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Kung Fu Yoga is even sillier than its title
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 26, 2017 | 6:00am
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Behemoth finds poetry in China’s industrial badlands
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 25, 2017 | 3:00pm
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James Franco takes on the tricky role of an “ex-gay” activist in I Am Michael
By Noel Murray January 25, 2017 | 6:00am
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xXx: Return Of Xander Cage is gloriously dumb, just like its title
By Katie Rife January 20, 2017 | 5:00am
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The deliriously entertaining Split is M. Night Shyamalan gone wild
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 19, 2017 | 6:00am
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Michael Fassbender can’t make something fresh out of Trespass Against Us
By A.A. Dowd January 19, 2017 | 6:00am
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The Resurrection Of Gavin Stone can’t find humor in good faith
By Jesse Hassenger January 19, 2017 | 6:00am
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The gimmicky neo-noir Detour feels like a film school project
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 18, 2017 | 4:54pm
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Suction cups, prog rock, wolves: Staying Vertical’s beguiling oddities keep coming
By Mike D'Angelo January 18, 2017 | 6:00am
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For the Iranian teen girls of Starless Dreams, life behind bars sadly beats the alternative
By Noel Murray January 17, 2017 | 6:00am
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Jamie Foxx is a dirty cop in the lean, mean, and completely implausible Sleepless
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 13, 2017 | 8:15pm
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No, you seriously shouldn’t think about The Bye Bye Man—or see it, for that matter
By A.A. Dowd January 12, 2017 | 7:44pm
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The Son Of Joseph is a droll parable from one of film’s great eccentrics
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 12, 2017 | 6:00am
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A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks
By Jesse Hassenger January 12, 2017 | 6:00am
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The Crash is a poor man’s financial thriller
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 11, 2017 | 6:00am
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The only thing exciting about Alone In Berlin is the fact that it’s a true story
By Mike D'Angelo January 11, 2017 | 6:00am
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No one talks and everyone moves in the adventurous dance/cinema hybrid Ma
By Mike D'Angelo January 11, 2017 | 6:00am
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The Underworld franchise keeps sucking in Blood Wars
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 9, 2017 | 1:57pm
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The Jackie Chan wartime caper Railroad Tigers never builds up steam
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 5, 2017 | 6:00am
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Some prime Nic Cage overacting is just a distraction from Arsenal’s faults
By Jesse Hassenger January 5, 2017 | 6:00am
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The Ardennes is just another stroll down the mean streets of crime cinema
By Mike D'Angelo January 5, 2017 | 6:00am
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Two lovers scratch the six-year itch in the insightful but undercooked Between Us
By A.A. Dowd January 5, 2017 | 6:00am
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Matthew McConaughey becomes both a rich and a poor man in Gold
By Jesse Hassenger December 30, 2016 | 6:00am
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Ben Affleck gets serious about his pulp fiction in Live By Night
By Jesse Hassenger December 27, 2016 | 4:46pm
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Adam Driver mellows out in Jim Jarmusch’s beautiful ode to ordinary living, Paterson
By A.A. Dowd December 21, 2016 | 6:00am
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Passengers strains the considerable charms of Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence
By Katie Rife December 20, 2016 | 12:15pm
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Martin Scorsese finally gets his solemn, powerful Silence off the ground
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 20, 2016 | 6:00am
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Toni Erdmann is the 3-hour, achingly sad prankster comedy of the year
By Mike D'Angelo December 20, 2016 | 6:00am
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Good performances can’t blast Hidden Figures out of prestige convention
By Jesse Hassenger December 20, 2016 | 6:00am
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Patriots Day turns the Boston Marathon bombing into a mostly gripping procedural
By Benjamin Mercer December 20, 2016 | 6:00am
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Mike Mills writes more memoir-in-montage with the intoxicating 20th Century Women
By A.A. Dowd December 20, 2016 | 6:00am
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What the hell are Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard doing in Assassin’s Creed?
