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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
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Woman In Gold gives a complicated true story the Weinstein treatment
By A.A. Dowd March 31, 2015 | 5:00am
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Scientology doc Going Clear eviscerates the faithful, famous, and greedy
By Joshua Alston March 27, 2015 | 5:00am
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Leighton Meester helps sell the overwritten Like Sunday, Like Rain
By Jesse Hassenger March 26, 2015 | 3:00pm
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Man From Reno is a fine addition to the San Francisco thriller canon
By Adam Nayman March 26, 2015 | 2:00pm
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Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper reunite for the misjudged Serena
By Vadim Rizov March 26, 2015 | 5:00am
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DreamWorks warps an offbeat kids’ book into the typically generic Home
By Jesse Hassenger March 26, 2015 | 5:00am
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Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart rush and bluff their way through Get Hard
By Jesse Hassenger March 26, 2015 | 5:00am
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White God is a mongrel of a dog movie, madly mixing genres and tones
By A.A. Dowd March 26, 2015 | 5:00am
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With The Salt Of The Earth, Wim Wenders takes a snapshot of a famous shutterbug
By Keith Uhlich March 26, 2015 | 5:00am
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The Riot Club offers nothing but the antics of rich young assholes
By Mike D'Angelo March 26, 2015 | 5:00am
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More so even than Larry Clark’s other movies, Marfa Girl just feels like bad porn
By Mike D'Angelo March 26, 2015 | 5:00am
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Abel Ferrara envisions hell as a sex scandal in Welcome To New York
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 26, 2015 | 5:00am
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While We’re Young is essentially Noah Baumbach’s Neighbors
By A.A. Dowd March 26, 2015 | 5:00am
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Three early films from Errol Morris reveal how he reshaped documentary
By Mike D'Angelo March 25, 2015 | 5:00am
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All of Rowan Atkinson’s bits are on display in Mr. Bean: The Whole Bean
By Jennifer Wood March 24, 2015 | 6:50pm
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The Kidnapping Of Michel Houellebecq is a fans- (and critics-) only meta-comedy
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 24, 2015 | 5:00am
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From the writers of God’s Not Dead comes the ludicrous soap opera Do You Believe?
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 20, 2015 | 6:59pm
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Eugène Green’s La Sapienza is art history with warmth and personality
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 20, 2015 | 5:00am
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Sex surrogacy drama She’s Lost Control keeps its cards close
By Kiva Reardon March 19, 2015 | 3:00pm
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Growing Up And Other Lies is a tired trek across Manhattan and through clichés
By Mike D'Angelo March 19, 2015 | 2:00pm
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Backcountry is a wilderness thriller weakened by its human elements
By Katie Rife March 19, 2015 | 1:00pm
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Sean Penn bulks up for The Gunman, a misfire from the director of Taken
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 19, 2015 | 5:00am
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Viggo Mortensen loses himself in the droll, mysterious Jauja
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 19, 2015 | 5:00am
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The Divergent sequel could use more style and less fidelity
By Jesse Hassenger March 19, 2015 | 5:00am
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Tracers is reasonably fun… for a Taylor Lautner parkour movie
By Jesse Hassenger March 19, 2015 | 5:00am
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The unclassifiable Spring makes moon eyes with monsters
By A.A. Dowd March 19, 2015 | 5:00am
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As the aging pop star of Danny Collins, Al Pacino is better than he’s been in years
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 19, 2015 | 5:00am
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Ride The Pink Horse hints at the great director Robert Montgomery might have become
By Mike D'Angelo March 18, 2015 | 5:00am
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Kumiko The Treasure Hunter dramatizes an urban legend of Fargo fandom
By Mike D'Angelo March 17, 2015 | 5:00am
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Amour Fou finds dry comedy in a famous double suicide
By A.A. Dowd March 17, 2015 | 5:00am
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Champs follows three big-name boxers from poverty to the top (and back)
By Josh Modell March 12, 2015 | 5:00pm
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Ghosts, religion, and quirky mental illness blend poorly in Walter
By Jesse Hassenger March 12, 2015 | 4:00pm
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There’s maybe a single laugh in the wretched entirety of Home Sweet Hell
By Mike D'Angelo March 12, 2015 | 3:00pm
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The Wrecking Crew is a brisk, undramatic portrait of unsung musical legends
By Jason Heller March 12, 2015 | 2:00pm
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3 Hearts never pumps enough lifeblood into its contrived love triangle
By Kiva Reardon March 12, 2015 | 1:00pm
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Liam Neeson rips up New York City in Run All Night
