“Frankenweenie” Movie Review: The Tim Burton You Liked Is Back

Weddings make such bitchin’ film scenarios because the stakes are believably high: If anything goes wrong, social opprobrium, the loss of your beloved, or both can ensue, right in front of your disdainful parents, the clergy, and probably Vince Vaughn or somebody. Directors have placed every obvious symbol of holy…

You don’t always need to know the specific circumstances that precede the events of a postapocalyptic film, but the unexplained, history-ending catastrophe in Douglas Aarniokoski’s The Day precipitated some pretty contradictory conditions on the ground. Apparently, there is no food? Except that the film’s healthy-looking group of survivors trudges through…

For three months in 2010, Serbian-born performance artist Marina Abramovic sat in a chair in a gallery at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and directed her full, silent attention toward individual visitors seated across from her, seven hours a day, six days a week, without eating or drinking. Stillness…

The Amazing Spider-Man, an inexcusably good reboot from director Marc Webb, celebrates the heartwarming arachno-genetic bar mitzvah in which a boy becomes a spider and a spider becomes a man, a rite of passage last observed in Sam Raimi’s uneven but often pretty great trilogy in the ’00s. And there’s…