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Like its title character, The Boy can’t live up to the real thing
By Katie Rife January 21, 2016 | 5:04pm
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The Romanian period piece Aferim! is one part Western, all parts pessimistic
By Mike D'Angelo January 21, 2016 | 4:00pm
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Synchronicity goes back to the future of several superior time-travel movies
By A.A. Dowd January 21, 2016 | 3:00pm
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Spoiler space: Martyrs
By Alex McLevy January 21, 2016 | 6:00am
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Oscar Isaac plays a serial killer in the bizarre, masturbatory Mojave
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 21, 2016 | 6:00am
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Monster Hunt is crude, exhausting, and Chinese cinema’s biggest hit
By Noel Murray January 21, 2016 | 6:00am
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The American remake of Martyrs changes the story but lessens the impact
By Alex McLevy January 21, 2016 | 6:00am
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Donnie Yen plays a kung fu grandmaster one more time in Ip Man 3
By Noel Murray January 21, 2016 | 6:00am
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Bleak Street gets only salaciousness out of a bizarre true story
By Mike D'Angelo January 19, 2016 | 6:00am
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The Italian neorealist classic Bitter Rice is still pulpy, sexy, and angry
By Noel Murray January 16, 2016 | 6:00am
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There’s more to Gilda than just an iconic hair flip by Rita Hayworth
By Mike D'Angelo January 16, 2016 | 6:00am
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Rob Schneider is somehow the least lazy part of Norm Of The North
By Katie Rife January 14, 2016 | 9:00pm
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Intruders never delivers on the promise of its home-invasion scenario
By Mike D'Angelo January 14, 2016 | 5:00pm
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The foreign-aid drama A Perfect Day is mostly just a string of anecdotes
By Mike D'Angelo January 14, 2016 | 4:00pm
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Band Of Robbers is a modern day Tom Sawyer with a Wes Anderson twist
By Noel Murray January 14, 2016 | 3:00pm
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Thanks to some first-rate action, Michael Bay’s 13 Hours only feels 6 hours long
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 14, 2016 | 6:00am
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French master Philippe Garrel goes light with In The Shadow Of Women
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 14, 2016 | 6:00am
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Moonwalkers wastes a kooky premise on an unfunny farce
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 14, 2016 | 6:00am
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Richard Gere makes charity chilling, at least for a stretch, in The Benefactor
By A.A. Dowd January 14, 2016 | 6:00am
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Kevin Hart and Ice Cube’s chemistry is squandered again in Ride Along 2
By Jesse Hassenger January 13, 2016 | 2:00pm
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, but their witty movie lives on
By Noel Murray January 13, 2016 | 6:00am
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The American Friend is a Tom Ripley movie that doesn’t need Tom Ripley
By Mike D'Angelo January 9, 2016 | 6:00am
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A Tarantino-approved classic gets vibrant new life in The Complete Lady Snowblood
By Katie Rife January 9, 2016 | 6:00am
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Natalie Dormer doesn’t cut it as a scream queen in The Forest
By Jesse Hassenger January 8, 2016 | 6:00am
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This tedious Crash-style drama will work like Anesthesia on viewers
By Mike D'Angelo January 7, 2016 | 6:00am
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Lamb puts an odd, moody spin on a child abduction scenario
By Noel Murray January 7, 2016 | 6:00am
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The Treasure is an offbeat deadpan gem
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 7, 2016 | 6:00am
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Diablo is an inane homage to better Westerns
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 7, 2016 | 6:00am
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Charlie Kaufman works his heady magic, this time with puppets, in Anomalisa
By Mike D'Angelo December 30, 2015 | 6:00am
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Orson Welles’ late masterpiece Chimes At Midnight is back on the big screen
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 30, 2015 | 6:00am
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The new Point Break is X-tremely dull
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 26, 2015 | 9:07pm
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Daddy’s Home doesn’t get enough laughs out of its Ferrell/Wahlberg reunion
By Jesse Hassenger December 24, 2015 | 6:00am
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The devastating 45 Years is as much a ghost story as a marriage drama
By A.A. Dowd December 21, 2015 | 6:00am
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Michael Moore wants to make America great again with Where To Invade Next
By Mike D'Angelo December 21, 2015 | 6:00am
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The Chipmunks go somewhere cheap for The Road Chip
By Jesse Hassenger December 17, 2015 | 6:00am
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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s chemistry gives Sisters a reason to exist
By Katie Rife December 17, 2015 | 6:00am
