Film, TV & Streaming

Despicable Me: Childish, funny 3-D delights

I Am Love: Tilda Swinton’s got to be free

Exit Through the Gift Shop: A doc about street art, sort of, brought to you by a graffiti ninja, kind of

Knight and Day: Tom Cruise, please stop talking

For the fifth time in a decade, Miami International Film Festival is in the market for a new festival director after choosing not to renew Tiziana Finzi’s contract. A festival insider from Italy with a reputation for discovering new cinema talent, she was hired in 2009. For 2010’s festival, she…

Toy Story 3: In its third installment, Pixar’s juggernaut turns morose

Please Give: Liberal guilt’s got soul

Mother and Child grapples with adoption but glosses over abortion

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time: Jake Gyllenhaal goes to the gym but can’t beef up this flick

First off, forgive us for not having the budget to upgrade this summer movie preview to 3-D. Rest assured, there are plenty of eye-popping (brain-numbing?) epics in the preview list that follows, but to our pleasure and surprise, there is a surplus of attention-worthy 2-D flicks too. Happy summer, movie…

Robin Hood rails against the tax-and-spend Nottingham elite

Iron Man 2 will lead to 3 and probably 4, but that doesn’t mean it’s good

Elm Street remake is no dream

Furry Vengeance is a movie with a message and not much else

The Losers: The aptly named film is not a winning comic-book thriller

Kick-Ass sets itself up as an unadulterated exposé of the teenaged mind. Tired of being mugged by high school thugs in a Manhattan that’s notably scummier than the real thing, our hero Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson, a hot young thing given a perm-and-glasses nerdover) wonders, in a hilariously put-on and…

The Runaways: Sex, drugs, and feminism

Date Night: Tina Fey and Steve Carell go lowbrow and chemistry-free

After.Life: Justin Long, Christina Ricci, and Liam Neeson star in a macabre gothic mystery begging to be left alone

Ajami: An Israeli Arab and Israeli Jew come together to make cross-cultural crime drama

The DeLorean is a Jacuzzi and the ’80s are back in Hot Tub Time Machine

A Prophet: The “French Scorsese” Jacques Audiard arrives with his ’70s-style gangster epic