Molly Segal

The Campaign, directed by Jay Roach (Austin Powers, Meet the Parents), takes American politics to the gutter, reaping a flawed system for comedic profit. An undefeated North Carolina congressman, Cam Brady (Will Ferrell), comes up against Marty Huggins (Zach Galifianakis), a puppet of two CEOs looking to exploit a lucrative opportunity, and the battle ensues. […]

For those who haven’t recently watched The Bourne trilogy, it would be a bit of a leap to watch Tony Gilroy’s The Bourne Legacy. Aaron Cross (Jeremy Brenner—he’s no Matt Damon) has a parallel story to Bourne’s (who’s mentioned, but isn’t a character), fleeing assassination by his own bosses at the CIA. Marta Shearing (Rachel […]

Director Benh Zeitlin’s first feature, an adaptation of Lucy Alibar’s one act play, Juicy and Delicious, turns fantasy into reality. We see the world through six-year-old Hushpuppy’s (the captivating Quvenzhané Wallis) eyes, a tenacious girl who lives in the “Bathtub,” an area below a levee in the southern Delta, with her dying father, Wink (Dwight […]

{image-1] Christopher Nolan’s third Batman installment is a fitting addition to its predecessors with its dark plot and aesthetic, picking up where the last left off. Gotham city’s elite are under threat by a “mercenary,” Bane (Tom Hardy)—like an Occupy Gotham, only the 99% forced into an uprising by a tyrant. Of course, Bruce Wayne […]

When you’re trying to endear an audience, soundtracks and montages can detract, not enhance, from the audience’s relationship to the characters on screen, as is the case in The Intouchables, by French writer-director duo Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, and based on a true story. Driss (Omar Sy), a Senegalese man from the projects, is […]

Four stories: all set in Rome and all loosely about celebrity—that, along with a kitschy aesthetic, is all that unites Woody Allen’s latest, To Rome With Love. While funny, some jokes run too long—for example, Leopoldo (Roberto Benigni), an ordinary man, wakes up one day, inexplicably famous (a cute shtick, overworked). The strongest story is […]

Katy Perry’s Part of Me goes about as deep as her costumes, keeping things sparkly and bright. We follow Perry on her world tour for a year, flitting back and forth through her past—her rise to fame from a religious family, her struggles staying signed to a record label—to her present—onstage spectacles and gushy meet […]

Director Colin Trevorrow’s and writer Derek Connolly’s debut feature-length movie is a quirky comedy about a writer for Seattle Magazine, Jeff (Jake M. Johnson) and two interns, Darius (Aubrey Plaza) and Arnau (Karan Soni), who investigate the story behind a classified ad looking for a partner with whom to travel back in time. Darius successfully […]

Take This Waltz, written and directed by Sarah Polley (Away From Her), is a peek at what it’s like to be a confused 28-year-old. Margot (Michelle Williams), married to Lou (Seth Rogen), falls in love with her neighbour, Daniel (Luke Kirby), shortly before her fifth wedding anniversary. Margot is a complex and endearing character, who […]

Magic Mike is an insider look at the lives of male strippers in Florida. (Apparently Magic Mike is loosely based on Tatum’s own early career—so clearly his talents lie elsewhere than acting.) For a movie about buff men de-robing and gyrating, it’s exceedingly boring with minimal plot development. Mike takes a 19-year-old stripper-in-training, Adam the […]