Christopher Orr

Christopher Orr is a senior editor and principal film critic at The Atlantic. He has written on movies for The New Republic, LA Weekly, Salon, The New York Sun, and others, and has worked as an editor for numerous publications.

The Movie Review: '(500) Days of Summer'

A gem of a film featuring sad pancakes, shrewd acts of cinematic theft, and giant Bahama-blue eyes More »

The Movie Review: 'Bruno'

Iz hilarioos, iz also mean to ze humans More »

The Movie Review: 'Public Enemies'

Johnny Depp is magnetic, but will you care when the lights come back on? More »

The Movie Review: 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'

As if the plot, acting, and length (two and a half hours!) weren't painful enough, they had to throw in a pair of jive-talking minstrel-show robots More »

The Movie Review: 'The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3'

Another exercise in emotional manipulation and cinematic Tourettism from Tony Scott More »

The Movie Review: 'The Girlfriend Experience'

Steven Soderbergh's newest micro-indie is all stunt, no soul More »

An Interview With Pete Docter

The director of 'Up' describes how Pixar is like an old-style Hollywood studio More »

The Movie Review: 'Up'

Pixar's most touching film yet manages to find wonder in grief More »

The Movie Review: 'Angels & Demons'

Help! Rome is in danger, and Tom Hanks is no longer wearing a mullet! More »

The Movie Review: 'Star Trek'

Is it a gas? Yes. Would Gene Roddenberry be proud? Maybe More »

The Movie Review: 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine'

Are Hugh Jackman's chiseled pecs enough to carry a lackluster 'X-Men' prequel? More »

The Movie Review: 'The Soloist'

Robert Downey, Jr. is great. The rest of the movie More »

The Movie Review: 'State of Play'

It's not bad. It just never should've been made. More »

The Movie Review: 'Observe and Report'

That latest addition to the mall cop canon is brutally fun. Perhaps too brutal. More »

The Movie Review: 'Sin Nombre' and 'Adventureland'

Two of the best movies of the year so far--one confounds expectations, while the other most certainly does not More »

The Movie Review: 'Monsters vs. Aliens'

Enjoyable enough if you're under 13, or have the taste of someone under 13 More »

The Movie Review: 'The Haunting in Connecticut'

There! Behind that door! I see something. It's a ... It's a ... TERRIBLE MOVIE! More »

The Movie Review: 'Duplicity'

So much promise. So little fun. More »

The Movie Review: 'Watchmen'

The famous comic was long believed to be unfilmable. I still agree. More »

The Movie Review: 'Two Lovers'

A welcome reminder that drama doesn't always have to be showy More »

The Biggest Story in Photos

Photos of Tornado Damage in Moore, Oklahoma

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