REVIEW: Enjoyably Over-The-Top 'Breaking Dawn - Part 2' Lacks A Certain Je Ne Suck Quoi
Whether you're a devoted Twihard, an absolute hater, or someone who's still just completely bewildered by Stephenie…
REVIEW: Daniel Day-Lewis Brings Noble, Determined President To Life In Spielberg's Timely 'Lincoln'
The release of Lincoln, the new film from Steven Spielberg, is intended to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the days…
REVIEW: James Bond Is Reborn In Lavish, Fun & Relevant 'Skyfall'
In his half-century of cinematic existence, James Bond has been cast and recast, refined, reinvented and rebooted. He's been…
REVIEW: 'Flight' Soars Then Nosedives Despite Denzel Washington's Acting Aerobatics
Flight, the first non-motion-capture feature Cast Away and Forrest Gump filmmaker Robert Zemeckis has directed in over a decade…
REVIEW: Ambitious 'Cloud Atlas' Is By Turns Glorious, Moving ' and Ridiculous
As is often the peril with movies of giant ambition, Cloud Atlas walks a crooked line between the glorious and the ridiculous…
REVIEW: The Loneliest Planet, One Of The Year's Finest
Compact and athletic in their identical cargo pants, Alex (Gael García Bernal) and Nica (Hani Furstenberg) are almost the same…
REVIEW: Tyler Perry Isn't In Drag But He Is A Drag In 'Alex Cross'
It's a curious truth about Tyler Perry that, when not in drag and playing the outsized role of Madea, he's a recessive screen…
REVIEW: Familiar But Fun Paranormal Activity 4 A Fourth To Be Reckoned With
Because the Paranormal Activity movies are defined by their structure rather than by a visible monster or recurring lead…
REVIEW: More Fine Filmmaking (But Not Acting) From Ben Affleck In Argo
Argo is the story of a film that never existed, a Star Wars rip-off set in a sci-fi world with a conveniently Middle Eastern…
REVIEW: Gleefully Insane Seven Psychopaths Is Meta Movie Mayhem
While I hate to quibble over the details, Martin McDonagh's Seven Psychopaths really contains only six of the nutjobs promised…
REVIEW: Kitschy Taken 2 Ups The Xenophobia With Subpar Bad Dad Fantasy
Taken 2 grabs everything that was surprisingly enjoyable about the original film and batters it into the ground like... Liam…
REVIEW: Lee Daniels Delivers A Lurid, Jumbled Southern-Fried Sleaze Saga In 'The Paperboy'
The act of directing suggests, well, direction — that whether it comes together as planned or not, a filmmaker is pursuing a…
REVIEW: Maggie Gyllenhaal Is Shrill Heroine In School-Reform Propaganda Film, Won't Back Down…
There are few movies that make teaching look more quietly unappealing than Won't Back Down, which is quite an achievement, given…
REVIEW: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Confronts His Future In Smart, Soulful Looper
Missing mothers, lost wives, abusive and indifferent father substitutes — Looper may be a movie powered by time travel, but its…
REVIEW: Adams Steals Trouble With The Curve From Eastwood ' But Baseball Drama Chokes In Final…
Clint Eastwood is not the type of movie star to disappear into a role, especially not at this point in his career. He's more icon…