In Theaters: Brooklyn's Finest
A trip to grimmest copland with a fine pedigree and long tradition on both the big and small screen standing behind it, in a way Brooklyn's Finest falls prey to the…
In Theaters: Alice in Wonderland
Two children's classics whose hallucinatory mixture of exhilaration and dread has perhaps been most compellingly evinced by a Jefferson Airplane song and a Tom Petty…
In Theaters: A Prophet
Director Jacques Audiard has said that the character of Malik, the turbulent moral center of A Prophet, is not, as the title implies, the voice of God, but a simple…
In Theaters: Cop Out
Straining to give limp quotation the luster of homage, Kevin Smith's Cop Out pays tribute mostly to the director's rich heritage of self-amusement. His chosen genre -…
In Theaters: The Ghost Writer
An efficient suite in the mode of Hitchcock's pure cinema, the opening of The Ghost Writer, Roman Polanski's eminently suave town-car thriller, relaxes willing viewers…
In Theaters: Shutter Island
"You act like insanity is catching," Leonardo DiCaprio's Federal Marshal cracks in the opening minutes of Shutter Island, Martin Scorsese's swollen Valentine to B-movie…
In Theaters: The Wolfman
The Wolfman, Joe Johnston's gallingly leaden remake of the 1941 Lon Chaney Jr. classic, both lives and dies by its transformations. Its most obvious selling point is…
In Theaters: Valentine's Day
As this season's gift to the lovelorn, Valentine's Day rates somewhere between a pink carnation from the boss and the off-label SweetTarts left out in the break room…
In Theaters: Red Riding Trilogy
Built from the brittle bones of British novelist David Peace's quartet of novels, the Red Riding Trilogy reimagines a bleak and bloody period in Northern England's…
In Theaters: Dear John
Another in the increasingly inbred line of romantic melodramas to spring from the fertile loins of Nicholas Sparks, Dear John is as inspired as its title, a reference…
In Theaters: When in Rome
Not as bad you'd think and yet nowhere near what could be called any good, When in Rome is a romantic comedy without much to offer in the way of character, conflict, or…
In Theaters: Edge of Darkness
If it seems like the nuclear weapons scandal powering the densely plotted narrative of Edge of Darkness has been airlifted straight out of the '80s, it's because it kind…
In Theaters: Legion
Scott Stewart deserves credit for making Legion into a film that could be described as both a blasphemer's delight and a right wing Christian propaganda flick, but I…
In Theaters: Extraordinary Measures
Despite a decent cast and a powerful story, Extraordinary Measures plays with the soothing blandness of an Oxygen movie-of-the-week. Almost completely -- even strangely…
In Theaters: The Book of Eli
The Book of Eli presents an interesting case for the post-apocalyptic film -- a microgenre most recently bolstered by films like Children of Men, I Am Legend and The…
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