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 12, 2015 | 5:00am
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The thrilling Cymbeline re-teams Ethan Hawke and William Shakespeare
By Keith Uhlich March 12, 2015 | 5:00am
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Despite its respected director, The Cobbler offers more noxious, lowbrow Adam Sandler
By A.A. Dowd March 12, 2015 | 5:00am
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Disney’s live-action Cinderella is pretty but empty
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 12, 2015 | 5:00am
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It Follows is a new classic of both horror and coming-of-age cinema
By A.A. Dowd March 12, 2015 | 5:00am
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Ethan Hawke pays tribute to a great teacher in Seymour: An Introduction
By Mike D'Angelo March 12, 2015 | 5:00am
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In style but not story, The Soft Skin is Truffaut going Hitchcock
By Mike D'Angelo March 11, 2015 | 5:00am
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Chappie suggests that District 9 director Neill Blomkamp could use a hard reset
By A.A. Dowd March 5, 2015 | 8:12pm
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Lost Soul swaps war stories from 1996’s troubled flop The Island Of Dr. Moreau
By Alex McLevy March 5, 2015 | 6:00pm
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The end times are a good time for boring nobility in These Final Hours
By Vadim Rizov March 5, 2015 | 5:00pm
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Kidnapping Mr. Heineken is as lousy as its lager namesake
By Keith Uhlich March 5, 2015 | 4:00pm
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New York romance X/Y is both terrible and terrific, depending on the scene
By Mike D'Angelo March 5, 2015 | 3:00pm
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Vince Vaughn goes soft again in the faux-raunchy Unfinished Business
By Jesse Hassenger March 5, 2015 | 2:51pm
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Faults slowly, skillfully transforms from one kind of movie to another
By Mike D'Angelo March 5, 2015 | 2:00pm
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A small-time swindler loses his mind in the darkly funny Buzzard
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 5, 2015 | 6:00am
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Forest Whitaker is a parolee trying to start over in Two Men In Town
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 5, 2015 | 6:00am
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This is, indeed, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
By A.A. Dowd March 5, 2015 | 6:00am
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Merchants Of Doubt is an artless, toothless look at the expert-for-hire industry
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 5, 2015 | 6:00am
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Captive wasn’t the breakthrough many expected of its Pinoy director
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 4, 2015 | 6:00am
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The Lesson could use a lesson in dramatic restraint
By A.A. Dowd March 3, 2015 | 6:00am
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You won’t need 100 percent of your brain to dismiss The Lazarus Effect
By A.A. Dowd February 26, 2015 | 8:05pm
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My Life Directed By Nicolas Winding Refn is a familiar account of an unusual film
By Katie Rife February 26, 2015 | 4:00pm
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Bluebird bears an unflattering resemblance to a much better film
By Mike D'Angelo February 26, 2015 | 3:00pm
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Everly puts a scantily clad Salma Hayek on the warpath, but the fun is canned
By Vadim Rizov February 26, 2015 | 2:00pm
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Will Smith tries his hand at being Cary Grant in Focus
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 26, 2015 | 6:00am
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Mads Mikkelsen takes revenge in the West in The Salvation
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 26, 2015 | 6:00am
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David Cronenberg draws his Maps To The Stars in broad strokes
By A.A. Dowd February 26, 2015 | 6:00am
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The Hunting Ground takes a hard look at campus rape and colleges that condone it
By Jesse Hassenger February 26, 2015 | 6:00am
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’71 was a dangerous year to roam the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland
By Mike D'Angelo February 26, 2015 | 6:00am
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Fellini Satyricon is the Italian director at his most decadent and tedious
By Mike D'Angelo February 25, 2015 | 6:00am
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Dead bodies and screwball romance mix beautifully in Wild Canaries
By A.A. Dowd February 24, 2015 | 6:00am
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Hot Tub Time Machine 2 goes back to the Jacuzzi with diminishing returns
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 19, 2015 | 5:16pm
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The most memorable thing about The DUFF is its ugly-duckling heroine
By Katie Rife February 19, 2015 | 2:56pm
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An Oscar-nominated anthology offers 6 darkly comic Wild Tales
By A.A. Dowd February 19, 2015 | 6:00am
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Approaching The Elephant roams the chaotic halls of a free school
By A.A. Dowd February 19, 2015 | 6:00am
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Adam Green plays fast and loose with found footage in Digging Up The Marrow
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 19, 2015 | 6:00am
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There’s nothing remotely wild about the indie mope-fest All The Wilderness
By Mike D'Angelo February 19, 2015 | 6:00am
