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Jason Bateman unwraps his dark side in smart-then-dumb thriller The Gift
By A.A. Dowd August 6, 2015 | 5:00am
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Jonathan Demme gets back to his roots with Ricki And The Flash
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 6, 2015 | 5:00am
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Criterion offers two distinct versions of one terrific noir, Night And The City
By Mike D'Angelo August 5, 2015 | 5:00am
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The Weinsteins sneak Jeunet’s The Young And Prodigious T.S. Spivet into theaters
By Jesse Hassenger August 3, 2015 | 5:19pm
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With Counting, Jem Cohen watches the world through a camera lens
By Adam Nayman July 30, 2015 | 3:00pm
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I Am Chris Farley succeeds more as loving tribute than documentary
By Kyle Ryan July 30, 2015 | 2:08pm
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The Kindergarten Teacher has some very strange ideas about the creative process
By Mike D'Angelo July 30, 2015 | 2:00pm
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Jenny’s Wedding would’ve been the hippest gay-themed indie of 1995
By Noel Murray July 30, 2015 | 1:00pm
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The End Of The Tour captures five days in the life of David Foster Wallace
By A.A. Dowd July 30, 2015 | 5:00am
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Best Of Enemies captures the moment political commentary got personal
By Noel Murray July 30, 2015 | 5:00am
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Rogue Nation preserves the stand-alone fun of the Mission: Impossible series
By A.A. Dowd July 30, 2015 | 5:00am
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A LEGO Brickumentary is much more of an infomercial than that other Lego movie
By Jesse Hassenger July 30, 2015 | 5:00am
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The Erotic Rites Of Frankenstein is a stitched-up series of oddball scenes
By Noel Murray July 29, 2015 | 5:00am
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Ed Helms leads a cover-band version of Vacation
By Jesse Hassenger July 28, 2015 | 3:58pm
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Brando’s extraordinary career gets an ordinary treatment in Listen To Me Marlon
By Mike D'Angelo July 28, 2015 | 5:00am
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The Vatican Tapes is a demonic possession movie that lacks spirit
By Noel Murray July 24, 2015 | 5:00am
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The John Green adaptation Paper Towns has a hole in its center
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 23, 2015 | 7:41pm
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Fiction and nonfiction blend ineffectively in the gang drama Five Star
By Mike D'Angelo July 23, 2015 | 4:00pm
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Staten Island Summer takes Saturday Night Live to summer camp
By Jesse Hassenger July 23, 2015 | 4:00pm
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A Gay Girl In Damascus tells a fascinating story, but gets sidetracked
By Noel Murray July 23, 2015 | 3:00pm
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Cobie Smulders copes with an Unexpected pregnancy in this very mild indie
By Mike D'Angelo July 23, 2015 | 1:00pm
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Samba is as risible as The Intouchables
By Keith Uhlich July 23, 2015 | 5:00am
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Pixels fails to make a case for Adam Sandler as a nerd
By Jesse Hassenger July 23, 2015 | 5:00am
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Phoenix is a postwar Vertigo, a noir psychodrama for the ages
By A.A. Dowd July 23, 2015 | 5:00am
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Pedro Costa returns to the dreamworld with Horse Money
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 23, 2015 | 5:00am
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Boxing drama Southpaw isn’t worth the gym time Jake Gyllenhaal put into it
By A.A. Dowd July 23, 2015 | 5:00am
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A young Daniel Day-Lewis is one of many pleasures in My Beautiful Laundrette
By Mike D'Angelo July 22, 2015 | 5:00am
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The only thing funny about Joe Dirt 2 is that it exists
By Nathan Rabin July 17, 2015 | 2:59pm
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Viola Davis can’t quite compensate for how badly Lila & Eve telegraphs its twist
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 16, 2015 | 5:00pm
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Alléluia is just another take on the Lonely Hearts Killers rampage
By Mike D'Angelo July 16, 2015 | 3:00pm
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Woody Allen attempts another perfect murder in the middling Irrational Man
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 16, 2015 | 5:00am
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A superb young cast brings The Stanford Prison Experiment to queasy life
By A.A. Dowd July 16, 2015 | 5:00am
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The Look Of Silence is a powerful, vital companion piece to The Act Of Killing
By A.A. Dowd July 16, 2015 | 5:00am
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Ian McKellen is an aged Sherlock in the stolid Mr. Holmes
By Jesse Hassenger July 16, 2015 | 5:00am
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Amy Schumer and Judd Apatow invigorate the rom-com with Trainwreck
By Jesse Hassenger July 16, 2015 | 5:00am
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Ant-Man builds a smaller, lighter Marvel movie
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 15, 2015 | 5:44pm
