ArtsBeat: Video: This Week's Movies, May 4
The New York Times film critics’ takes on “The Avengers,” “Last Call at the Oasis” and “First Position.”
May 4, 2012
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The New York Times film critics’ takes on “The Avengers,” “Last Call at the Oasis” and “First Position.”
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The New York Times film critics on “The Avengers,†“Last Call at the Oasis†and “First Position.â€
A look at reader favories from our Summer Movies cover feature.
A look at reader favories from our Summer Movies cover feature.
New York’s most prolific theater producer gets his curtain call in “Joe Papp in Five Acts,†a documentary that captures a genius in all his prickly brilliance.
If you’re new around here, this is how the script goes: I damn “The Avengers” with faint praise, observing that the (supposed) culmination of the long, laborious Marvel Comics movie franchise is a competent but pointless popcorn entertainment that’s being wildly overpraised simply for existing without being incoherent and terrible. Some readers sniff from behind their digital copies of the …
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A scene from the documentary “First Position,” about young contestants in a ballet competition.
It’s been a long time since there’s been as many resources put behind a new and unproven actor as we have in Haywire. In fact…