The Hangover
Now that “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” has gone from municipal marketing slogan to national organizing principle, the success of this is best understood not as a tribute to its virtue as comedic romp but rather to its power as allegory–and prophecy. Moral hazard? It is as nothing compared to the salvific [...]

The Boat That Rocked AKA Pirate Radio
No one expects realism from Richard Curtis, so it would be otiose to complain that pirate radio wasn’t like this, and neither was England. (No, I wasn’t there, but neither was he.) More to the point: this movie is both trite and interminable, its whimsy enervated and its wit [...]