Here’s a new comedy from Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody, the writer/director duo behind ‘Juno’. But don’t go expecting another happy, warm hug of a movie: YOUNG ADULT is much less of a charmer, trailing a juicy waft of sourness behind it. Charlize Theron gives her best performance in years; she’s properly funny (who knew?) as Mavis Gary, a train-wreck who crashes into her hometown to reclaim her high-school sweetheart, Buddy. What, Buddy’s happily married? Devoted to his new baby? Like Mavis gives a damn. She’s angry, self-obsessed, immature, stalkerish, possibly alcoholic… and we’re kinda gunning for her.
Other new stuff this week
TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (2011)
MUPPETS, THE (2011)
FORBIDDEN LEGEND, THE: SEX & CHOPSTICKS 1&2 (2008)
WOMEN ON THE 6TH FLOOR, THE (2010)
ON THE ECSTASY OF SKI-FLYING (2008)
SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER (2003)
A SEPARATION (2011)
FRY'S PLANET WORD (2011)
COLORADO TERRITORY (1949)
GREED (1924)
WAYS OF SEEING (1972)
