With more and more consumers needing to be told where to eat, what to buy, and the best place to be jailed, businesses see a legitimate reason to outsource illegitimate, positive reviews of their products and services. The stakes are high! One Craigslist ad asking jobseekers (AKA everyone) to "Write Yelp Reviews" is looking for people who "have an active Yelp account and would like to make very easy money." You mean, we can't trust everything we read on the internet? more ›

Tea partying libertarians unite! Ayn Rand's Objectivist tome has made it to the big screen, at long last, and as a trilogy. In 1991 the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club ranked the 1957 bestselling novel as the 2nd most influential book ever, the Bible came in 1st place. So how will the movie live up to the printed word? It's not lookin' so good. Part One is in theaters today (tax day!), and the reviews are out; here are some gems: more ›

The much troubled tale of mega-musical Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark got a bit of good news today. Though it isn't open to critics for review yet (and won't be for some time at this point) one seems to have slipped through the cracks: six-year-old Ada Grey saw a preview of the show and wrote up a re-piew on her website. And? She likes it! more ›

Peels, the cooler-than-thou Bowery restaurant from the team behind Freemans, gets a mixed review in the Times this week. Sam Sifton calls it "a two-story restaurant located at the axis of punk and prep, a Vampire Weekend house... The menu at Peels is vaguely Southern — fried chicken appears, along with shrimp and grits — but the South the restaurant invokes is really the one below Route 27 in Suffolk County, where identity is a matter of bank balance and there is no effective difference between artifice and fact. more ›

Click on the film stills for more details and reviews on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which include: Saw 3D, Wild Target, Monsters, Welcome to the Rileys, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, Jolene, Waste Land, Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields, The Kids Grow Up, Walkaway, Inspector Bellamy, Poltergeist and Psycho. more ›

Click on the movie stills for more on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which include The Town, Catfish, Easy A, Alpha and Omega, Never Let Me Go, Jack Goes Boating, Picture Me, Freebie, Kings of Pastry, The Girl, The Temptation of St. Tony, On the Bowery, and Gone With the Pope. more ›

"Fornino Park Slope is a throwback, the sort of restaurant that will appeal mostly to those who still think of Manhattan as 'the city,' and who rarely cross a river to get to work," says Sam Sifton in his one star review of chef Michael Ayoub's return to Park Slope. Despite its expansive menu, most critics have focused (unfavorably) on Fornino's grilled pizza. Sifton doesn't dissent, loving pretty much everything until he comes to that controversial item, which "may be the restaurant’s weakest suit. The pies at Fornino Park Slope have thin crusts, in some cases almost shatteringly so, and they can lack the purity of flavor that characterizes the wood-oven versions at the Williamsburg location. Sometimes they don’t work at all. A plain margherita pie, for instance, sits flat and crackly on its plate, devoid of yeasty flavor; it felt in the mouth a little like a pizza made with saltines." more ›

Click on the film stills for more details on reviews of this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which include: The Last Exorcism, Takers, Mesrine: Killer Instinct, Centurion, The Milk of Sorrow, Daniel & Ana, Louis, Highwater, Change of Plan, Make-Out With Violence, Ida Lupino: Mother Directs, Warriors, and The Shining. more ›

Click on the film stills for more details on reviews of this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which include The Army of Crime, The Switch, Lottery Ticket, Mao's Last Dancer, Nanny McPhee, Piranha 3D, Soul Kitchen, Hiding Divya, The Tillman Story, Blue Velvet and an Eric Rohmer retrospective. more ›

Click on the film stills for more details and reviews of this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which include The Other Guys, Middle Men, Cairo Time, The Disappearance of Alice Creed, Lebanon, Step Up, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Twelve, Shaun of the Dead, and Taxi Driver. more ›

Click on the film stills above for more details and reviews on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which include: Dinner for Schmucks, Get Low, Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, Charlie St. Cloud, Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel, The Concert, The Dry Land, The Extra Man, and All About Evil. more ›

Click on the film stills above for more details and reviews on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which include: Salt, Countdown To Zero, Life During Wartime, Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, Farewell, Mugabe and the White African, Ramona and Beezus, Spoken Word, andCheech and Chong's Nice Dreams. more ›

Click on the film stills above for more details and reviews on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which include Inception, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno, Kisses, Standing Ovation, We Don't Care About Music Anyway, Wet Hot American Summer, andEl Topo more ›

Click on the film stills above for more details and reviews on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which include Predators, The Kids Are Alright, Around a Small Mountain, Despicable Me, The Girl Who Played with Fire, Grease, Racing Dreams, La Cuerda Floja, Winnebago Man, and Pink Flamingos. more ›