Movie Review

  • Movie Review The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 

    Old pros like Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, and Dev Patel jostle this sleepytime tea of a movie. 

    May 3, 2012 | 12:05am -

  • Movie Review A Little Bit Of Heaven 

    A cancer patient (Kate Hudson) falls in love with her doctor in a rom-com that doesn’t let terminal illness spoil the quirk.  

    May 3, 2012 | 12:04am -

  • Movie Review Death Of A Superhero 

    A 15-year-old deals with cancer by drawing up an invincible superhero. 

    May 3, 2012 | 12:03am -

  • Movie Review First Position 

    A Spellbound-style documentary follows young ballet dancers as they compete at the Youth America Grand Prix.  

    May 3, 2012 | 12:02am -

  • Movie Review Last Call At The Oasis 

    Jessica Yu’s activist doc about the water crisis thinks locally when it should globally. 

    May 3, 2012 | 12:01am -

  • Movie Review The Perfect Family 

    Warning: The title of this Kathleen Turner drama may be ironic.  

    May 3, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Movie Review The Avengers 

    The Marvel universe finally comes together in a big spectacle graced with a lightness of touch.  

    May 2, 2012 | 12:00pm -

  • Movie Review Safe

    Jason Statham can kick some ass. Just don't ask him to do much more than that.

    April 26, 2012 | 10:10pm -

  • Movie Review The Raven 

    John Cusack plays Edgar Allan Poe in a modern, Sherlock Holmes-like take on classic material. 

    April 26, 2012 | 12:12am -

  • Movie Review The Pirates! Band Of Misfits 

    The Aardman wizards enhance their hand-crafted animation with 3-D in this seafaring comic adventure.  

    April 26, 2012 | 12:11am -

  • Movie Review Sound Of My Voice 

    Coming out of the same Sundance as Martha Marcy May Marlene, this investigation into an otherworldly cult leader strikes a similar chord. 

    April 26, 2012 | 12:10am -

  • Movie Review Darling Companion 

    Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline, Dianne Wiest, and Richard Jenkins assemble for Lawrence Kasdan’s first film in nearly a decade. 

    April 26, 2012 | 12:09am -

  • Movie Review Payback 

    A Margaret Atwood essay on the many facets of debt gets a creative documentary explication.  

    April 26, 2012 | 12:08am -

  • Movie Review Whores’ Glory 

    The director of Workingman’s Death vividly surveys prostitution outposts in Thailand, Bangladesh, and Mexico.  

    April 26, 2012 | 12:07am -

  • Movie Review 96 Minutes

    21 Grams meets a far less talented filmmaking team in a multi-story thriller spinning off from a carjacking.  

    April 26, 2012 | 12:06am -

  • Movie Review Citizen Gangster 

    Scott Speedman gets the role of a lifetime as Canadian robber and folk hero Edwin Alonzo Boyd.  

    April 26, 2012 | 12:05am -

  • Movie Review Elles 

    Juliette Binoche plays a journalist for French Elle who gets invested in the racy story of student prostitutes.  

    April 26, 2012 | 12:04am -

  • Movie Review The Giant Mechanical Man

    Jenna Fischer trudges through this dire indie rom-com as a zoo worker who falls for a street performer. 

    April 26, 2012 | 12:03am -

  • Movie Review Headhunters

    An Oslo security company executive tries to steal a priceless work of art in this bloody, entertaining thriller. 

    April 26, 2012 | 12:02am -

  • Movie Review Warriors Of The Rainbow: Seediq Bale

    Japanese colonizers in the ‘30s square off against aboriginal Taiwanese in this historical action epic. 

    April 26, 2012 | 12:01am -

  • Movie Review Bernie

    Richard Linklater’s latest casts Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, and Matthew McConaughey as players in a bizarre true-crime tale. 

    April 26, 2012 | 12:00am -

  • Movie Review The Five-Year Engagement

    A charming new romantic comedy takes its time, just like its protagonists.

    April 25, 2012 | 3:00pm -

  • Movie Review The Lucky One

    Zac Efron plays a grizzled war veteran in the latest, totally plausible romantic drama from Nicholas Sparks.

    April 19, 2012 | 12:09am -

  • Movie Review Goodbye First Love

    Father Of My Children director Mia Hanson-Løve returns with a bittersweet, perceptive chronicle of teen romance.  

    April 19, 2012 | 12:08am -

  • Movie Review Think Like A Man

    A rom-com reworking of Steve Harvey’s relationship guide is fit neither for those from Mars nor Venus.

    April 19, 2012 | 12:07am -

  • Movie Review Marley

    The complicated musical and cultural legacy of the reggae icon gets a superficial profile, but at least it’s a start. 

    April 19, 2012 | 12:06am -

  • Movie Review Chimpanzee

    The latest Disneynature docu-adventure turns the story of an orphaned baby chimp into Bambi meets The Lion King. 

    April 19, 2012 | 12:05am -

  • Movie Review The Moth Diaries

    American Psycho director Mary Harron tries to bring a classic feel to yet another YA vampire story. 

    April 19, 2012 | 12:04am -

  • Movie Review The Day He Arrives

    Hong Sang-soo uses a concise, black-and-white framework to support another tale of filmmaking, drinking, and relationships. 

    April 19, 2012 | 12:03am -

  • Movie Review Oki's Movie

    Director Hong Sang-soo provides more variation on his pet themes through an innovative multi-part structure.

    April 19, 2012 | 12:02am -