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Here Is Your Life, declares the overlong first feature from Jan Troell
By Mike D'Angelo July 15, 2015 | 5:00am
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Court tackles the Indian legal system through the lives of its participants
By Mike D'Angelo July 14, 2015 | 5:00am
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Horror fans will choke on the found-footage clichés of The Gallows
By A.A. Dowd July 9, 2015 | 5:00pm
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Stations Of The Cross is a passion play that puts fundamentalism on blast
By A.A. Dowd July 9, 2015 | 4:00pm
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What We Did On Our Holiday captures the comic magic of really young kids
By Mike D'Angelo July 9, 2015 | 3:00pm
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Do I Sound Gay?, asks the director of this brisk doc on the queer community
By Keith Uhlich July 9, 2015 | 2:00pm
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Self/less is a bland mind-swap thriller from the director of The Cell
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 9, 2015 | 5:00am
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Nicole Kidman wants her kids back in the muddled mystery Strangerland
By Jesse Hassenger July 9, 2015 | 5:00am
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Robin Williams deserved a better swan song than Boulevard
By Mike D'Angelo July 9, 2015 | 5:00am
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The Minions from Despicable Me caper through a forced franchise extension
By Jesse Hassenger July 9, 2015 | 5:00am
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Tangerine is the frenetic transgender iPhone Christmas movie of the year
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 9, 2015 | 5:00am
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Advantage: Andy Samberg, in the ridiculous 7 Days In Hell
By Alex McLevy July 8, 2015 | 5:00am
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Save yourselves from the insufferable Manhattan lovers of In Stereo
By Keith Uhlich July 2, 2015 | 4:00pm
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Faith Of Our Fathers finds misguided evangelical purpose in the Vietnam War
By Vadim Rizov July 2, 2015 | 3:55pm
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A charming romance gets menaced by giant wasps in Stung
By Jesse Hassenger July 2, 2015 | 3:00pm
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Jackie & Ryan hopes the folkie romance formula will work more than Once
By Jesse Hassenger July 2, 2015 | 2:00pm
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Jimmy’s Hall is essentially Ken Loach’s Footloose
By Mike D'Angelo July 2, 2015 | 5:00am
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The director of Winter’s Bone goes back to the Ozarks in Stray Dog
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 2, 2015 | 5:00am
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Amy takes a smart, nuanced look at Amy Winehouse’s brief life
By Kyle Ryan July 2, 2015 | 5:00am
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Cartel Land examines anti-drug vigilantes on both sides of the Mexican border
By Mike D'Angelo July 2, 2015 | 5:00am
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Maybe ignore our grade and see Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders for yourself
By Mike D'Angelo July 1, 2015 | 5:00am
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Genisys travels back in time to reboot the Terminator franchise
By A.A. Dowd June 30, 2015 | 6:04pm
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Les Blank’s long-lost A Poem Is A Naked Person tags along with a folk star
By Adam Nayman June 30, 2015 | 5:00am
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Mala Mala offers an intimate glimpse into Puerto Rico’s transgender community
By Adam Nayman June 30, 2015 | 5:00am
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Magic Mike XXL gives the people what they want
By Katie Rife June 29, 2015 | 7:16pm
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Netflix’s searing Nina Simone doc explores musical evolution and racial stagnation
By Joshua Alston June 26, 2015 | 5:00am
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A movie as bizarre as the military mutt flick Max has no business being dull
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 25, 2015 | 5:00pm
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The viscerally weird Felt belongs equally to its director and star
By Jenni Miller June 25, 2015 | 5:00pm
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The Little Death awkwardly entwines five comedy sketches about sex
By Mike D'Angelo June 25, 2015 | 4:00pm
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Runoff is pretty engrossing for a drama directed by a biochemist
By Katie Rife June 25, 2015 | 3:00pm
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Advantageous finds eerie plausibility in science fiction
By Jesse Hassenger June 25, 2015 | 2:00pm
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Heist movie 7 Minutes has lots of flashbacks, no voice
By Jesse Hassenger June 25, 2015 | 2:00pm
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3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets examines an all-too-familiar American crime
By Adam Nayman June 25, 2015 | 1:00pm
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Hip-hop fashion is too vast a topic for Fresh Dressed to cover in 82 minutes
By Nathan Rabin June 25, 2015 | 1:00pm
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Benicio Del Toro plays Pablo Escobar in the dull, then exciting Paradise Lost
By Mike D'Angelo June 25, 2015 | 5:00am
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Ted 2 gets filthier but less charming
By A.A. Dowd June 25, 2015 | 5:00am
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The Princess Of France turns Shakespeare into chamber music
