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Review: Katy Perry: Part of Me

A familiar saga
Lady Gaga's every arch move seems designed to be parsed by graduate students convinced that mainstream America is scandalized every time someone plays with — all together now — gender.

By: CHARLES TAYLOR | July 03, 2012

Review: Never Stand Still

A-list choreographers
A multitude of A-list choreographers speak their piece to the camera — Merce Cunningham, Judith Jamison, Mark Morris — as they gather for the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Becket, Mass.

By: CASSANDRA LANDRY | June 26, 2012

Review: People Like Us

Alex Kurtzman's creepy family melodrama
I, for one, would not want to be a person like the characters in Alex Kurtzman's creepy family melodrama.

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 28, 2012

Review: A Cat In Paris

Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol's French cartoon
Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol's nicely hand-drawn and colored French cartoon was a 2012 Academy Award nomination for best animated film.

By: GERALD PEARY | June 26, 2012

Review: Ted

Dumbing down Family Guy 's Brian for the big screen
Seth MacFarlane is making his big-screen debut with yet another dope and his talking teddy bear.

By: ANN LEWINSON | June 29, 2012

Review: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Bekmambetov's adaptation of the goofy bestseller
With a title like this, don't expect a PBS documentary.

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 22, 2012

Review: 5 Broken Cameras

Recording turmoil
Emad Burnat, a Palestinian villager, goes through five different cameras from 2005 to 2010, each one broken when the Israeli military or police assault him as he tries to record the ongoing turmoil.

By: PEG ALOI | June 19, 2012

Review: Brave

Merely good
Disappointing on a story level, this fable in the feminist Disney Princess mold (unremarkably so) signals problems from the start.

By: BRETT MICHEL | June 21, 2012

Review: Pink Ribbons, Inc.

Documenting hypocrisy in the breast-cancer awareness movement
Near the end of this documentary a woman calls the pink ribbon of breast cancer-awareness a "made in China" tag.

By: MILES BOWE | June 19, 2012

Review: Portrait of Wally

Institutionalized extortion
Somewhere in the slog of Andrew Shea's Portrait of Wally is a devastating story of institutionalized extortion and its victims.

By: MILES HOWARD | June 19, 2012

Review: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

Doomsday scenarios
Nearly 15 years after Don McKellar ended it all in Last Night (1998), the world endures, and so does the question: how will doomsday affect one's love life?

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 19, 2012

Review: That's My Boy

'90s pop culture
Director Sean Anders does nothing to mop up this gross-out comedy mess about a middle-school boy who gets molested by his teacher and ends up raising their love child — with disastrous results.

By: MONICA CASTILLO | June 21, 2012

Review: The Matchmaker

Cultural limits
Arik (Tuval Shafir), a restless Israeli teenager, struggles against the cultural limits of Haifa in 1968 — it's a provincial prism untouched by rock music or the sexual revolution.

By: MILES HOWARD | June 19, 2012

Review: Your Sister's Sister

Mumbled recriminations
Seattle slacker Jack (Mark Duplass) has been beating himself up over his brother's death for a year, so his brother's ex-girlfriend (Emily Blunt) — who is also Jack's best friend— offers him her father's cabin in the San Juan Islands for the weekend to clear his head.

By: ANN LEWINSON | June 21, 2012

Review: Whore's Glory

Painted ladies
Austrian documentarian Michael Glawogger takes his camera into three pitiable spots where there is open prostitution, and where painted ladies, desperate for a living wage, service the most craven clientele.

By: GERALD PEARY | June 12, 2012

Review: Cape Spin: An American Power Struggle

The story of the Cape Wind clean-energy project
When you've got the Kennedys and the Koch brothers on the same side of an issue, it's hard to know what to think.

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 13, 2012

Review: Lola Versus

Bottoming out
Will Greta Gerwig ever be in another film in which she doesn't wear ugly underwear? Will there ever be a movie about heartbroken women where they don't find consolation in food?

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 14, 2012

Review: Safety Not Guaranteed

An act of nostalgia
For a generation weary of Zooey Deschanel's manic pixie and of staring down a future of student loans and dreary internships, Aubrey Plaza, the deadpan alt-comic who could have stepped out of the pages of Ghost World, may be the next dream girl.

By: ANN LEWINSON | June 14, 2012

Review: Rock of Ages

Soft mock
In retrospect, 1987, the year in which this adaptation of Chris D'Arienzo's hit Broadway show is set, might have been the moment that pop culture shit the bed.

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 15, 2012

Review: Prometheus

Ridley Scott's monumental and busy return
The best films in the Alien series, Ridley Scott's original and James Cameron's pluralized follow-up, didn't bother much with pondering the meaning of it all. The only film that did so, Alien 3 , is the worst.

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 07, 2012

Review: Bel Ami

The film adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's 1885 novel
The title is the term of endearment given to a charming young reporter by a series of influential Parisian women.

By: BETSY SHERMAN | June 05, 2012

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