REVIEW: Josh Lucas Moors Himself in Grief In Clunky Hide Away
Filmmaker Chris Eyre made his name with his 1998 debut Smoke Signals, a delicate indie adapted from a short story by Sherman…
REVIEW: High School Makes Getting High Look Less Than Fun
High School has such a winning premise that you want to send everyone involved in making it back to the drawing board for a…
REVIEW: Is Chernobyl Diaries Offensive? No, It's Just Dumb
The premise of Chernobyl Diaries, in which a group of twentysomething tourists are menaced by malevolent beings while paying a…
REVIEW: Jennifer Connelly Brings the Crazy, Dustin Lance Black Brings the Mess in Virginia
Dustin Lance Black spoke of his conservative Mormon upbringing when he won the 2009 Oscar for best original screenplay for Milk…
REVIEW: Samuel L. Jackson Makes an Unconvincing Con Man in The Samaritan
A former grifter gets out of prison after serving 25 years for killing his partner in The Samaritan, and in a tale as old as time…
REVIEW: What to Expect From What to Expect When You're Expecting? A Bunch of Barren Gags
Hollywood, a humble request? I realize that abortion is has become too divisive a topic these days to drop into a mainstream…
REVIEW: Bromantically Whimsical A Bag of Hammers Gets By on Scruffy Sweetness
What if The Sting's Henry Gondorff and Johnny Hooker could be your surrogate parents? And what if they were also SoCal slackers…
REVIEW: God Bless America Chokes to Death on Bobcat Goldthwait's Nihilism
Comedian-turned-director Bobcat Goldthwait has always displayed an incredibly dark sense of humor in his work behind the camera…
REVIEW: Amiable Cast Makes The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Worth a Visit
As mild, comforting and vaguely colonial as beans on toast, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel brings together some of Britain's…
REVIEW: Basic Message of Water-Shortage Doc Last Call at the Oasis? We're Screwed
If you're in the mood for something new to keep you up at night worrying (and who isn't?), Jessica Yu's new documentary Last Call…
REVIEW: Ambitious Five-Year Engagement Explores the Confusion of Couplehood in Grown-Up…
The Five-Year Engagement begins where a lot of movies would end, with a proposal. Tom (Jason Segel), a chef, is driving to a New…
REVIEW: To the Arctic 3D Highlights Enviro-Woes, Polar Bear Cubs in Dazzling IMAX
Before IMAX became a way to boost action sequences — Tom Cruise dangling from the tallest building in the world, the Joker's…
REVIEW: Think Like a Man a Rowdy, Charming Battle of the Sexes — With Steve Harvey
Like He's Just Not That Into You and What to Expect When You're Expecting, Think Like a Man is a film adapted from a book that…
REVIEW: Zac Efron Muscles Up in Disposable The Lucky One
Nicholas Sparks. The name alone conjures up images of a romantic connection leaping between two people like an electric current…
REVIEW: Lockout Makes for Some Highly Entertaining Galactic Debris
The sci-fi action flick Lockout, directed by first-timers James Mather and Stephen St. Leger from a script they wrote with Luc…