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Love & Mercy picks Brian Wilson’s brain, finds strengths in his ears
By Erik Adams June 4, 2015 | 5:00am
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Fassbinder’s The Merchant Of Four Seasons is a fascinatingly uncool early work
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 3, 2015 | 5:00am
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Roy Andersson closes his trilogy with another striking study of humanity
By A.A. Dowd June 2, 2015 | 5:42pm
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Entourage is just like its vacuous small-screen inspiration, only longer
By A.A. Dowd June 2, 2015 | 6:00am
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The Secret Life Of Marilyn Monroe
By Molly Eichel May 30, 2015 | 5:00am
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David Oyelowo’s bravura performance anchors HBO’s unsettling drama Nightingale
By Joshua Alston May 29, 2015 | 5:00am
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Cameron Crowe heads for Hawaii with the clumsy but heartfelt Aloha
By A.A. Dowd May 28, 2015 | 8:00pm
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Sensitive direction lifts I Believe In Unicorns above its clichéd indie elements
By Katie Rife May 28, 2015 | 3:00pm
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Banned in India, Unfreedom hasn’t much more to offer than provocation
By Adam Nayman May 28, 2015 | 2:00pm
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Alas, Survivor is just a lame Milla Jovovich vehicle, not a Destiny’s Child biopic
By Keith Uhlich May 28, 2015 | 1:00pm
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It’s the Earth versus The Rock in the tension-free San Andreas
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 28, 2015 | 5:00am
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When Marnie Was There is Studio Ghibli’s emotional but mechanical goodbye
By Jesse Hassenger May 28, 2015 | 5:00am
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The junkie drama Heaven Knows What has authenticity and style to spare
By Mike D'Angelo May 28, 2015 | 5:00am
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Results offers a refreshing, unpredictable take on the indie rom-com
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 28, 2015 | 5:00am
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Gemma Bovery is essential viewing... for Gemma Arterton fans
By Jesse Hassenger May 28, 2015 | 5:00am
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Tu Dors Nicole is a summer movie about the melancholy tedium of summer
By A.A. Dowd May 28, 2015 | 5:00am
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Costa-Gavras’ Z follow-ups continued his political-thriller streak
By Mike D'Angelo May 27, 2015 | 5:00am
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Watch any actual Grace Kelly movie instead of the vapid Grace Of Monaco
By Gwen Ihnat May 25, 2015 | 5:00am
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The new Poltergeist can’t outrun its source material
By Jesse Hassenger May 22, 2015 | 2:34pm
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Aloft is a mopey bore, regardless if you figure out where it’s headed
By A.A. Dowd May 21, 2015 | 5:00am
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Sunshine Superman doesn’t reach the great heights its daredevil subject did
By Keith Uhlich May 21, 2015 | 5:00am
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Two army trainees (very) slowly fall for each other in Love At First Fight
By Jesse Hassenger May 21, 2015 | 5:00am
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As with all trolls, it’s best to ignore The Human Centipede III
By Katie Rife May 21, 2015 | 5:00am
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The Farewell Party tackles the euthanasia issue with condescending shtick
By Vadim Rizov May 21, 2015 | 5:00am
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Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight has more pathos than laughs
By Mike D'Angelo May 20, 2015 | 5:00am
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Two vintage Roger Corman thrillers put an Oscar winner to good use
By Adam Nayman May 20, 2015 | 5:00am
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Disney’s Tomorrowland realizes a bright future dreamt up in the past
By A.A. Dowd May 19, 2015 | 8:07pm
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Güeros wanders, charmingly if somewhat aimlessly, through late-century Mexico
By Adam Nayman May 19, 2015 | 5:00am
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Area 51 offers a close encounter of the very familiar kind
By A.A. Dowd May 15, 2015 | 7:17pm
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L For Leisure is either a bad grad-school comedy or a really dry spoof of one
By A.A. Dowd May 14, 2015 | 5:24pm
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The time-travel rules of Time Lapse are both thought-provoking and stupid
By Jesse Hassenger May 14, 2015 | 4:00pm
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Ethan Hawke broods endlessly through the anti-drone screed Good Kill
By A.A. Dowd May 14, 2015 | 3:17pm
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Dark Star lets you meet the man who birthed the Alien
By Josh Modell May 14, 2015 | 3:00pm
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Our Man In Tehran is Canada’s more accurate rejoinder to Argo
By Kyle Ryan May 14, 2015 | 3:00pm
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Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle Pound of Flesh is a less-silly Crank
By Adam Nayman May 14, 2015 | 3:00pm
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The well-acted Animals is an addiction movie like plenty of others
By Jesse Hassenger May 14, 2015 | 2:00pm
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The Connection is a cops-and-crooks movie you’ve seen many times before
By Mike D'Angelo May 14, 2015 | 5:00am
