Hunter Lanier

Hunter Lanier is a movie critic, Zebra tamer, croquet champion, and a wanted man in three counties for loitering. He writes reviews at 24 words per second and watches TCM for the commercials. If your movie is anything like "Take the Money and Run," "The Godfather," "The Man with the Golden Arm," "The Graduate," or "One, Two, Three," Hunter may or may not like your movie.

Vice, written and directed by Adam McKay, plays straight to the cable-news...

In the eternal balancing act between style and substance, style is often...