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The low-budget Bruce Willis actioner Extraction is enjoyably crummy
By Noel Murray December 17, 2015 | 6:00am
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The urgent Son Of Saul is a Holocaust drama like no other
By A.A. Dowd December 17, 2015 | 6:00am
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For better and worse, The Force Awakens returns Star Wars to its roots
By A.A. Dowd December 16, 2015 | 8:01am
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Quentin Tarantino gets theatrical in the 70mm Western The Hateful Eight
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 16, 2015 | 6:00am
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Joy reunites David O. Russell and Jennifer Lawrence for an unsatisfying character sketch
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 16, 2015 | 6:00am
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Will Smith’s confidence goes quiet in the workmanlike Concussion
By Jesse Hassenger December 16, 2015 | 6:00am
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The Revenant's spectacular highs deserve a more focused vision
By A.A. Dowd December 16, 2015 | 6:00am
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Russell Brand rants about the economy for 101 goddamn minutes in The Emperor’s New Clothes
By Noel Murray December 15, 2015 | 6:00am
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Burroughs: The Movie kicked off a short career by studying a long one
By Mike D'Angelo December 12, 2015 | 6:00am
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The Ridiculous 6 isn’t as awful as it looks, but it’s still a Sandler movie
By Jesse Hassenger December 11, 2015 | 8:56pm
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There’s more cynicism than surprise in the indie thriller Body
By A.A. Dowd December 10, 2015 | 6:00am
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From the creators of Napoleon Dynamite comes the skippable Don Verdean
By Mike D'Angelo December 10, 2015 | 6:00am
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In The Heart Of The Sea is ravishing and very corny
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 10, 2015 | 6:00am
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The Big Short builds a smart comedy out of the 2008 mortgage crisis
By Jesse Hassenger December 10, 2015 | 6:00am
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Speedy is a good Harold Lloyd comedy, a great peek into New York’s past
By Mike D'Angelo December 9, 2015 | 4:00pm
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Frank Capra depicted America as a happy madhouse in You Can’t Take It With You
By Noel Murray December 9, 2015 | 6:00am
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Stinking Heaven’s primitive look is more interesting than its improvised drama
By Mike D'Angelo December 8, 2015 | 6:00am
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Almost There is richer, more troubling than the average outsider-artist doc
By Benjamin Mercer December 8, 2015 | 6:00am
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The animated The Boy And The World is a hand-drawn stunner
By Noel Murray December 8, 2015 | 6:00am
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The holiday horror of Krampus isn’t naughty enough
By A.A. Dowd December 4, 2015 | 4:06pm
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Juliet Stevenson plays Mother Teresa in the too-plain biopic The Letters
By Noel Murray December 3, 2015 | 4:00pm
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James Dean befriends a photographer in the handsome biodrama Life
By Noel Murray December 3, 2015 | 3:00pm
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Michael Caine lends his star power to the bewitching curiosities of Youth
By Mike D'Angelo December 3, 2015 | 6:00am
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Macbeth amps up the violence, but loses the soul of the Bard’s tragedy
By Mike D'Angelo December 3, 2015 | 6:00am
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Maggie Smith looks for a Philomena of her own with The Lady In The Van
By Jesse Hassenger December 3, 2015 | 6:00am
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Spike Lee’s Chi-Raq is a fumble worth making
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 3, 2015 | 6:00am
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Wim Wenders’ Every Thing Will Be Fine could be prescribed as a sleep aid
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 3, 2015 | 6:00am
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Miguel Gomes’ trilogy Arabian Nights fights misery with imagination
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 3, 2015 | 6:00am
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Downhill Racer takes the whole unlikable-’70s-hero thing a little too far
By Mike D'Angelo December 2, 2015 | 6:00am
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In Hitchcock/Truffaut, top directors put their spin on a legendary interview
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 1, 2015 | 6:00am
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The lovely yuletide indie Christmas, Again gets every little detail right
By Mike D'Angelo December 1, 2015 | 6:00am
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A new Blu-ray anthology showcases the Quay brothers’ baffling brilliance
By Noel Murray November 25, 2015 | 6:00am
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Victor Frankenstein and his loyal assistant Igor get a boring revisionist remake
By Mike D'Angelo November 25, 2015 | 3:00am
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Pixar goes both simpler and stranger than usual with The Good Dinosaur
By A.A. Dowd November 24, 2015 | 6:18pm
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Janis Joplin, rock’s original reckless diva, is still thrilling and tragic in Little Girl Blue
By Noel Murray November 24, 2015 | 6:00am
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The Danish Girl can’t figure itself out
