manhattan. Fired from her job and dumped by her boyfriend, once-promising playwright Imogene…
The world is full of lackluster movies. But the world is not full of Helen Mirren in a Marlene Dietrich fedora, or Helen Mirren in full-tilt eveningwear disposing of a bothersome corpse in a marble bathroom, or Helen Mirren firing a massive rifle-type thingie while sprawled on a picnic blanket…
Nat Faxon and Jim Rash didn’t set out to make a comedy about divorce. Eight years ago, when the improv-comedians-turned-actors-turned-Oscar-winning-screenwriters started writing a coming-of-age script based on a particularly upsetting moment from Rash’s childhood, they just wanted a happy ending. Yet almost all of the characters in The Way, Way…
Last week, a great white shark was spotted off the coast of Key West. Last night, a giant storm left much of Miami under water. This morning, news broke that SyFy’s Twitter-famous TV movie Sharknado is getting a sequel. And it’s set in … New York? Really? See also: Forget…
Come December, Miami will have a new bayfront home for all things art. The long-awaited Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) will arrive around the time of Art Basel, but in the meantime, you can get a tease of what’s in store at a newly announced summertime film series. The Lights…
Darkness. That’s all we see as episode three, “What’s Eating Dexter Morgan,” starts up — darkness, and baby Harrison calling out “daddy, daddy.” Dexter gets worried as he follows what looks like a blood trail to the bathroom, only to find Harrison has eaten an entire box of cherry popsicles…
We’re not even halfway into the final season of Dexter yet, and it’s already looking like it’s going to be hard to say goodbye to our favorite serial killer. Fortunately, long after the show has met its (hopefully bloody) demise, fans can keep their memories alive with blood slides, just…
So you heard about a tropical storm with South Florida in its path, and you performed your annual hurricane ritual: stocking up on water and booze, filling your gas tank, making sure you have plenty to read. And then Chantal dissipated out in the Caribbean, and you thought you were…
If the great god of movies, whatever slippery Mount Olympus of money he resides on, decrees that summer is the time for larger-than-life 3-D blockbusters, Guillermo del Toro may as well make one. His Pacific Rim is summer entertainment with a pulse. The effects are so overscaled and lavish as…
“You use big words to say simple things,” Augustine, an illiterate kitchen maid, says to the esteemed doctor treating her for the distinctly female malady “hysteria.” This would be a show of boilerplate feistiness in most films, but in writer-director Alice Winocour’s Augustine, it stands as a subtler, more complex…
A good talker can be a mixed blessing for the documentary biographer. Tabloid’s Joyce McKinney, for instance, the beauty queen alleged to have abducted and raped a Mormon missionary in the 1970s, proved hypnotically chatty. Every nutty tangent and girlish inflection, as presented by Errol Morris, contributed to a portrait…
We spend so much time complaining about the current state of mainstream grown-up cinema — all comic books, sequels, and comic book sequels — we sometimes forget how formulaic animation has also become, relying too heavily on rapidly outdated pop-culture gags and hoary “be true to yourself” storylines. For every…
Watching the documentary Hey Bartender is like spending a night at a good bar: It’s fun, easygoing, and lasts just a little longer than it should. And the conversation, while delightful in the moment, often seems banal the next morning. It’s clear that director Douglas Tirola is passionate about cocktails…
Michael Cera is growing up. It may be hard to picture, as at one point it seemed as if baby-faced Cera could forever play the awkward teenage boy next door. But in the last few months, other than a recent return to his Arrested Development roots, Cera has left behind…
With an offhand precision that suggests he might prove one of his generation’s major actors, Michael Cera lays bare two specific human weaknesses in writer-director Sebastián Silva’s altered-states/group-dynamics road drama Crystal Fairy—weaknesses you’ll likely recognize from life rather than from other movies. The first is the pushy, wheedling neediness of…
Nicholas Winton, a comfortable young banker in 1930s England, could have, like most of his countrymen before World War II, carried on with his life. Instead, made aware of Hitler’s movements, he took it upon himself to whisk as many Jewish children as possible out of Czechoslovakia, to be fostered…
Not lazy in the sense that he has no ambition, or doesn’t want to work hard to maintain his status as America’s big-screen comedy king. But in the sense that Sandler has built an empire by doing the same things with the same people, over and over again. That sameness,…
Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story, a documentary by Miami-based filmmaker Brad Bernstein, opens in theaters across the country this summer. But Miami got to see the film months in advance when it screened at the Miami International Film Festival earlier this year. We spoke to Bernstein…
Adventures of Christopher Bosh in the Multiverse? It’s OK, I guess. I mean, if you’re into a ton of color and evil internet queens and the idea of a multidimensional space prince playing for the Miami Heat. But what if you’re looking for something a little more serious, a little…
It was like Flashback Friday on last night’s episode of Dexter. “Every Silver Lining” opened with an old video of a handsomely dressed Harry talking to a hidden-from-view Dr. Vogel. Harry recounts the first time he snuck Dexter onto a crime scene. Dexter was only ten years old when he…
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