Looper (Rian Johnson, 2012)

Rian Johnson's Looper takes great pains to head off any in-depth discussion of the paradoxes and metaphysical nightmares associated wit...

Premium Rush (David Koepp, 2012)

David Koepp's Premium Rush  feels like the first posthumous tribute to the work of the late Tony Scott. Unintentional, of course, but be...

The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan, 2012)

Christopher Nolan's Batman  films have seriously, sometimes ponderously, probed the ramifications of superheroes in the "real"...

Inception

In Christopher Nolan's previous non- Batman film, The Prestige , Robert Angier says at one point that man's "reach exceeds his...

(500) Days of Summer

The music of The Smiths informs the tone of (500) Days of Summer , which is an appropriate choice. Like that band, the film is steeped in se...

Killshot

Every film the Weinstein brothers finance these days seems to reflect more on their downward spiral than it does the quality of the script i...