By Jesse Hassenger December 19, 2016 | 8:00pm
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Ken Loach overdoes the misery in the final stretch of his Cannes-winning I, Daniel Blake
By Mike D'Angelo December 19, 2016 | 6:00am
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Denzel Washington shines in an inconsistent adaptation of August Wilson’s classic Fences
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 19, 2016 | 6:00am
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Fairy tales and family tragedy converge in the kid-friendly melodrama A Monster Calls
By Noel Murray December 19, 2016 | 6:00am
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The animated karaoke bash Sing aims for cute but lands on irritating
By Jesse Hassenger December 19, 2016 | 6:00am
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“Why Him?” Bryan Cranston asks of James Franco in this sporadically funny hackwork
By Jesse Hassenger December 19, 2016 | 6:00am
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Trollhunter follow-up The Autopsy Of Jane Doe is pretty, but a little stiff
By Katie Rife December 16, 2016 | 6:00am
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Pedro Almodóvar directs his new melodrama, Julieta, like a tense thriller
By Mike D'Angelo December 16, 2016 | 6:00am
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Will Smith goes glum for the twisty treacle of Collateral Beauty
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 15, 2016 | 6:00am
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Neruda is possibly even bolder than Pablo Larraín’s other 2016 biopic, Jackie
By Mike D'Angelo December 15, 2016 | 6:00am
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The Bad Kids spends time with troubled teens who fall through the cracks
By Noel Murray December 15, 2016 | 6:00am
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The year’s second Obama origin story, Barry, goes deeper into the president’s past
By A.A. Dowd December 14, 2016 | 6:00am
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Rogue One is an adventure to Star Wars’ dark side
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 13, 2016 | 6:36pm
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This magical melodrama has Two Lovers And A Bear, and not much else
By Mike D'Angelo December 12, 2016 | 6:00am
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Michael Keaton shines in the fast-food business procedural of The Founder
By Jesse Hassenger December 9, 2016 | 6:00pm
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Contract To Kill isn’t just bad—it’s Steven Seagal bad
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 8, 2016 | 6:00am
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Tons of funny stars can’t make this Office Christmas Party worth attending
By A.A. Dowd December 8, 2016 | 6:00am
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Beyond The Gates grafts family drama onto a killer-board-game movie
By Katie Rife December 8, 2016 | 6:00am
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The glorious La La Land anchors its daydream dazzle to real life
By A.A. Dowd December 8, 2016 | 6:00am
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Burn Country builds off a true story, finding a strong message but weak drama
By Mike D'Angelo December 7, 2016 | 6:00am
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Michael Shannon and Imogen Poots are a good pair with nowhere to go in Frank & Lola
By Jesse Hassenger December 6, 2016 | 6:00am
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I Am Not Your Negro turns an abandoned James Baldwin book into a brilliant doc
By Noel Murray December 6, 2016 | 6:00am
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The half-baked horror of Incarnate would have worked better in comic-book form
By Katie Rife December 2, 2016 | 7:45pm
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Mia Hansen-Løve’s Things To Come finds the meaning of life in the little things
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 1, 2016 | 6:00am
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An overqualified Shia LaBeouf can’t rescue Man Down
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 1, 2016 | 6:00am
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Don’t be fooled by the artfulness: The Eyes Of My Mother is deeply fucked up
By A.A. Dowd December 1, 2016 | 6:00am
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Nick Cave’s One More Time With Feeling is an intimate but not invasive portrait of grief
By Sean O'Neal December 1, 2016 | 6:00am
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Natalie Portman reveals the artifice and the agony of Jackie in an arresting biopic
By A.A. Dowd December 1, 2016 | 6:00am
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The Duelist is a ludicrous revenge fantasy without the fun
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 30, 2016 | 6:00am
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Run The Tide won’t score Taylor Lautner the prestige his Twilight costars have earned
By Mike D'Angelo November 30, 2016 | 6:00am
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Old Stone struggles to make drama out of China’s insane auto-accident laws
By Mike D'Angelo November 29, 2016 | 6:00am
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Bobby Sands’ historic hunger strike gets a thorough, thoughtful documentary
By Noel Murray November 29, 2016 | 6:00am
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Mifune: The Last Samurai analyzes the universal appeal of a Japanese actor
By Noel Murray November 23, 2016 | 6:00am
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A dormant director finally returns with the intoxicatingly strange Evolution
By Mike D'Angelo November 23, 2016 | 6:00am
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Even with Jessica Chastain in the role, Miss Sloane is less cool than her movie thinks
By Jesse Hassenger November 23, 2016 | 6:00am
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Two actresses chafe against the industry (and each other) in the jagged Always Shine
By Mike D'Angelo November 23, 2016 | 6:00am
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Lion doesn’t quite make its true story roar
By Esther Zuckerman November 23, 2016 | 6:00am
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Bad Santa 2 lazily repackages an old Christmas present
By A.A. Dowd November 22, 2016 | 5:59pm
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50 years later, Au Hasard Balthazar remains an unconventional masterpiece
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 22, 2016 | 3:12pm