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 24, 2015 | 6:00am
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Creed is a worthy follow-up to both Rocky and Fruitvale Station
By Jesse Hassenger November 23, 2015 | 3:00pm
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Bob Dylan jokes, argues, and bullshits his way through the essential Dont Look Back
By Mike D'Angelo November 21, 2015 | 6:00am
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Mediterranea is a resonant drama about immigrants facing a chilly welcome
By Noel Murray November 19, 2015 | 2:00pm
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Improvements aside, Secret In Their Eyes is still a redundant remake
By A.A. Dowd November 19, 2015 | 6:00am
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Mustang is less a Turkish Virgin Suicides than a horror movie about patriarchy
By Mike D'Angelo November 19, 2015 | 6:00am
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Todd Haynes goes back to the ’50s with a rapturous new romance, Carol
By Mike D'Angelo November 19, 2015 | 6:00am
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Tom Hardy’s dual performance justifies the rote gangster drama Legend
By Noel Murray November 19, 2015 | 6:00am
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Seth Rogen grows up yet again in The Night Before
By Jesse Hassenger November 19, 2015 | 6:00am
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Mockingjay—Part 2 ends the Hunger Games series on a pretty dark note
By A.A. Dowd November 18, 2015 | 8:16pm
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In Cold Blood remains an inspired hybrid of documentary and noir
By Noel Murray November 18, 2015 | 6:00am
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It’s all fumbles in the gridiron tearjerker My All American
By A.A. Dowd November 12, 2015 | 8:55pm
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The 33 is kind of like The Martian, only terrestrial and dull
By Benjamin Mercer November 12, 2015 | 5:01pm
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Man Up only scores when Simon Pegg and Lake Bell rip into each other
By Mike D'Angelo November 12, 2015 | 5:00pm
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The star-studded Heist would be a big zero without Robert De Niro
By Noel Murray November 12, 2015 | 4:00pm
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Angelina Jolie’s By The Sea is devastatingly, ravishingly dull
By Katie Rife November 12, 2015 | 3:05pm
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Take Shelter from any gritty drama that casts celebs as homeless people
By Mike D'Angelo November 12, 2015 | 3:00pm
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An overqualified cast won’t make Love The Coopers a new holiday staple
By Jesse Hassenger November 12, 2015 | 6:00am
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Dangerous Men is a singular movie-going experience (in a good way)
By Katie Rife November 12, 2015 | 6:00am
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James White offers a rich exploration of an entitled asshole
By Noel Murray November 12, 2015 | 6:00am
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Entertainment gives Neil Hamburger the alienating star vehicle he deserves
By A.A. Dowd November 12, 2015 | 6:00am
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Code Unknown is the least hectoring film Michael Haneke has ever made
By Mike D'Angelo November 11, 2015 | 6:00am
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The Peanuts Movie mostly preserves the voice of Charles Schulz
By Jesse Hassenger November 5, 2015 | 6:00am
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Miss You Already is tasteful about everything but the jokes
By Tasha Robinson November 5, 2015 | 6:00am
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The gripping Spotlight pays tribute to the daily grind of journalism
By A.A. Dowd November 5, 2015 | 6:00am
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Saoirse Ronan gives a winning performance in the rich romance Brooklyn
By Noel Murray November 5, 2015 | 6:00am
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Unique and monumental, Out 1 is the most paranoid movie ever made
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 5, 2015 | 6:00am
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Trumbo is a Hollywood history lesson with a slippery grasp on its subject
By Tasha Robinson November 5, 2015 | 6:00am
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Theeb puts Jordanian cinema on the map with a simplistic adventure yarn
By Mike D'Angelo November 4, 2015 | 6:00am
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Two old friends argue about their dads in the tense, blunt doc A Nazi Legacy
By Noel Murray November 4, 2015 | 6:00am
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Spectre is the most traditional—and uneven—of the recent Bond films
By A.A. Dowd November 3, 2015 | 9:03pm
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Frederick Wiseman’s In Jackson Heights reveals a lively cultural cross-section
By Mike D'Angelo November 3, 2015 | 6:00am
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If Scouts Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse is the future, maybe the world should end
By Katie Rife October 29, 2015 | 3:32pm
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Our Brand Is Crisis twists a hard doc into a soft Sandra Bullock vehicle
By A.A. Dowd October 29, 2015 | 5:00am
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Love is another visually striking trip up director Gaspar Noé’s ass
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 29, 2015 | 5:00am
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Burnt can’t handle the heat, should have stayed out of the kitchen
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 29, 2015 | 5:00am
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A pro-life pastor pivots to an anti-gun message in The Armor Of Light
By Noel Murray October 29, 2015 | 5:00am
