Will Leitch's posts

1. Lord help me, I couldn't have been happier coming out of Pacific Rim. It's not a great movie—it's just barely a…

Early in the morning on New Year's Day 2009, a 22-year-old man named Oscar Grant, on his way home with his…

Shockingly, we are more than halfway through 2013. As always, the best, most "prestigious" movies won't be released…

I just moved halfway across the country and didn't get a chance to see The Lone Ranger. I figured it was probably…

1. At this point, the zombie movie has gone through just about every permutation possible, from its low-budget…

1. On the surface, it seems obvious why you'd attempt to reboot the Superman franchise using the Christopher…

The best part about Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing is that it's not particularly proud of itself for adapting…

1. The Hangover, Part III is better than Part II, but not by much, and really only because it didn't just recycle,…

Did you want to learn that Jesse and Celine, the couple we fell in love with as they fell in love with each other in…

1. I've never gotten the sense that J.J. Abrams really cares all that much about the Star Trek franchise. Abrams has…

1. I'm confused at to what Baz Luhrmann, the crazy over-the-top director of Moulin Rouge and Romeo + Juliet, would…

1. Other than that terrible Todd Phillips-Zach Galifianakis comedy Due Date, Robert Downey Jr. hasn't played a…

Mud is a movie I don't get, and I don't think the problem is necessarily with me.

1. You can make all the jokes you want about Terrence Malick's movies, particularly these last two later-era ones,…

1. A good rule of thumb: If you are holding a book in your hands and you notice that someone has gone to the trouble…

To make a list of things I do not understand about Shane Carruth's Upstream Color would be to simply list everything…

GI Joe: Retaliation is pretty bad. You don't need me to tell you that. It's not completely horrible: There's a cool…

1. Steve Carell, leading man, is a lot funnier when he's not trying to be funny. He tends to work better in…

1. Spring Breakers is trashy: I'm not telling you something you don't know here. It's self-consciously trashy, but…

1. The notion of doing a prequel to The Wizard of Oz focused on Oz himself isn't an inherently terrible idea. The…