Email Author Nick Pinkerton

2011 Stories by Nick Pinkerton

• A One-man Show of Mexican Cartel Horror Stories in El Sicario, Room 164

  published December 28, 2011

  To follow news of the Mexican cartel wars is to perpetually learn anew of the worst thing you have ever heard of: the village-size mass graves,... More >>

• Angels Crest

  published December 28, 2011

  Angels Crest doesn't have a single moment of feeling that punctures the "well-made" production, but what it lacks in palpable pain, it... More >>

• Some Nouns, Some Verbs, and 9/11: Milking Tragedy in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

  published December 21, 2011

  Director Stephen Daldry has never met a Big Theme he didn't like: After 2002's The Hours, a lugubrious women's-problem picture touching... More >>

• Boy Reporter, Back for New Adventures in Spielberg's Tintin

  published December 21, 2011

  Steven Spielberg's motion-captured, 3-D The Adventures of Tintin rolls together plot elements from three comic-book tales starring... More >>

• A Bond Makeover for Sherlock Holmes in Game of Shadows

  published December 14, 2011

  Although supplying boy's adventure thrills on the side, Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories are remarkable for how they make the... More >>

• Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel

  published December 14, 2011

  Bio-doc Corman's World examines the maverick legacy of Roger Corman, who made his reputation, such as it is, beginning in the '50s as... More >>

• Cook County

  published December 14, 2011

  One's tolerance for Cook County, a dysfunctional family melodrama set amid the chaos of a family home/meth lab in East Texas, is... More >>

• Sleepless Night Stories

  published December 14, 2011

  Jonas Mekas, 88-year-old Lithuanian-American poet, filmmaker, co-founder of Anthology Film Archives, and all-around proselytizer for the... More >>

• Man on a Mission

  published December 14, 2011

  For 15 years and now four sequels, Tom Cruise has pilgrimaged regularly to the Mission: Impossible franchise. Like a Hindu’s... More >>

• John Hurt Never Had Any Ambition, and Other Good Stuff

  published December 7, 2011

  One of the most accomplished (and most steadily-employed) English actors of his generation, John Hurt is known for his droll Quentin Crisp,... More >>

• Khodorkovsky

  published November 30, 2011

  "In all my human rights work, this is the first time I've defended a capitalist," says a Hague lawyer of the unlikeliest of political martyrs,... More >>

• Under Control

  published November 30, 2011

  Formalist documentary Under Control, Volker Sattel's portfolio of widescreen images taken at a series of Deutschland's nuclear power... More >>

• Outrage

  published November 30, 2011

  Takeshi Kitano's latest finds the actor-director returning to the familiar terrain of the yakuza film after recent farces (Achilles and the... More >>

• For Shame: Our 10 Favorite Swinging Dicks of Films Past

  published November 30, 2011

  The movies are full of bed-hopping men—think of Humphrey Bogart’s serial flirtations in The Big Sleep (1946) and Richard... More >>

• Caitlin Plays Herself

  published November 30, 2011

  Joe Swanberg’s films combine a Midwestern male’s fear of anything exceptional with pasty exhibitionism. They tend to feature... More >>

• Edward Yang, Urban Dweller

  published November 23, 2011

  Edwards Yang’s seventh and final feature, 2000’s Yi Yi, was the only to receive U.S. distribution—but even if Yi... More >>

• Arthur Christmas

  published November 23, 2011

  The animated, 3-D Arthur Christmas introduces three generations of St. Nick’s family: Weedy retired Grandsanta (voiced by Bill Nighy,... More >>

• Crazy Wisdom: The Life & Times of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

  published November 23, 2011

  Watching the succession of talking-head testimonials by former disciples of Chogyam Trungpa that comprise Crazy Wisdom: The Life & Times of... More >>

• Romantics Anonymous

  published November 23, 2011

  Romantics Anonymous is about the private comfort of sweets, and, as a romance that gently coddles the fantasies of shut-ins, it is the... More >>

• The Lie

  published November 16, 2011

  Lonnie (writer-director Joshua Leonard) and wife, Clover (Jess Weixler), are ex-idealists—we know this because she wears a Crass... More >>

• The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch

  published November 16, 2011

  The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch is based on a Belgian comic book originally begun in the 1970s. It must be that the film’s murky,... More >>

• In Heaven Underground: The Weissensee Jewish Cemetery

  published November 16, 2011

  Documentary In Heaven Underground offers a history of Jewish life in Berlin as seen through Weissensee, “the largest active Jewish... More >>

• Rid of Me

  published November 16, 2011

  A movie whose first five minutes contain a woman having menstrual blood rubbed on her face in a grocery store, a sub–Terrence Malick... More >>

• Happy Feet Two

  published November 16, 2011

  Mumble, the hoofing emperor penguin from the first Happy Feet (voiced again by Elijah Wood), now struggles to make a fatherly impression on... More >>

• The Greening of Whitney Brown

  published November 9, 2011

  Tween Whitney Brown (Sammi Hanratty) is at the top of the food chain at her Philadelphia prep school—class president, a date for the formal... More >>