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Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard headline the rousingly old-fashioned war drama Allied
By A.A. Dowd November 22, 2016 | 6:00am
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Warren Beatty’s Rules Don’t Apply offers an odd tribute to the myth of Howard Hughes
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 22, 2016 | 6:00am
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Moana introduces yet another Disney Princess, but adds a bit of progress
By Jesse Hassenger November 21, 2016 | 6:00am
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Tom Ford frames stories within stories in the postmodern Nocturnal Animals
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 17, 2016 | 8:10pm
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Directorial debuts are rarely as confident, stylish, and devastating as Divines
By Mike D'Angelo November 17, 2016 | 6:00am
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For a smart, funny teen movie, go to The Edge Of Seventeen
By Jesse Hassenger November 17, 2016 | 6:00am
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The Harry Potter prequel Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them can’t find itself
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 17, 2016 | 6:00am
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If Whiplash were an uncritical portrait of a boxer, it would look like Bleed For This
By A.A. Dowd November 17, 2016 | 6:00am
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Casey Affleck has a hard homecoming in the masterful, moving Manchester By The Sea
By A.A. Dowd November 17, 2016 | 6:00am
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I Am Not Madame Bovary, the heroine of this uneven Chinese protest yarn insists
By Mike D'Angelo November 16, 2016 | 6:00am
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It’s man vs. allegorical reptile in Studio Ghibli’s stunning The Red Turtle
By Noel Murray November 16, 2016 | 6:00am
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Uncle Kent 2 is a weird, self-indulgent indie in-joke
By Noel Murray November 16, 2016 | 6:00am
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The clown from Slipknot dumbs RoboCop way, way down with Officer Downe
By Mike D'Angelo November 16, 2016 | 6:00am
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The lazy Life On The Line places John Travolta back on the grid
By Jesse Hassenger November 16, 2016 | 6:00am
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It’s a small eternity before Shut In delivers anything resembling a thrill
By Mike D'Angelo November 11, 2016 | 11:04pm
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Kevin James’ True Memoirs Of An International Assassin is a subpar spoof
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 11, 2016 | 8:05pm
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Paul Verhoeven is back with a vengeance with the corrosive Elle
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 10, 2016 | 6:35am
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Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is an uneven technical breakthrough
By Jesse Hassenger November 10, 2016 | 6:00am
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Neither the drama nor the horror of The Monster really works
By A.A. Dowd November 10, 2016 | 6:00am
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Even with ample charms, Almost Christmas stuffs itself on melodrama
By Jesse Hassenger November 10, 2016 | 6:00am
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The Love Witch paints the battle of the sexes with a gaudy Technicolor brush
By Katie Rife November 10, 2016 | 6:00am
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Arrival has arrived to probe your brain and abduct your heart
By A.A. Dowd November 10, 2016 | 6:00am
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In telling the USS Indianapolis’ story, Men Of Courage is out of its depth
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 8, 2016 | 6:00am
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Nic Cage goes after Bin Laden in the fitfully funny Army Of One
By Jesse Hassenger November 4, 2016 | 4:45pm
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Only the most bitter nihilists will think Trash Fire is funny
By Katie Rife November 3, 2016 | 3:13pm
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The Ivory Game needlessly crafts a thriller out of an advocacy doc
By Mike D'Angelo November 3, 2016 | 5:00am
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Paul Schrader’s Dog Eat Dog is an exercise in pulpy gratuitousness
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 3, 2016 | 5:00am
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Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge makes a gruesome case for non-violence
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 3, 2016 | 5:00am
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Loving is a crime in this undramatic dramatization of a famous court case
By A.A. Dowd November 3, 2016 | 5:00am
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Peter And The Farm profiles a lonely and disturbed soul
By Mike D'Angelo November 2, 2016 | 5:00am
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The effects in Doctor Strange will blow your mind, even if the story doesn’t
By A.A. Dowd November 2, 2016 | 5:00am
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Daisy Ridley narrates the uplifting adventures of The Eagle Huntress
By Esther Zuckerman November 1, 2016 | 3:50pm
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Trolls hides a profound message in a sickly sweet confection
By Gwen Ihnat October 31, 2016 | 5:00am
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I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House creeps by on spectacular mood
By A.A. Dowd October 27, 2016 | 5:00am
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By Sidney Lumet takes an uncritical stance on a departed icon’s career
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 27, 2016 | 5:00am
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Werner Herzog goes Into The Inferno, won’t shut up about it
By Mike D'Angelo October 27, 2016 | 5:00am
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Jim Jarmusch gives Iggy Pop the usual rock-doc treatment in Gimme Danger
By Mike D'Angelo October 27, 2016 | 5:00am
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Inferno tries to find the fun in a Dan Brown thriller
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 27, 2016 | 5:00am
