REVIEW: Millennial Cop Drama End of Watch Pits Tough, Likable Gyllenhaal & Peña Against Scary New…
It says something about how the LAPD tends to get portrayed in the movies that when Officers Brian Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) and…
REVIEW: Video-Game Sensibility Of Resident Evil: Retribution Makes For Unsettling But Unsatisfying…
It's a big week for the filmmaking Paul Andersons. Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master opened in a handful of cinemas in New York…
REVIEW: Phoenix, Hoffman Achieve Greatness While Doing Spiritual Battle In Marvelous The Master…
The Master, the new film from Paul Thomas Anderson, is the story of a spiritual duel — the battle for a soul — though only one of…
REVIEW: Hangover-esque Bachelorette Lets Mean Girls Behave Badly, But Apologizes For…
The course of equal opportunity raunchy comedy never did run smooth. Like Bridesmaids, Bachelorette is a foray into proving that…
REVIEW: The Possession Won't Give You Nightmares (Except About Divorce) But Is Nicely…
Are exorcisms culturally specific? The concept behind The Possession, a solid, Jewish-inflected B-movie riff on The Exorcist from…
REVIEW: Rollicking But Rough Lawless Creates Bloody, Intoxicating Prohibition-Era World
As rollicking and rough as a drive down a dirt road with no suspension, Lawless is a tale of three-bootlegging brothers…
REVIEW: The Apparition Cribs From Horror Classics, Is Still A Frightful Mess
Like the Paranormal Activity films and their cinematic ancestor Poltergeist, The Apparition takes place in what may be the least…
REVIEW: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Brings Sweaty Substantiality To Entertaining, Exasperating Premium Rush…
The indomitable bike messenger played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Premium Rush is named Wilee, as in Wile E. Coyote, the less…
REVIEW: Stallone & Co.'s Shtick Gets Old Fast In Hammy, Lazy The Expendables 2
To even describe The Expendables 2 as a movie seems to do both the medium and this strange, smirking effort a disservice. It…
REVIEW: Pattinson Is Quietly Marvelous In Cronenberg's Admirable, Feverish Cosmopolis
Easier to admire than to love, David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis is an amplified, feverish vision of the one percent as scarcely…
REVIEW: Despite Renner Power, Bourne Legacy Is A Slog Of A Sequel
The Bourne Legacy is a passable movie that has the peculiar misfortune of being part of a very successful, influential and…
REVIEW: Mild Goofball Laughs Of The Campaign No Match For Real Life Political Circus
The Campaign, the new comedy starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis, faces the challenge that troubles all political satires…
REVIEW: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do In Charming Celeste and Jesse Forever
Films like Celeste and Jesse Forever and The Five-Year Engagement feel like the start of some new subgenre — these unromantic…
REVIEW: Convoluted, Humorless Total Recall Lacks Fun of the Arnold Original
Yes, there is a triple-breasted hooker in Len Wiseman's Total Recall remake. If you happened to have missed the news posts and…
REVIEW: Ruby Sparks Blows Up Manic Pixie Dream Girl Myth
The title character of Ruby Sparks is a 26-year-old painter from Dayton, Ohio played by Zoe Kazan, who also wrote the film's…