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 25, 2015 | 5:00am
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Big Game doesn’t live up to its intriguingly ludicrous premise
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 25, 2015 | 5:00am
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Despite its fictional story, A Little Chaos is as boring as any biopic
By A.A. Dowd June 25, 2015 | 5:00am
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Batkid Begins milks a touching human-interest story for everything it’s worth
By Keith Uhlich June 25, 2015 | 5:00am
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After a sluggish start, The Bridge becomes a war film for the history books
By Mike D'Angelo June 24, 2015 | 5:00am
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Mark Duplass’ twisted two-hander Creep is more admirable than enjoyable
By Alex McLevy June 23, 2015 | 5:00am
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Joe Dante returns with the underwhelming Burying The Ex
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 18, 2015 | 5:00pm
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Gabriel could be Rory Culkin’s breakout role, if enough people see it
By Mike D'Angelo June 18, 2015 | 3:00pm
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Mark Ruffalo demands near-infinite patience in Infinitely Polar Bear
By Jesse Hassenger June 18, 2015 | 5:00am
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Al Pacino really acts again, but deserves better material than Manglehorn
By Mike D'Angelo June 18, 2015 | 5:00am
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Sundance breakout Dope is messy but energetic
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 18, 2015 | 5:00am
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Michael Winterbottom tackles the Amanda Knox case with The Face Of An Angel
By Jesse Hassenger June 18, 2015 | 5:00am
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Eden powerfully evokes two decades of life and musical obsession
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 18, 2015 | 5:00am
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Like its characters, the indie sex comedy The Overnight is full of surprises
By A.A. Dowd June 18, 2015 | 5:00am
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Inside Out will inspire tears of joy in parents and Pixar fans alike
By A.A. Dowd June 17, 2015 | 9:04pm
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Criterion packages an arthouse classic with two talky cousins
By Mike D'Angelo June 17, 2015 | 5:00am
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The Tribe is an audacious experiment in sign-language cinema
By A.A. Dowd June 16, 2015 | 2:00pm
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“Courtney killed Kurt”: The legend continues in Soaked In Bleach
By Josh Modell June 11, 2015 | 5:00am
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Things get ugly in The 11th Hour of this grim Kim Basinger vehicle
By Adam Nayman June 11, 2015 | 5:00am
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The Yes Men Are Revolting in a doc about how hard it is to make a difference
By Mike D'Angelo June 11, 2015 | 5:00am
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Dylan Thomas gets the tastefully pointless treatment in Set Fire To The Stars
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 11, 2015 | 5:00am
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Mia Wasikowska plays Madame Bovary in a passable take on the great novel
By Mike D'Angelo June 11, 2015 | 5:00am
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Me And Earl And The Dying Girl is a teen film-buff’s dream, for better or worse
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 11, 2015 | 5:00am
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The Wolfpack paints an incomplete portrait of a family of shut-ins
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 11, 2015 | 5:00am
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Live From New York!, it’s another retelling of Saturday Night Live history
By Jesse Hassenger June 11, 2015 | 5:00am
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Jurassic World goes back to the park, but the danger is missing
By A.A. Dowd June 10, 2015 | 8:52pm
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We Are Still Here tries to scare the past off you
By Alex McLevy June 4, 2015 | 4:00pm
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Jackie Chan deserves better than this in-name-only Police Story sequel
By Adam Nayman June 4, 2015 | 3:00pm
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Charlie’s Country is a magnetic showcase for Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 4, 2015 | 2:00pm
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Blind is a playful, moving directorial debut
By A.A. Dowd June 4, 2015 | 2:00pm
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A veteran character actress almost gets her due in Insidious: Chapter 3
By Katie Rife June 4, 2015 | 2:00pm
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Melissa McCarthy and Paul Feig continue their genre tourism with Spy
By Jesse Hassenger June 4, 2015 | 5:00am
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Famous wartime memoir Testament Of Youth gets a boring BBC adaptation
By Keith Uhlich June 4, 2015 | 5:00am
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Robert Duvall returns to directing with the clumsy Texas soap opera Wild Horses
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 4, 2015 | 5:00am
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Amy Berg’s An Open Secret mishandles a deadly serious issue
By Mike D'Angelo June 4, 2015 | 5:00am
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The Nightmare uses recreations to capture the terrors of sleep paralysis
By Mike D'Angelo June 4, 2015 | 5:00am