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Michael Fassbender is a bounty hunter on a mission in the poky, odd oater Slow West
By Mike D'Angelo May 14, 2015 | 5:00am
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In The Name Of My Daughter is another truth-based gem from André Téchiné
By Adam Nayman May 14, 2015 | 5:00am
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Amy Berg and Nicole Holofcener take on the paperback thrills of Every Secret Thing
By Adam Nayman May 14, 2015 | 5:00am
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Pitch Perfect 2 is an encore, a postscript, and a fresh start all at once
By Jesse Hassenger May 14, 2015 | 5:00am
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Blythe Danner transcends the indie mediocrity of I’ll See You In My Dreams
By Keith Uhlich May 14, 2015 | 5:00am
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With Fury Road, Mad Max roars triumphantly back into theaters
By A.A. Dowd May 13, 2015 | 7:53pm
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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window... is as wacky as its title
By Mike D'Angelo May 7, 2015 | 3:00pm
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Dolph Lundgren and Tony Jaa take on sex traffickers in Skin Trade
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 7, 2015 | 2:00pm
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A Noble biopic could have used the pop fizz of Danny Boyle
By Jesse Hassenger May 7, 2015 | 1:00pm
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5 Flights Up is really several movies, a couple of them quite charming
By Mike D'Angelo May 7, 2015 | 5:00am
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Saint Laurent is an imperfect but often poetic take on the life of a fashion mogul
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 7, 2015 | 5:00am
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Maggie is not what anyone would expect from a Schwarzenegger zombie movie
By A.A. Dowd May 7, 2015 | 5:00am
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The D Train is a much bolder Jack Black comedy than its trailer lets on
By Mike D'Angelo May 7, 2015 | 5:00am
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The restored Apu Trilogy reintroduces Satyajit Ray
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 7, 2015 | 5:00am
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There’s a little too much Scorsese in the bad-cop documentary The Seven Five
By Keith Uhlich May 7, 2015 | 5:00am
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Sofia Vergara and Reese Witherspoon can’t heat up the tepid Hot Pursuit
By Katie Rife May 7, 2015 | 5:00am
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Journey To The West could be the last time Tsai Ming-Liang slows life to a crawl
By A.A. Dowd May 5, 2015 | 5:00am
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The Caroll Spinney story is told sweetly but not inventively by I Am Big Bird
By Jesse Hassenger May 5, 2015 | 5:00am
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Daydreams become nightmares in Quentin Dupieux’s Reality
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 30, 2015 | 5:00am
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U.K. crime drama Hyena is uncompromising in its brutality, but to what end?
By Mike D'Angelo April 30, 2015 | 5:00am
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Viggo Mortensen takes another long, mythic walk in Far From Men
By Adam Nayman April 30, 2015 | 5:00am
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Helen Hunt writes and directs herself into a corner with Ride
By Jesse Hassenger April 30, 2015 | 5:00am
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Kristen Wiig puts SNL weirdness in a serious context with Welcome To Me
By Mike D'Angelo April 30, 2015 | 5:00am
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Carey Mulligan stars in a book report on Far From The Madding Crowd
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 30, 2015 | 5:00am
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Jean-Pierre Melville hit the ground running with a moving debut, Le Silence De La Mer
By Mike D'Angelo April 29, 2015 | 5:00am
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Joss Whedon grapples with the franchise obligations of Avengers: Age Of Ultron
By A.A. Dowd April 28, 2015 | 7:14pm
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Fashion-focused Iris is a modest late effort from documentary legend Albert Maysles
By Vadim Rizov April 28, 2015 | 5:00am
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John Travolta mumbles his way through the inert thriller The Forger
By Mike D'Angelo April 23, 2015 | 5:00pm
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Little Boy is a shockingly miscalculated World War II fable
By A.A. Dowd April 23, 2015 | 5:00am
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Nick Kroll softens his elastic shtick for the fatally mild Adult Beginners
By A.A. Dowd April 23, 2015 | 5:00am
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Misery Loves Comedy asks whether the two things are always linked
By Josh Modell April 23, 2015 | 5:00am
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Kung Fu Killer is a wildly entertaining slice of Hong Kong action
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 23, 2015 | 5:00am
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The Water Diviner is a chintzy historical epic from director-star Russell Crowe
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 23, 2015 | 5:00am
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There are no Liam Neeson heroics in the fact-based hostage drama 24 Days
By Adam Nayman April 23, 2015 | 5:00am
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The Age Of Adaline plays like an adaptation of a book that never existed
By Jesse Hassenger April 23, 2015 | 5:00am
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Jean Renoir’s color masterpiece The River comes to Blu-ray
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 22, 2015 | 5:00am
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Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten hauntingly remembers a lost era of Cambodian rock
By Jason Heller April 21, 2015 | 5:00am
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The Stalinist serial-killer flick Child 44 strains for seriousness
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 17, 2015 | 6:34pm
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Even with a few extra laughs, Paul Blart still can’t save the day
By Jesse Hassenger April 17, 2015 | 4:21pm
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Unfriended ingeniously commits to its laptop horror gimmick
By A.A. Dowd April 16, 2015 | 4:58pm
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The Man With The Iron Fists gets a tedious direct-to-video sequel
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 16, 2015 | 2:00pm
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The Dead Lands views a rarely explored culture through a dusty narrative lens
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 16, 2015 | 5:00am
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The Reconstruction Of William Zero is kind of a poor man’s Upstream Color
By Keith Uhlich April 16, 2015 | 5:00am
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James Franco and Jonah Hill get serious for the true crime of True Story
By A.A. Dowd April 16, 2015 | 5:00am
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The Oscar-nominated Tangerines is more interesting before the bullets start flying
By Adam Nayman April 16, 2015 | 5:00am
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Chris Messina moves into directing with the unexceptional Alex Of Venice
By Mike D'Angelo April 16, 2015 | 5:00am
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In Félix & Meira, the star of Fill The Void tackles Orthodox tradition again
By Mike D'Angelo April 16, 2015 | 5:00am
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The Monsters sequel is a clichéd macho fantasy disguised as a monster movie
By Katie Rife April 16, 2015 | 5:00am
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Carol Reed’s coded IRA drama Odd Man Out has the look but not the feel of noir
By Mike D'Angelo April 15, 2015 | 5:00am
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Real soldiers reenact the horrors of Vietnam in the documentary In Country
By Adam Nayman April 9, 2015 | 5:00pm
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A Bollywood veteran makes an awkward American debut with Broken Horses
By Mike D'Angelo April 9, 2015 | 4:00pm
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Black Souls is a familiar but effective addition to the Italian Mafia genre
By Adam Nayman April 9, 2015 | 3:00pm
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Dior And I is an entertaining glimpse behind the curtain of a fashion empire
By Keith Uhlich April 9, 2015 | 2:00pm
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Simon Pegg can’t bring humanity to the hit man nonsense of Kill Me Three Times
By Jesse Hassenger April 9, 2015 | 1:00pm
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Rebels Of The Neon God both kicks off and summarizes the career of its director
By Mike D'Angelo April 9, 2015 | 5:00am
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Ryan Gosling’s Lost River blurs the line between homage and theft
By A.A. Dowd April 9, 2015 | 5:00am
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Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart shine in Olivier Assayas’ Clouds Of Sils Maria
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 9, 2015 | 5:00am
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Ex Machina is smart sci-fi that loses its way
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 9, 2015 | 5:00am
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Desert Dancer is an inspirational tale as bland and forgettable as its title
By Katie Rife April 9, 2015 | 5:00am
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Nicholas Sparks takes one step forward, one step back with The Longest Ride
By Jesse Hassenger April 9, 2015 | 5:00am
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Before A Separation, Asghar Farhadi made the superb seaside drama About Elly
By A.A. Dowd April 7, 2015 | 5:00am
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If There Be Thorns and Seeds Of Yesterday try to catch that camp magic
By Genevieve Valentine April 3, 2015 | 5:00am
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Clive Owen and Morgan Freeman are the Last Knights of this humorless slog
By Adam Nayman April 2, 2015 | 4:00pm
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There’s a little Tarantino and a lot of Spike Lee in the mediocre The Girl Is In Trouble
By Keith Uhlich April 2, 2015 | 3:00pm
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Dakota Fanning spends a lot of time looking sad in Effie Gray
By Jesse Hassenger April 2, 2015 | 2:00pm
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5 To 7 is the prime time for romance, says this love story fit for primetime
By Mike D'Angelo April 2, 2015 | 1:00pm
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Furious 7 says goodbye to Paul Walker with wall-to-wall action absurdity
By Jesse Hassenger April 2, 2015 | 5:00am
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Bill Plympton disguises a long short as a short feature with Cheatin’
By Jesse Hassenger April 2, 2015 | 5:00am
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Ned Rifle concludes the odd trilogy Hal Hartley began with Henry Fool
By Mike D'Angelo April 2, 2015 | 5:00am
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Lambert & Stamp is a glossy, spotty piece of rock history
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 2, 2015 | 5:00am
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Two teens reach for their Hoop Dreams in this nonfiction masterpiece
By A.A. Dowd April 1, 2015 | 5:00am
